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PRESENTERS

Kevin Donoghue Jeremy Hitzig
Mystic Capital Duero River Ventures

Kevin has spent over 30 years in Jeremy Hitzig began his insurance
various merger, acquisition and career in 1995 as a principal at Capital
financial consulting roles. Prior to Risk Strategies where he focused on
co-founding Mystic Capital, Kevin’s emerging risk transfer tools including
background included starting and catastrophe bonds and other blended
developing BMG Capital Advisors capital markets/insurance products.
Group, LLC (a subsidiary of The Hartford), and four years with In 1997, he joined Distinguished LLC
KPMG Peat Marwick. He has a MBA from Boston College and held a number of executive positions before being named
and a B.S. in Accountancy from Bentley College. Kevin has Chief Executive Officer in 2006, serving in that role until the
earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Certified end of 2018. During his time at Distinguished, the company
Insurance Counselor (CIC) designations and is a Certified grew from a single office with less than 10 people and $2
Public Accountant (CPA). He is a member of the following: million in revenue to more than 3,000 people in 3 continents
generating nearly $150 million in revenue. In early 2019, Hitzig
New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA), CFA Institute, launched Duero River Ventures, an investment vehicle and
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), consultancy focused on the insurance and specialty finance
Society of Certified Insurance Counselors (SCIC) and the industries. Duero River Ventures current interests include
National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO). Kevin is ReSource Pro, Accord Financial and BondIt Media Finance.
also Chairman and Managing Director of Mystic’s London Hitzig is a graduate of McGill University and received his MBA
based subsidiary, Mystic Capital Advisors Limited. from Columbia Business School in New York. He also holds
the Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Property and
Casualty Underwriter designations. He has been a member of
Gary Hirst the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) since 2006. He is
also a past-President and current board member of the Target
CHES Special Risk Markets Program Administrators Association.

Gary Hirst commenced his Insurance
career in the early 1980s in a Lloyd’s
Broker as a ‘scratch boy’, rising Dogan Kaleli
to the level of Director early in his
career, which culminated in his Allianz Global Corporate
participation in the management buy- & Specialty (AGCS)
out and flotation of the Lloyd’s Broker onto the London Stock Dogan Kaleli is Head of Programs
Exchange. Gary moved to Canada in 2011 to run the North Business for AGCS in North America,
American interests of the Lloyd’s Broker. In 2012, he joined based in New York. Prior to this role,
CHES Special Risk Inc. where he is President and CEO. Gary is Dogan lead various underwriting
also a founding member of the Canadian Managing General teams in Turkey and Brazil. An expert
Agents, a National Association established to represent over in new-tech, Dogan has an active
140 Commercial Insurance MGA’s in the Canadian market role in Allianz’s innovation efforts driving multiple InsurTech
place for the compliance and regulation of the industry, and projects within Allianz North America; he is also a cofounder of
to improve the education and understanding of the MGA multiple tech startups specializing in AI, quantum computing
arena amongst the wider Insurance community in Canada. and digitalized ecosystems. Previously, Dogan was Allianz’s
Head of Risk Management in the Americas and began his
insurance career with Allianz in Turkey and Brazil. A native
of Istanbul, Dogan actively mentors up-and-coming Turkish
entrepreneurs through the Hamdi Ulukaya Startup Support
Program (HUG), the startup initiative created by the Chobani
CEO. Dogan earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Actuarial Studies
from Marmara University, Istanbul in 2006. Dogan was also
named to Insurance Business America’s Hot 100 list for 2019.

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