OAK Partnerships
OAK Partnerships provides multiclass expertise and capacity for portfolios of insurance risk to leading underwriting partners. Capacity is provided by OAK Syndicate 1440, with risks incepting from 1st January 2027
Underwriting leadership
Cathal Carr
Founder, Group Chief Executive Officer and Chief Underwriting Officer
Elisabeth Groehe
CUO, OAK Partnerships and Joint Active Underwriter, Syndicate 1440
Sarah Walcott
Director of Underwriting, Property
Conrad Williams
Director of Underwriting, Specialty
Karen Barker
Director of Underwriting, Credit
OAK Partnerships brings our technology enabled underwriting expertise to a new cohort of underwriting partners, offering Lloyd’s capacity for multi-class portfolios of profitable risk. For our capital providers, this will further diversify OAK Global’s offering by adding a lower volatility underwriting strategy and risk profile that is highly complementary to our existing reinsurance and retrocession portfolios.
For distribution partners, OAK Partnerships offers long-term, cornerstone capacity across Property, Specialty, Credit, and Casualty classes of business through a single underwriting relationship.
