GulfRe

Shankar Majrekar,
Chief Financial Officer
T +971 4 382 5703
M +971 50 708 5614
E shankar.majrekar@gulfre.com

Shankar is a Chartered Accountant with 20 years of insurance and reinsurance experience with companies both in the London market and the Gulf Cooperation Council. In addition, as a Manager at KPMG he gained a wealth of knowledge and experience in general management, financial planning and analysis, taxation and investment management, management accounting and reporting, budget preparation and control. Shankar also has particular experience of setting up FSA regulated insurance/reinsurance companies in the United Kingdom.

Gail P. Norstrom,
Chief Risk Officer
T +971 4 382 5712
M +971 50 708 5609
E gail.norstrom@gulfre.com

Former Gulf Re CEO Gail Norstrom is Chief Risk Officer for Gulf Reinsurance and has nearly 40 years experience in the insurance and reinsurance industry. Prior to joining Gulf Re during its founding in February of 2008, Gail spent six years as a Managing Director in Aon’s National Property Broking Group in New York, USA where he served as the lead broker for several global insurance placements. He was also a member of the team coordinating Aon’s Terrorism Risk Management activities, acted as strategic advisor to Aon Property Risk Control organizations and oversaw Aon’s Property Benchmarking activities. Prior to joining Aon, Gail spent thirty plus years in the property insurance business, all with Industrial Risk Insurers (IRI), Hartford CT, USA. He retired in June of 2001 after eight years as President and CEO. Gail holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Tulsa as well as a M.S. from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School.  Gail splits his time between Dubai and Simsbury, CT USA.