Harrington Re has a highly experienced executive management team and Board of Directors. Each of our executives has long-standing relationships with (re)insurers and distribution partners around the world, developed through decades of experience in the industry. The Company will utilize these relationships to identify business opportunities and capitalize on underwriting opportunities that leverage the strength of our management team.
William Fischer is the Chief Executive Officer of Harrington Re and has over 34 years of reinsurance industry experience. Prior to joining Harrington Re, Mr. Fischer served as the Chief Underwriting O…
William Fischer is the Chief Executive Officer of Harrington Re and has over 34 years of reinsurance industry experience.
Prior to joining Harrington Re, Mr. Fischer served as the Chief Underwriting Officer for the global Reinsurance operations of AXIS Capital and had worked at AXIS Capital since the company’s inception in 2001, helping to found the company. Mr. Fischer played an integral role in building AXIS Capital’s global reinsurance business to over $20 billion in cumulative gross written premium across 14 lines of business with experience leading and managing all aspects of the business including underwriting, risk and capital management. Mr. Fischer moved to Bermuda in 2001 to build the reinsurance business and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of AXIS Reinsurance. Mr. Fischer returned to the United States from Bermuda in June 2011 to assume the role of Chief Underwriting Officer for AXIS Reinsurance globally. Prior to joining AXIS, Mr. Fischer was Executive Vice President at Everest Re Group and had responsibilities for a variety of reinsurance product lines including property, accident and health and financial products. Mr. Fischer previously worked at Transatlantic Reinsurance in both the London and New York offices and began his reinsurance career at Skandia America Group in 1987. Prior to reinsurance Mr. Fischer was a design engineer with Honeywell. Mr. Fischer has both a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University as well as graduating from the prestigious Challenge of Leadership program at Insead. Mr. Fischer is also a founding partner in Alpasión Wines helping to build a thriving wine business in the Uco Valley of Mendoza, Argentina with his partners.
Greg Rymon-Lipinski is the Chief Financial Officer at Harrington Re. Mr. Rymon-Lipinski has over 25 years of professional experience in the (re)insurance industry. Prior to joining Harrington Re, Mr.…
Greg Rymon-Lipinski is the Chief Financial Officer at Harrington Re.
Mr. Rymon-Lipinski has over 25 years of professional experience in the (re)insurance industry. Prior to joining Harrington Re, Mr. Rymon-Lipinski led the external financial reporting function at AXIS Capital. As part of his role at AXIS Capital, Greg was responsible for meeting the internal and external financial reporting requirements, providing corporate finance and accounting expertise to other AXIS Capital group functions, including investor relations, treasury and corporate development teams, as well as the oversight of the group accounting policies. Prior to joining AXIS Capital in 2013, Mr. Rymon-Lipinski was employed at the global reinsurer, PartnerRe Ltd. as the Head of External Reporting. Between 1997 and 2010, Mr. Rymon-Lipinski was employed by the global accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”), most recently as Director, with a focus on the insurance and reinsurance industry. At PwC, his primary responsibilities included the supervision of audits of large US and UK listed (re)insurance clients, leading of local regulatory compliance audits, and the management of consulting engagements such as M&A due diligence reviews, corporate governance analyses, internal controls projects and operational efficiency engagements. Mr. Rymon-Lipinski holds a Bachelor of Commerce Honours degree in Accounting and Auditing from the University of the Witwatersrand and is a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Bermuda and the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Nicholas Buckley is the Chief Risk Officer and Chief Actuary at Harrington Re. Mr. Buckley has over 25 years of experience in the non-life insurance industry, most recently with AXIS Capital, where he…
Nicholas Buckley is the Chief Risk Officer and Chief Actuary at Harrington Re.
Mr. Buckley has over 25 years of experience in the non-life insurance industry, most recently with AXIS Capital, where he held the roles of Chief Risk Officer for AXIS Re Europe SE and Senior Vice President within the Group Risk Team. Mr. Buckley joined AXIS Capital in 2008, playing an integral role in the development and build out of AXIS Capital’s Risk function and Enterprise Risk Management framework. During the years 2001 to 2008 Mr. Buckley was a member of the Remetrics team at reinsurance broker Benfield (now part of Aon Benfield) where he worked on a wide range of reinsurance risk modeling and advisory projects. Mr. Buckley also held the position of Vice President at XL Financial Solutions working on non-traditional reinsurance. He began his career at the actuarial consultancy Tillinghast-Towers Perrin (now part of Willis Towers Watson) where he worked on a variety of reserving and financial modeling assignments. Mr. Buckley graduated from the University of Manchester with a joint honors degree in Mathematics and Physics and has been a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries since 2000.