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Board of
Directors

of Barents Re Reinsurance Company, Inc.

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Gerardo García

Director – Executive Chairman

Gerardo García has over 28 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

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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.

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Gary Callaghan

Director – CEO – Head of Retrocession

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.

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​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. He is also a non-executive director for a Cayman Islands Life Reinsurance company.

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John Harbor

Director

John Harbor has over 35 years’ experience in the international insurance industry, having undertaken numerous senior management roles in accounting, audit and finance.

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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.

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Stephen Peter Jones

Director

Stephen has more than 40 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

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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.

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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

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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.

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