Senior Vice President, Head Modeler Stephan Gaschen has joined ArielRE from AIG Private Bank in Zurich where he was the Risk Manager for Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) products. From 1999 until 2006, he headed the Insurance Risk Assessment/Cat Modeling department of Winterthur Insurance Group. He was responsible for group-wide accumulation control, risk assessment/risk modeling, pricing of internal cat covers, structuring the group’s global catastrophe reinsurance and for cross-border large loss monitoring. Prior to this, Stephan Gaschen was with Swiss Re as a member of the product management team for four years, where he developed Geographic Information Systems based models for assessing natural catastrophe risk. Stephan Gaschen holds a Masters of Science degree in geometrics and rural engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich. Mr. Gaschen is a member of the Swiss Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and the Swiss Organization for Geographic Information.
