Tony Ursano Bio

Tony has over 34 years of the insurance industry and investment banking experience. He has seen the global insurance and insurtech space from the broad lens of a leading global investment bank, a leading global insurance and reinsurance broker, and a Bermuda-based specialty insurance and reinsurance carrier. Tony has been involved in advising on over 100 insurance industry M&A transactions and hundreds of insurance capital raising transactions, spanning the spectrum of IPOs, common equity, convertible, preferred, debt, surplus note, hybrid, and ILS deals. Tony has always been a staunch advocate for his clients, consistently delivering honest, objective, thoughtful, and creative advice. He is an effective and expert negotiator who understands the finesse and art of the deal. He is a builder and an innovator and has frequently written or spoken about what the insurer of the future will look like. Tony started his career as an analyst at DLJ, went on to work at Merrill Lynch and SG Warburg before building and heading the Global Financial Institutions Group at Bank of America for 10 years before being named a Vice-Chairman. Tony then became head of corporate development for Willis Group and Founder and CEO of Willis Capital Markets and Advisory before going to TigerRisk Partners as President and CEO of TigerRisk Capital Markets and Advisory. Most recently before co-founding Insurance Advisory Partners, Tony was Group CFO of Hamilton Insurance Group. Tony graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 1987 as a Morehead Scholar where he majored in Economics and International studies. He also was a member of UNCs varsity lacrosse team which won the NCAA National Championship in 1986.