Joseph E. Consolino

Jeff Consolino has served as a director of AmWINS since December 2006. Since February 2013 Jeff has been with American Financial Group, Inc. (AFG), an insurance holding company based in Cincinnati, Ohio with assets in excess of $60 billion, where he is currently executive vice president and chief financial officer. From February 2013 until its acquisition by the Company in November 2016, he served as Chairman of the Board of AFG’s majority-owned subsidiary, National Interstate Corporation. In December 2015, Mr. Consolino was appointed to serve as Chairman of the Board of Neon Capital Limited, an AFG subsidiary which operates Syndicate 2468 at Lloyd’s of London. From March 2006 to February 2013, Jeff was with Validus Holdings, Ltd., a reinsurer based in Bermuda, as President and CFO. Mr. Consolino also served as Chief Executive Officer, President and founding Director of PαCRe Ltd., a Bermuda-based underwriter of top-layer property catastrophe (re)insurance during his time as an executive officer of Validus through December 2015, when PαCRe Ltd. ceased operations and returned all capital to its shareholders. Until joining Validus Holdings, he served as a managing director in the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch specializing in insurance company advisory and financing transactions. Jeff currently serves on the board of directors for AFG and until 2015, served on the boards of directors of Validus and PαCRe Ltd. He graduated from Duke University with a BS in electrical engineering in 1988 and received an MBA from Cornell University in 1992.