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Jonathan Spry is Head of Insurance Solutions and Advisory at StormHarbour. Jonathan joined StormHarbour in 2014 and has over 15 years of investment banking and insurance industry experience. Jonathan is an Insurance Corporate Finance, Structuring and Solutions specialist focused on providing Advisory Services and Capital Management / Risk Solutions to  life and non-life (re)insurers. Jonathan has expertise in Solvency II, Insurance Capital,  Insurance Linked Securities, Debt Capital Markets, Credit Risk Mitigation,  Risk Transformation, Alternative Assets and Securitization of Insurance Risk. From 2010 – 2014 Jonathan was Head of Insurance Capital Management (Structured Solutions) and more recently Head of UK Insurance Coverage at RBS. Prior to RBS, Jonathan was a Senior Vice President in the capital markets division  of the global reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, where he was responsible for capital markets advisory and the origination, structuring and execution of insurance linked securities. Between 2003 and 2007 Jonathan was Head of  Insurance Linked Securities in Europe at Standard &Poor’s. At S&P Jonathan had primary analytical responsibility for rating life and non-life insurance securitization and played an important role in the development of rating criteria for insurance securitization, cat bonds and CDOs of insurance risk globally as well  as being a  member of the insurance Enterprise Risk Management team. Prior to joining Standard & Poor’s in 2003, Jonathan held positions at Morgan Stanley, Nat West and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi where he was responsible for structuring and executing a number of corporate finance and structured finance transactions.

Jonathan has contributed to numerous articles on the topic of Insurance Linked Securities and is the author of the market overview in ‘The Handbook of Insurance-Linked Securities’ published by Wiley Finance in July 2009. Jonathan was voted ‘Young Broker of the Year’ by Insurance Day magazine at their annual London Market Awards for 2008.