OUR TEAM

Validus Leadership Team

Senior Leadership


Kevin Lester

Chief Executive Officer


Haakon Blakstad

Chief Commercial Officer


Marc Cogliatti

Head of Capital Markets - EMEA


Bryan Cohen

Head of North American Client Coverage


Matilde Espregueira

Head of Marketing



Kambiz Kazemi

Chief Investment Officer


Gianluca Lorenzon

Head Of Fund Finance Advisory


Liz McNally

Director of Client Operations


Kate Norrie

Head of Human Resources


Shane O’Neill

Head of Interest Rate Trading



Georgios Roumeliotis

Head of Quantitative Analytics


Alain Smith

Head of UK Client Engagement


Nirvani Sookdeo

Head of European Risk Advisory


Jeremy Wang

Chief Product Officer


Ashley Young

Finance Director



Ryan Brandham

Head of Global Capital Markets, North America