Stroughair Joins RMS As Head of RiskMarkets Group

Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions announced that John Stroughair has been hired to head the RiskMarkets group of RMS Consulting. In that capacity, he will be responsible for all capital markets activities, including risk analysis of catastrophe bonds for use by rating agencies and investors, the Paradex initiative to provide parametric indices for risk transfer, and a new platform for managing insurance-linked security portfolios.

Stroughair joins RMS from Oliver Wyman & Co., where he was a managing director in the corporate risk practice, focusing on developing quantitative approaches to improve managerial decisions. He was one of the founders of the company’s Frankfurt office, where he led the growth of the risk-based consulting business in Germany and Switzerland.