BOARd OF DIRECTORS & SUPPORTING COMMITTEES
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Shaping Long-Term Success
Gerardo Garcia G.
Director – Executive Chairman
Gerardo García has over 29 years’ experience in the global insurance and banking sectors. Gerardo is the founder, and Chairman of Barents Re Reinsurance Company, Inc., a role for which he has been awarded numerous leadership accolades on an international basis.
Gerardo’s prior experience includes investment banking, M&A and advisory roles to national governments on financial services regulations. Gerardo serves as a Board Director for a number of insurance and reinsurance companies alongside his role as Board Director for both Credit & Commerce Bank and for Canal Bank S.A., the latter which he founded in 2014.
Gary Callaghan
Director CEO
Gary Callaghan’s career spans over 35 years in the reinsurance industry. Formerly Managing Director of Aon Europe, Gary has also held senior positions in Benfield and Willis.
Gary was reinsurance buyer for a premier Lloyd’s syndicate before joining Barents Re as Head of Retrocession, then became Managing Director and in the first quarter of 2024 was promoted to CEO of Barents Re.
John Harbor
Director
John Harbor has over 37 years’ experience in the international insurance industry, having undertaken numerous senior management roles in accounting, audit and finance.
More recently, John has held senior non-executive Director roles in insurance and wider industry sectors. John is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.
Stephen Peter Jones
Director
Stephen has more than 41 years experience in senior executive and financial positions in a wide range of U.S. U.K., and L.A. companies transforming and restructuring operations in a number of diverse industries such as shipping, development and infrastructure, real estate, agriculture, consumer goods and retail.
He is a Chartered Management Accountant and holds an MBA in finance and banking.
Graham Mackay
Director
Graham Mackay is an actuarial-credentialed reinsurance executive with professional experience of forty-years in global reinsurance markets, twenty-years structuring and executing cross-border transactions, ten-years building and managing offshore reinsurance companies including seven-years as Director & COO of commercial reinsurers in Cayman Islands.
Past Chair of Cayman International Reinsurance Companies Association.
SUPPORTING COMMITTEES
Audit, Risk & Compliance
Our Board of Directors — comprised of independent and executive members - provides clear direction and accountability, while our Supporting Committees ensure specialized supervision across critical areas of the business.
Reinsurance
Assists the Board of Directors in the operation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and strategies in all reinsurance matters, including financing and other mechanisms for transferring risks and responsibilities.
Investments
Assists the Board of Directors in the determination and monitoring of the investments undertaken by the Company. Makes recommendations for medium and long-term initiatives and infrastructure projects.
Compensation
Assists the Board of Directors in the analysis and determination of compensation packages for the executives of the Company matters.
Gerardo Garcia G.
Director & Executive Chairman
Fernando Diaz Lozano
Compliance Officer
Marukel Higuero
General Manager & Head of Legal