RENRE LLC
BROOKLYN, NY

Our cookies are there to make it easier for you to use renre.com. They allow us to count visitor numbers, find out how visitors use the website, and help us make changes to the website so it functions more effectively for users. Lloyd’s is the world’s largest subscription market and has strong operating performance, strong capitalisation, and strong financial flexibility, which is reflected in its financial rating. The Lloyd’s Franchise Board, formally constituted on January 1, 2003, establishes guidelines and operates a business planning and monitoring process for all Lloyd’s syndicates. RenaissanceRe Syndicate Management Limited ensures that, as a minimum, these guidelines are met by Syndicate 1458. Mr. Tillman serves as President of WeatherPredict Consulting Inc., a U.S.-based RenaissanceRe affiliate that provides intelligence on natural perils to a range of entities. WeatherPredict focuses on modeling natural hazards as well as quantifying their effects on the range of exposures at risk. Mr. Tillman leads a dedicated team of scientists with specialties ranging across oceanography, meteorology, wind engineering, aerodynamics and earthquake risk. He has been a key participant in the development of the StormStruck exhibit at Epcot ® at Walt Disney World ® Resort and the RenaissanceRe Wall of Wind, as well as RenaissanceRe’s series of Risk Mitigation Leadership Forums that examine the role of mitigation in natural catastrophe risk management. Mr. Tillman has been associated with RenaissanceRe since 1996. He was previously Chief Underwriting Officer for Glencoe Insurance Ltd. (now renamed RenaissanceRe Specialty Risks Ltd.), and also led RenaissanceRe’s Risk Modeling group. Mr. Tillman currently serves on the Executive Committee and Board of the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS) as well as the Research Advisory Council for the IBHS Research Center. Dr. Bachiochi is responsible for helping lead a team of WPC scientists in various operational forecast/product development and risk assessment projects driven by client needs. Dr Bachiochi has been part of WeatherPredict since its inception in 2000 and has played a pivotal role in overall R&D efforts during that time and has recently helped manage company operations in the Raleigh office. Dr Bachiochi contributes with his expertise in prediction and risk assessment for seasonal climate and ENSO, agricultural and energy interests, extra-tropical storms, tropical storms and to a lesser extent climate change. Dr. Bachiochi has over 15 years of experience as an atmospheric scientist both academically and with WeatherPredict. His focused research academically revolved around non-linear dynamics of the atmosphere, ENSO dynamics, coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling, and forecast ensemble techniques with some minor emphasis on climate data assimilation and global climate model cloud modeling. His work prior to joining WeatherPredict included pioneering work in coupled model initialization and seasonal climate SuperEnsemble forecasting. More recently, he has been involved in ensemble precipitation products, European wind storm risk products, and global weather risk evaluation for various other perils. Dr Bachiochi holds his B.S., M.S., and PhD. In Atmospheric Science from Florida State University. Dr. Williford is presently manager of WeatherPredict’s operational weather forecasting team, which includes worldwide tropical cyclone prediction. This group is responsible for daily operational weather forecast products, including expert analysis and informational data sets, for both internal and external clientele. He co-founded WeatherPredict’s predecessor, Weather Predict Inc., in Tallahassee Florida and has had a key role in the establishment of its operational weather forecasting program. Dr. Williford is a contributor to many WeatherPredict initiatives including real-time tropical cyclone prediction, prediction and assessment of risk from tropical cyclones and extratropical storms, and research into operational weather forecast improvements, including ongoing enhancements to the worldwide precipitation and temperature forecasting and tropical cyclone prediction efforts. Dr. Frolov is a senior research scientist responsible for leading research, development, and operational support of products and services informing clients about ocean-related environmental hazards. Dr. Frolov started working for WeatherPredict’s predecessor organization as a consultant in 1998 and has assumed a permanent research scientist position in 2001. Dr. Frolov has initiated and led to successful completion multiple research and consulting projects for the offshore oil and gas industry. He is a principal contributor to the Eddy Forecast System – the essential tool used by WeatherPredict to forecast ocean currents in the Gulf of Mexico. During the last 16 years, Dr. Laboy-Rodriguez has conducted and participated in research related to the development of a liquefaction map for the Puerto Rico Insurance Commission, a cost effectiveness model to evaluate anti-terrorist countermeasures for bridges, developing fragility curves for concrete frame buildings with passive controllers, and evaluating the vulnerability of residential infrastructure in hurricane prone regions. She has also worked as a contractor, inspector, and professor. Her primary research interests are in vulnerability/risk assessments and hazard mitigation. Founded in Bermuda in 1993, RenaissanceRe has offices around the globe and is one of the world’s largest and most successful catastrophe reinsurers. RenaissanceRe is also a leading provider of casualty and specialty reinsurance across a wide range of products. We participate selectively in the insurance market through RenaissanceRe Syndicate 1458 at Lloyd’s. In addition, we create and manage joint ventures and structured products that enable others to partner with and invest alongside us. Our largest joint ventures include DaVinci Reinsurance Ltd. and Top Layer Reinsurance Ltd.