Tom Conroy has extensive experience in Life and Annuity Reinsurance. Most recently, he is one of the Founders of Somerset Reinsurance Ltd, a Bermuda based Life and Annuity reinsurer. His role in founding the Company included the design and construction of the business plan, the sale of the concept to the sponsoring investor, location planning and the ongoing participation in the management and direction of the Company. He recently retired from the active management and is a consultant to the Company.

In prior roles, he was the President of ING Re in the 1990's, leading that Group from a second tier reinsurer to a market leader and building an international structure to include operations in Bermuda, Ireland and Japan.

As the CFO of Security Life of Denver, he led the Company's use of reinsurance to optimize risk management, capital efficiency and tax minimization, not just for Security Life, but all of ING's US operations and certain of their international locations. He also oversaw the Investment functions to include starting ING Institutional Markets, the US issuing arm for Funding Agreements and other products.

While at EY (then Ernst & Whinney) he led the development of the IT Audit Staff and. jointly with another, the design and development of the firms audit software.
Tom is a C.P.A (currently inactive license) and holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago (Mathematical Models and Computer Science), a Bachelor's degree from DePaul University and has been active with the ACLI.