Meet Our Board
Prudential / PGIM Portfolio Fixed Income Insurance Client Advisory, Chair
Rupal Shah
Rupal Shah is a Principal and the Head of PGIM Fixed Income Insurance Client Advisory. Ms. Shah partners with the Head of Insurance Solutions to drive our third-party insurance efforts and grow our third-party insurance footprint. Her responsibilities include business development, client service and product strategy to ensure our product set fits appropriately into insurers’ nuanced requirements. Ms. Shah is also tasked with ensuring we have the technology and resources to sufficiently service our insurance clients. She joined PFI from JP Morgan Chase in 2014 and prior to that she was a senior client relationship manager at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Ms. Shah received a BS from Rutgers Business School Honors Program in 2002 with majors in Finance and MSIS and an MBA in 2009 from The Stern School of Business, NYU with a concentration in Corporate Finance and Financial Markets.
Swiss Re, US Vice Chair
Lale Topcuoglu
Lale is a Managing Director and Head of Credit at Swiss Re. In her role, she is responsible for steering the firm’s investments in global credit markets. She comes to Swiss Re after spending three years as Senior Fund Manager and Head of Credit at J O Hambro Capital Management. Previously, she spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs in various leadership roles, where she invested across credit and equity markets. She started her career as a sell-side research analyst in 1999 at Goldman Sachs was named Managing Director in 2010. Lale earned a BA in Economics and Politics, cum laude, from Mount Holyoke College. She lives in Montclair, NJ with her wife and two children.
Inigo Insurance, International Vice Chair
Maeve Grant
Maeve Grant is the Chief Investment Officer at Inigo Insurance, a new specialty insurance and reinsurance syndicate which began trading within the Lloyd’s market from 1 January 2021. Maeve is responsible for managing the invested assets of the Inigo Group covering both liability-sensitive and absolute return mandates. Maeve joined Inigo from Liberty Specialty Markets (a subsidiary of Liberty Mutual) where she was hired into the investment team in the early days of Solvency II. Through her time at Liberty, Maeve supported the investment team through a number of mergers and reorganisations, integrating and de-coupling supporting AUM and ensuring that investment strategies and frameworks remained suitable for the growing and increasingly complex corporate footprint. Joining Inigo in its start-up year, Maeve has enjoyed the challenge of building a new investment function from scratch and being part of a team supporting Inigo as it seeks to lead risks, offering considerable depth to clients with Inigo’s highly experienced underwriting and claims proposition.
Liberty Mutual Investments, Board Member
Amanda Abdella
Amanda Abdella is a Director and Global Fixed Income Strategist at Liberty Mutual Investments. In her role she is responsible for developing multi-sector investment strategies while also influencing broad investment initiatives. Prior to joining LMI, Amanda spent 10 years at Insight Investment (formerly Standish/Mellon) where she was a Senior Portfolio Manager for third-party insurance clients and was co-head of the Insurance Client Strategies Team. Previously she was at The Harford where she spent 14 years in numerous roles including Senior Portfolio Manager for the firm’s general account assets. Amanda has an MBA from the University of Connecticut with concentrations in Finance & Management and a BS in Mathematics from Clarkson University. She is also a CFA charterholder.
Aflac Global Investments, Board Member
Rebecca Amissah
Rebecca Amissah joined Aflac Global Investments in 2014 and is the Chief Compliance Officer and is responsible for oversight of the compliance program and the internal processes for promoting and ensuring Aflac Global Investments compliance with applicable laws globally. Her responsibilities include co-chairing Aflac Global Investments Compliance & Ethics Committee which oversees its compliance risk management program. She is also responsible for formulating and implementing Aflac's investment compliance program. Prior to joining Aflac Global Investments, Rebecca served as the Assistant Vice President & Counsel for John Hancock Life Insurance Company where she served as in-house counsel and was responsible for the Investment Advisory Compliance Testing Program and the Code of Ethics Program respectively. Prior to John Hancock, Rebecca was responsible for the Code of Ethics program at TIAA and Royal Bank of Scotland. Rebecca’s academic background includes a B.A. in Math for Binghamton University and a J.D. from St. John’s University of Law. About Aflac Global Investments Aflac Global Investments refers to Aflac Asset Management LLC and Aflac Asset Management Japan Ltd., which are the asset management subsidiaries of Aflac Incorporated.
Farmers Insurance Group, Board Member
Maïté Irakoze Baur
Maïté Irakoze Baur is Chief Investment Officer for Farmers Insurance Group since January 2021. She is responsible for managing the insurance balance sheets and retirement plan assets. Maïté joined Farmers as Head of Insurance Investments in February 2016. In this role she was responsible for implementing the investment strategy across the insurance balance sheets and managing a fully outsourced multi-asset manager platform. Between 2011 and 2016, Maïté was Head of Investment Mandates and Treasury in Investment Management Switzerland for Zurich Insurance Group, where she had the responsibility to implement the investment strategy and liquidity management for various insurance balance sheets based in Switzerland. Before that, Maïté held other positions within Zurich Insurance Group in New York and Zurich. Maïté holds a Master of Arts in Information Management from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and is also a CFA Charterholder. She currently serves on the COIN Advisory Board.
Wellington Management, Secretary
Sarah Marschok
Sarah helps formulate the firm’s strategic thinking on, and analysis of, the insurance industry and individual companies. Her industry analysis is supported by her work with rating agencies, regulators, public accounting boards, and industry trade groups such as the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, American Council of Life Insurers, Society of Insurance Financial Management, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Medical Professional Liability Association, and International Insurance Society. In developing new insurance-client relationships, she maintains the latest industry information and facilitates the development of customized investment management solutions involving multiple asset classes.
Prior to her role working with insurers, Sarah worked as a relationship analyst where she partnered with our firm’s foreign offices to advance the business needs of our clients, prospects, and consultants in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Japan.
Before joining Wellington Management in 2011, Sarah worked at Fidelity Investments (2009 – 2011). Sarah received her MBA from Boston College (Carroll School, 2016) and her BS in economics from the University of New Hampshire (2009).
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Board Member
May Yang
May Vang is the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) & Treasurer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (Blue Cross) and leads the organization’s strategies for investments and treasury. As CIO & Treasurer, May oversees the allocation of assets across various investment classes and is responsible for optimizing the portfolio, managing the company’s cash flows, liquidity, capital position, and financial returns and risks. May thrives on being a value-add partner, adept at addressing critical organization issues and opportunities with direct impacts to the bottom line. Prior to Blue Cross, May served as the Corporate Treasurer for American Family Insurance. Outside of her professional endeavors, May is passionate and committed to fostering DEI in finance and advocates for greater representation and equity within the industry. She holds her MBA and B.S. from the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management, and is a Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) designation holder. Additionally, May is a board member of the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP), AFP DEI Council (Board Chair), and Center for Economic Inclusion (Board Chair).
Prior Board Members and Founders
Laura Bebe, FBL Financial/FHLB Des Moines, Chair (2021), Vice Chair (2020)
Laura Sarlo, Liberty Mutual, Chair (2022), Vice Chair (2021)
Renee Dailey, Akin Gump, Chari (2020), Vice Chair (2019)
Olivia Lee, AIG, Treasurer/Outreach (2019-2020)
Tina Smith, Thrivent Financial, Chair (2018-2019)
Bal Nahl, International Vice Chair (2018-2019)
Jenna Bussman-Wise, Enstar, Vice Chair (2018)
May Moy, MetLife, Treasurer (2017-2018)
Judith Irish, DWS, Secretary (2018)
Day Bishop, Willis Towers Watson, Founder, Chair (2017), Vice Chair (2018)
Jessica Brennan, The Carlyle Group, Founder, Vice Chair (2016-2018)
Meghan Mahoney, Wellington Management
Jackie Perkins, Prudential, Founder, Chair (2016)
Susan Chung, Allstate, Treasurer (2016)
Lindsey Curley, Wellington Management, Founder
Peggy Gartin, Willis Towers Waston, Founder