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it made sense to work in an area where I could leverage my capital markets experience so I found myself in the ILS space.


What has been the highlight of your career so far?


Living and working in New York. I learned an enormous amount, both personally and professionally, and it was a seminal time in my career.


What has been the biggest challenge you have encountered?


Living and working in New York. It is an incredibly competitive place and it can be tough to be a tiny minnow in a massive lake.


If you had chosen a different profession/career path, what would it have been?


Nathalie Rushe


Job: Managing director Company: Mercury Capital Career path


2013—Managing director, Mercury Capital 2012—Principal, Rushe Capital Advisors 2009—Vice president, Hiscox 2008—Vice president, RAM Re 2003—Vice president, ACA Capital 2000—Underwriter, Centre Solutions 1997—Underwriting assistant, Starr Excess Liability Insurance


Nathalie Rushe has a background that spans both reinsurance and structured credit. She is currently managing director of marketing and origination for Mercury Capital. She also has an independent consulting company, Rushe Capital Advisors, which provides a range of advisory and consulting services to clients in Bermuda and overseas.


Prior to Mercury, Rushe was vice president at Hiscox where she


was responsible for the management of Hiscox’s ILS portfolio in addition to a traditional property catastrophe underwriting and modelling role. Her structured credit career began at Centre Re Bermuda, followed by five years at ACA Capital in New York City.


She is a CFA charter-holder, and her reinsurance credentials include CPCU and ARe.


Why did you choose to work in this industry initially?


From the age of four, it was my dream to work in this industry. Okay, maybe that’s not true. Like most people in the industry, it was by pure happenstance that I found myself in the business/finance world. My degree was in Biology and I’d had no intention of ever working in an office. But I needed to save money before applying to vet school and I inadvertently found myself on a career path that had nothing to do with my original goal. I worked in Bermuda and then in NYC, mostly in structured credit. When I moved back to Bermuda,


“It is an incredibly competitive place and it can be tough to be a tiny minnow in a massive lake.”


Veterinarian—which really was my dream from the age of four. I have the occasional pang of regret, but in general I’m very happy in my current profession and I genuinely love what I do. ■


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