Our People

Over the last 24 months, we have invested significant resources in our infrastructure and operations, with continued growth planned for the future. We continue to recruit and retain the very best professionals with the knowledge to understand our clients’ business requirements. In 2009, Shyam Moorjani – a seasoned Hedge Fund COO – joined our team as Managing Partner to head our operations. We also recruited a specialist insurance solicitor, David Heathfield, from city law firm Davies Arnold Cooper as our General Counsel.

We have the competitive edge: we are an established, privately-owned business with a specialist set of skills and experience in financial lines, and particularly in alternative investment sector.

Partner profiles

 

Shyam Moorjani, Managing Partner

Shyam’s main focus is to further strengthen all operational aspects of the business and meet the sophisticated requirements of our growing client base. Shyam is responsible for all client servicing matters and for developing new markets in Cayman Islands and Luxembourg.

Prior to Baronsmead, Shyam was COO and Director of the hedge fund business at Stenham, Head of Client Services at Key Asset Management and Head of Institutional Client Reporting at JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management.

Shyam qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand / Scottish Power and is a member of the U.K. Securities and Investment Institute. He holds an M.A. (Jt. Hons.) in Accountancy and Financial Economics and an M.B.A from London Business School.

 

Robert Kelly, Senior Partner

Robert is the founder of Baronsmead, which started in 2002. Over this time Robert has successfully grown the business and we now cover over 70 fund management groups, covering 400 funds and AUM in excess of USD 170bn.

Robert has over 20 years experience in the insurance industry. The majority of this time has been spent as an underwriter, mainly with Chubb, where he was responsible for Chubb’s UK & Ireland financial institutions underwriting. Having honed his analytical approach to insurance risk at Chubb, he has successfully transplanted this discipline into his activities as a specialist broker.

Robert is a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute and the UK Securities and Investment Institute. He is also an insurance mentor and member of the Sound Practices Committee for AIMA (Alternative Investment Management Association) and is the author of the insurance section for the AIMA offshore alternative fund directors’ guide.