Derrick Easton Managing Director, Alternative Risk Transfer Solutions, Americas WTW

Relevant Experience/Specialization

Derrick leads the Alternative Risk Transfer practice for the Americas.

Based in New York and with over 30 years’ experience in the sector, his responsibilities focus on the initiation, structuring and delivery of customized risk financing solutions for corporate clients. Such solutions include:

• Captives: prospective (multi-line stop loss) and retrospective (adverse development covers, loss portfolio transfers) programs
• Portfolio: multi-line multi-year integrated risk programs
• Structured: multi-year pre-loss or post-loss risk financing
• Parametric: Index based insurance contracts
• Customized Credit: multi-trigger risks that include remote credit
• Asset & Capital: contingent capital or catastrophe bonds.

Derrick joined WTW in 2015 to set up and lead the ART Solutions Americas practice. Prior to joining, he enjoyed a number of Alternative Risk-focused roles with other leading brokers both in the UK and from 2002 in the United States. This included leading the risk financing and captive consulting department, captive reinsurance unit, and as a senior placement broker of alternative risk products.

Education and Credentials

• BA (Hons) Risk Management, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
• Certified Member Institute of Risk Management (CMIRM)

Associate Captive Insurance (ACI)