AGENDA

Joseph Maietta is a Managing Director and client portfolio manager on the High Yield Team. Prior to joining MacKay Shields in 2014, he was a Senior Associate in the Institutional Client Management Group at PIMCO and was previously an Associate in the Investment Analytics and Consulting area at JPMorgan Chase & Co. He earned a B.S. in Finance from Hofstra University Honors College and holds a dual M.S. in Global Finance from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is a CFA Charterholder and has been in the investment management industry since 2008.

Laura Sarlo is the Emerging Markets Portfolio Manager at Liberty Mutual Investments (LMI), managing hard currency emerging markets bond portfolios as well as local currency portfolios supporting Liberty’s global operations. Laura joined LMI from Loomis, Sayles & Company, where she worked on global portfolios as a sovereign analyst, managed a multi-asset portfolio, and served as a senior member of the firm’s macro strategies team. Laura began her career as a trader and analyst on the foreign exchange and Treasury open market desks at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Laura is active in investment and insurance industry groups and currently serves as US Chair of the Executive Board for the Insurance Women’s Investment Network. She holds a BA from Drew University, a Master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School, and is a CFA charterholder.

Xiaowei Han joined TIAA as the Head of ALM in Feb 2019. She leads the Asset Liability Management function and the construction of economic capital framework. Before joining TIAA, Xiaowei had worked in Transamerica since 2008 with experience in variable annuities, fixed annuities, universal life, retirement & pension, and institutional business. During her time in Transamerica, Xiaowei led the universal life valuation and modelling function. She also headed the Enterprise ALM function which focuses on holistic hedging/ALM management, General Account asset and derivative modelling, and aggregated ALM reporting across all lines of business. Prior to this role, she was a Financial Risk Manager who was responsible for identifying financial risk in ALM/Hedging strategies, modelling and pricing to the annuities, retirement, and institutional business. Her other experience included managing General Account ALM for annuities, retirement, and institutional business, designing and building Variable Annuity hedge strategies as well as Variable and Fixed Annuity Statutory Reporting.

Xiaowei holds a Master of Science degree in Actuarial Science from the University of Iowa, a Master of Science degree in Physical Chemistry from Nanjing University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Nanjing University. She holds the following designations: Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), Chartered Financial Analyst

(CFA®) charter holder, and Member of American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA).

Federico was appointed to the role of Head of Fixed Income in May 2018, and previously operated as the Co-head of Fixed Income. He joined QBE in 2012 from Consultatio Asset Management and has more than 12 years prior investment experience. He holds a Bachelor of Economics and is a CFA charter holder

As Head of Investment Strategy for Corebridge’s Investments organization, Farhad Mian is responsible for investment strategy, strategic asset allocation optimization and investment planning for the overall investment portfolio, as well as aligning new asset origination strategy to support new business growth and strategic transactions across Corebridge Financial.

Farhad has 25 years of experience in insurance and asset management industry. Prior to joining AIG in 2014, Farhad held various leadership roles at AmerUs, Aviva and Athene. These include Head of Risk Management for the North American asset management business, Vice President of Asset/Liability Management and Director of Risk Management.

Farhad previously held visiting faculty position as Adjunct Professor of Finance at Drake University.
Farhad received his Bachelors’ degree in Finance, Master’s degree in Financial Management and MBA from Drake University and holds a Certificate in Quantitative Finance. He is a CFA® and CAIA® charterholder, and holds additional professional risk management designations of FRM, PRM, and CRP. 

Todd M. Campbell is President and Chief Executive Officer of Builders Insurance, an A.M. Best “A” rated mutual captive company located in Atlanta, Georgia.  Builders is a super-regional insurer operating in 20+ states and its surplus lines carrier is licensed in 49 jurisdictions in America. Builders, with $360 million in surplus and $1.1 billion in assets under management, $245+mm in annual premium and 200 employees, has been an integral part of the Worker’s Compensation, General Liability and Commercial Insurance markets in the Southeast for 32 years.

Todd also serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Sagicor Life Insurance company, part of the Sagicor group, a 150-year-old insurer based in Barbados and Bermuda, and publicly traded on the Toronto Stock exchange. He also serves as chair of the Sagicor Investment and Risk board committee, with $5+ billion in assets under management.

Todd attended Appalachian State University as an undergraduate and received a law degree from Mercer University’s Woodruff School of Law in Georgia.

Andrew (Andy) Payne has more than 30 years of leadership experience in credit risk and portfolio management. As Chief Credit Officer for Corebridge’s Investments organization, Andy has credit oversight of Corebridge’s Investment Portfolio across all asset classes and leads the Investment Credit team. He joined Corebridge in 2014 as non-Americas Head of Investment Credit in the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) department and in 2017 was appointed as ERM Head of Investments Credit. Prior to Corebridge, Andrew spent 24 years at Barclays in various leadership positions in credit risk and portfolio management, structuring, treasury and corporate and real estate lending.

Andy received his MBA from the London Business School and a Bachelor of Arts degree (Hons) in Chemistry from the University of Oxford. He is a former Board Member of the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers.

Ms. Potenta joined Golub Capital in 2024 and is a Managing Director and Head of Insurance Solutions within the Investor Partners Group. She is responsible for offering tailored and diversified direct lending solutions to insurance clients for the Firm. Prior to joining Golub Capital, Ms. Potenta was a Senior Managing Director at MetLife Investment Management, where she was the Global Head of Private Capital and responsible for managing the assets of insurance companies, pensions and a portfolio of private debt and equity investments. Prior to this position, she was a Senior Director and Head of International Private Placements at New York Life Private Capital Investors, where she led all non-US private placement sourcing, origination, credit underwriting and portfolio management. Prior to that, she was a portfolio manager on the Asset-Backed Securities team at Voya Investment Management and began her career in public accounting. Ms. Potenta earned her BSBA degree in Accounting from Bucknell University. She received an MBA in Finance from the Roberto C. Goizueta Business School at Emory University.