Karson Management Limited, an innovative FinTech platform that provides capital-efficient solutions for financing & collateral, investing & asset management as well as risk transformation, has announced the appointment of Martin Kauer as Executive Partner.
“I am excited to join Karson at this juncture of its development and to drive the transformation of Karson’s unique platform design into one that supports sustainable growth going forward using my in-depth knowledge in reinsurance and investment banking,” Kauer commented.
He is a senior executive reinsurance, finance, corporate finance and investment banking professional with more than three decades of experience in the insurance industry and in investment banking.
Prior to Karson, Kauer successfully managed Asia Capital Re and Glacier Re, after the two entities were acquired by the Catalina Group. Before that, he was the CFO of Zurich Re which was spun off as Converium and listed at the SIX Swiss Exchange and at the NYSE.
He also worked as an investment banker for Bank Vontobel and UBS, where he managed the demutualization of Swiss Life in 1997.
Derrell Hendrix, Karson’s CEO, said: “I worked with Martin as he shaped Zurich Re into an integrated global reinsurance platform and in taking that platform to the public market as Converium.
“Since then, I have seen Martin successfully integrate two other major reinsurers into Catalina and believe his extensive expertise in reinsurance and investment banking will be a very valuable resource for Karson’s further development.”
