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Niklaus Hilti is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Credit Suisse Insurance Linked Strategies Ltd., which manages a number of funds focused on insurance linked investments. He has worked in the reinsurance and ILS industry since 2000 and has been with the Credit Suisse ILS team since 2004 when the team was managing ILS portfolios at Bank Leu, a Credit Suisse Group subsidiary. Between 2002 and 2004, Niklaus was Head of Non-Life Actuary Reinsurance at Helvetia Insurance Group, where he focused on the Swiss group’s international reinsurance business. Before that, he served as Head of the Natural Catastrophe Pricing team at Converium Ltd. a top 10 reinsurance company at the time. Between 2000 and 2001, Niklaus worked as a Pricing Actuary at Zurich Re.