Joan Lamm-Tenant

Joan Lamm-Tennant serves as director of Element Fleet Management and is a member of the Compensation & Corporate Governance Committee.

Joan Lamm-Tennant is a global entrepreneur with over 35 years of experience in building, operating and governing business with a proven track record in synthesizing strategy and innovation with result-focused execution. From December 2015 to May 2020, Joan was the founder and CEO of Blue Marble Micro Ltd, an insurtech that digitalized and implemented the end to end risk transfer solution to climate risk in the agriculture value chain of multinational corporations and governments.

Prior to founding Blue Marble, Joan was the Global Chief Economist and Risk Strategist for Guy Carpenter & Company, a global brokerage and advisory firm. Prior to Guy Carpenter, Joan worked for General Reinsurance, a multinational reinsurer, as the founder and President of their consulting division that delivered risk and capital advice to (re)insurers in the US, Europe and Asia.

In parallel to her industry experience, Joan had an academic career of over thirty years. She was a tenured Professor of Finance at Villanova University where she held the Thomas Labrecque Chair in Business. Most recently, Joan was an Adjunct Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania where she held the Laurence and Susan Hirsch Chair in International Business.

In addition to currently advising Blue Marble, Joan serves as a Corporate Director on the Boards of Equitable Holdings, Inc., Element Financial Management Corporation, Ambac Financial Group, Hamilton Insurance Group, Ltd. and The Institutes. Previously, Joan served on the Boards of Selective Insurance Group (from 1994 to 2015) and Ivans, an insurance technology provider (from 2001 to 2013). She was instrumental in the sale of Ivans to Ability, a portfolio company of Bain Capital. Joan served on the Advisory Board of CoverWallet, an insurance technology startup, (from 2015 to 2019) which sold to AON.

Joan holds a Ph.D. in Finance and Investments from the University of Texas. In addition, she holds an M.B.A. in Finance and a B.B.A. with Honors in Accounting from St. Mary's University.