Guy Carpenter

Headquarters Address: 1166 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036, USA
GWP: $51 billion (2021)
Size (employees): 3,400+
Global Locations: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, UK, USA, Venezuela
Expertise: Insurance, reinsurance, risk management, enterprise risk management, capital management, capital markets, market intelligence, predictive analytics
Key People: Dean Klisura (president & CEO)

 

About Guy Carpenter
Guy Carpenter & Company LLC is a risk and reinsurance specialist business of Marsh & McLennan, with more than 60 offices worldwide. It provides reinsurance broking, data & analytics, and strategic advisory services to help customers to adapt to emerging opportunities and achieve profitable growth.

Guy Carpenter’s reinsurance broking business helps clients to solve unique and complex risk management challenges by delivering in-depth market knowledge and efficient transactions in relevant geographies.

The strategic advisory team predicts and addresses emerging business risks and opportunities. It provides integrated solutions for significant areas of expertise such as risk, growth, capital, and insight.

The GC Analytics team helps clients to translate a large amount of data into actionable business intelligence to minimise risk while gaining competitive advantage through quantitative analysis, advanced catastrophe modelling and investigation, development actuarial and financial tools, and analytics advisory.

 

History of Guy Carpenter
Guy Carpenter founded his company in 1922 and then proposed a merger with cotton insurance brokers Henry W. Marsh and Donald R. McLennan a year later.

Throughout the years, Guy Carpenter & Company LLC has delivered a combination of broking expertise, strategic advisory, and data & analytics services to help clients solve complex risk management challenges and achieve profitable growth.

The company became the first integrated analysis platform to support customers’ reinsurance and capital decisions. It is also the first to provide an analytic solution to manage potential risk accumulation in personal accident portfolios and an analytic tool that assesses the profitability of policies and entire portfolios.

 

Leadership at Guy Carpenter

Dean Klisura – president & CEO
Klisura is the president and CEO of Guy Carpenter and is a member of the Guy Carpenter executive committee. He also serves as vice-chair of Marsh McLennan.

Klisura was most recently president of Marsh Global Placement and Advisory Services, leading property and casualty placement activities globally, as well as heading Bowring Marsh, the Insurer Consulting Group and Marsh Advisory. He joined Marsh in 1993 and has held several key global leadership roles, including president of global specialties.

He holds a BS in Finance from Santa Clara University.

 

Culture at Guy Carpenter
Guy Carpenter promotes diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Its Women LEAD (Leadership, Excellence, Action, Development) employee resource group collaborates with clients and various associations to provide networking opportunities for women to discuss workplace diversity. Meanwhile, the company’s annual US Women in (Re)insurance Survey gathers well-informed views regarding the issue.

 

 

 

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