Tim Cordier

President

He has experience in most aspects of reinsurance including treaty and facultative property and casualty; commercial and personal lines; traditional and program business. His primary areas of focus have been workers’ compensation, catastrophe exposed property, and private passenger automobile.

Tim has been in the re/insurance industry for 20 years with the experience as both the buyer and seller of reinsurance. His experience has been focused on catastrophe exposed commercial and personal lines property insurance. In addition to his reinsurance experience, Tim has a strong appreciation for data first in his analytical approach to help inform making the best decisions for the company. His previous roles included the responsibility of catastrophe modeling, portfolio management, operations and underwriting.

Tim began his career with Arch Reinsurance Company and then moved to the primary side spending time running operations, underwriting, actuarial and managing a Louisiana based property insurance carrier. Most recently Tim holds the position of Chief Risk Officer for Cypress Property and Casualty Insurance Company based out of Jacksonville Florida.

W. Ashley Mims

Senior Vice President

Ashley has more than 25 years’ experience in financial analytics, client relationship management and new business development within the reinsurance industry.

He has experience in most aspects of reinsurance including treaty and facultative property and casualty; commercial and personal lines; traditional and program business. His primary areas of focus have been workers’ compensation, catastrophe exposed property, and private passenger automobile.

In addition to the sales skills needed in the traditional role of a reinsurance intermediary, Ashley’s strong analytical abilities have served him well in his “client first” approach of uncovering clients’ needs and developing customized solutions.

Ashley began his career as a reinsurance treaty underwriter in New York with Constitution Reinsurance Company. Following Constitution Re, Ashley spent 15 years with New York based reinsurance brokerage U.S. RE Corporation. Prior to joining Vista Re in May of 2014, Ashley was Vice President at Towers Watson in Atlanta.

Brian R. McGuire

Senior Vice President

Brian’s career spans almost 40 years in the reinsurance industry during which he has earned a high reputation for his accomplishments in the domestic and international treaty and facultative reinsurance markets. He specializes in all property and casualty lines of business, including professional liability, financial guarantee, and surety business.

Brian began his reinsurance broking career at Guy Carpenter & Company in the Domestic Treaty Division in New York. During his eight years at Guy Carpenter, he was responsible for medium and large company primary and retrocessional programs. He also worked in London with C. T. Bowring as a reinsurance broker of U.S. business into Lloyd’s and overseas markets.

After Guy Carpenter, Brian was a Senior Executive with U.S. RE Corporation in New York for 27 years handling, property, casualty, and professional liability reinsurance and retrocessional business for both domestic and international ceding companies.

Brian’s experience includes in-depth knowledge of captive arrangements from both a broking and underwriting perspective.

Alex D. Gaudet

Vice President

Alex began his reinsurance career in Philadelphia at Towers Watson. As part of his training, he spent time in the claims, accounting, and facultative departments before moving to the treaty side. Subsequently, Alex moved to Guy Carpenter where he worked on various size accounts ranging from small mutuals to national accounts.

Alex relocated to Florida in 2014 to assist on the formation of an MGA that specialized in Manufactured Homes and Airport Property on a non-admitted basis. Through his various roles, he has always thought outside the box with entrepreneurial thinking and enjoys the difficult to place programs.

Alex joined Vista Re in April, 2020. He holds the CPCU and ARe designation through the Institutes.