Hannover Life Reassurance Company of America has hired ILS expert Keith Kennerly as vice president of structured health and financial solutions, to be responsible for sourcing and originating new health financing opportunities for the firm.
Most recently, Kennerly served as managing director for Aetna Inc. where he focused on reinsurance, securitisation, strategic financial initiatives as well as capital markets for Aetna’s corporate finance platform; including execution and management of medical loss ratio securitisations (Vitality Re Program).
Before joining Aetna Inc., Kennerly worked for Paladin Strategic Partners and before that was a senior banker with Barclays Capital (formerly Lehman Brothers).
Kennerly spent the majority of his career with Barclays Capital as a liquidity manager focused on structuring, marketing and executing several large financing transactions for non-liquid and mortgage related assets, providing short-term liquidity solutions as well as long term securitisations for the firm and its prime brokerage clients.
Hannover Life Reassurance Company of America is the North American life and health reinsurance subsidiary of Hannover Re Group. Hannover Re, with a gross premium of €14 billion, is the third-largest reinsurer in the world.