Director, insurance risk
SunEdison
New York, NY
After spending nearly a decade on the carrier side of the industry, Sara Kane took her insurance expertise to SunEdison, the largest global renewable energy development company, where she currently serves as director of insurance risk. After getting her master’s degree, Kane went to work for AIG Environmental before moving on to GCube Insurance Services and then AXIS Capital. While at AXIS, SunEdison was Kane’s biggest client; when its risk manager job came open in 2015, she moved into that role.
“I started as a former property underwriter looking at an asset portfolio of 1,400 wind and solar locations around the world, and I put different risk management tools to work using an underwriter hat,” she says.
Since she took the job, Kane’s position has expanded in many ways. She helped SunEdison navigate its insurance and surety obligations during a tumultuous 2016 after the company declared bankruptcy, while handling the company’s directors & officers and management insurance. For 2017, the biggest issue on Kane’s radar is “helping to set a culture among project teams to understand the role of insurance and how it can be a valuable tool when considered upfront in transactions.”
