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Rick Pagnani is an Executive Vice President in the New York office and head of PIMCO's insurance-linked business. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2018, he was the chief executive officer of Mt. Logan Re, where he launched and grew the third-party ILS investment business for Everest Reinsurance. Previously, he was a partner at TigerRisk Partners, where he focused on production in both the life and P&C markets and new product development. He also served as chief executive officer of Ascendant Reinsurance, a class 3 Bermuda-based reinsurance company focusing on catastrophe derivatives, and was a managing director at Swiss Re New Markets, a division of Swiss Reinsurance Company. He has 30 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from Fordham University and a bachelor’s degree from Hobart College.

Courtney Wilder is a Senior Consultant and Head of the Alternative Investment Research Team at JANA. In his research role, he is responsible for leading JANA’s Alternative Investment Strategies Research team that advises traditional institutional clients on manager selection and portfolio construction across both liquid and semi-illiquid alternative and hedge fund strategies. As a Senior Consultant, he advises a number of institutional superannuation and endowment clients. Courtney has been with JANA since 2006 and prior to his current role, he has been a member of the International equity, Australian equity and Private equity research teams within JANA in conjunction to consulting to a diverse range of institutional clients. Courtney is a graduate of Macquarie University with a double degree in Applied Finance and Economics and has completed the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst program.