Founder and CEO

Nigel Edwards

Nigel has been creating and operating his own businesses for over 25 years.

Previously he worked for large multinationals in risk and capital markets, working and living in London, Paris, Sydney, New York/Old Greenwich.

He built his risk skills as innovative lead international reinsurance underwriter, structuring, pricing and negotiating thousands of risks, to build and hedge (or retrocede) international portfolios of natural catastrophe, liabilities and agri risk.  

When world market capacity became inadequate for peak risks, he moved to USA to pioneer cat option and then bond markets, helping evolve the overlap of insurance and capital markets and bring new analytic skills into the risk sector; and continuing to create and place innovative ART and parametric structures, but this time as an intermediary. 

Nigel then added investment and derivatives qualifications to his insurance ones, and continued to innovate, having established his own regulated corporate finance businesses in the UK, (the initial one was subsequently sold to FTSE quoted company), and at one stage also a segregated-cell insurance vehicle.   He has pioneered the use of large scale direct and parametric risk hedging structures, from short to 20+ year term, including house-price, mortality, revenue, investment and insurance portfolios, as well as using more established triggers. These structures, between £10m and £500m+, have stood behind and enabled acquisitions, development and risk management within corporates and institutions. 

Some of these were undertaken as principle, which also built skills in equity and debt fund raising, and business operations and management. Nigel was then approached to assist others, or work together as founding principles, in housing and operational leisure and related startups.  He has acted within leisure markets for over 15 years, first as a founder director of a £25m multi-activity leisure startup; then helping large holiday businesses evolve, completing M&A and equity & debt financings from £10 to £100m+, and has sought to meet an unmet need for specialist data analytics. 

His corporate finance and risk market skills are backed by deep hands-on experience of the success and challenges of company building and operation in companies from tiny to large multinational.  He says all the lessons, good and bad, from all the successes, and why some things didn’t work, are beginning to make him useful. 

Nigel is supported in SRP by Gemma Cardon and a network of great people in each business and trusted relationships outside them. 

If you would like to explore collaborating with us or you think we could help, please get in touch.