Career
Eklund began his reinsurance career in 1983 as an entry level trainee with Constitution Re, the reinsurance arm of the Crum & Forster group. In 1988 he was recruited by Ajit Jain to be the Treaty Department Manager for the Reinsurance Division of Berkshire Hathaway. There, he was instrumental in getting Berkshire to enter the property catastrophe field after hurricane Hugo and the San Francisco earthquake lead to a shortage of capacity in the market in 1989. In 1993, he joined Renaissance Re as a founding member of management, initially serving as Vice President in charge of International and Retrocessional business, ultimately rising to become President and Chief Underwriting Officer. In 2004, he resigned from Renaissance Re in conjunction with moving his family back to the United States.
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