Compre Group Holdings has promoted two internal actuaries to run its risk and pricing functions, a pair of moves that signal how much harder it has become to govern and price transactions at a legacy reinsurer that is no longer doing purely legacy business.
Davin Patel (pictured, left), who joined Compre in 2016 as one of its first actuaries, has been appointed chief risk officer, subject to regulatory and governance approvals. He steps into the role vacated by Brid Reynolds, who joined Compre in 2021 and resigned as CRO earlier this year. Thuan Ho (pictured, right), who has led actuarial work on M&A transactions since joining in 2022, succeeds Patel as chief actuary, pricing, pending immigration approval.
Patel’s career at Compre traces the group’s growth almost from the start. Moving through actuarial manager, head of actuarial, and chief actuary for M&A, he has been involved in the majority of transactions Compre has closed over the past decade. His work has spanned reserving, capital management, and underwriting due diligence across multiple jurisdictions and liability classes.
Compre is no longer a pure-play legacy acquirer. Chief underwriting officer Rachel Bardon said the group’s strategy has shifted toward a broader specialty reinsurer model spanning legacy and prospective transactions alongside capital and claims solutions. That expansion into renewable loss portfolio transfers, structured adverse development covers, and prospective quota shares means the enterprise risk framework now has to accommodate transaction types with different information dynamics, different pricing assumptions, and different tail exposures than traditional run-off.
Ho’s appointment to chief actuary, pricing picks up where Patel’s left off, with a specific focus on the prospective side. Since joining from Deloitte’s Bermuda practice in 2022, he has led the development of Compre’s prospective pricing capabilities. That discipline differs structurally from pricing legacy acquisitions. In a legacy transaction, the liabilities have already been underwritten and the cedant typically holds more historical data than the acquirer. Prospective covers require the acquirer to price forward-looking risk with less information asymmetry, but also less established methodology.
Ho’s promotion to the chief actuary role signals that Compre wants dedicated leadership focused specifically on developing that capability.
The two promotions continue a period of deliberate leadership investment at Compre. In February 2026, the group named David Atkins, formerly COO at Premia and before that a 17-year veteran of legacy specialist Enstar, as deputy CEO, a newly created role adding capacity as Compre navigated a financial reversal while pursuing expansion across North America and Europe. More recently, Compre appointed Graham Taylor, also an Enstar veteran, as managing director of underwriting, expanding the senior team responsible for executing transactions across the group’s growing portfolio.
The appointments suggest a group that is scaling its risk, actuarial, and underwriting infrastructure in parallel, rather than sequentially, as deal complexity increases. PwC’s H1 2026 run-off market review recorded 13 publicly disclosed deals by six acquirers, with gross liabilities of approximately $780 million, less than half the $1.537 billion seen in H1 2025. Unresolved casualty reserve uncertainty and a softening underwriting cycle are among the factors market participants have cited for lengthening deal timelines and raising the bar for pricing discipline.
Compre’s response has been to keep the people who know its book closest to the decisions that govern it.
“As Compre continues to grow and evolve, investing in our people and developing our leadership capability will remain central to our success," said Atkins. "Davin and Thuan have both made significant contributions to the business, and their well-deserved appointments demonstrate the depth of talent we have developed within the group.”
