StormHarbour strengthens European platform with two senior hires
Monday, January 12, 2015

StormHarbour ("the Company"), the leading independent global markets and financial
advisory firm, today announces the appointment of Mike Turnbull as Managing
Director, Capital Markets, and Jonathan Spry as Head of Insurance Solutions andAdvisory. Their appointments underline the Company's commitment to add highly
experienced industry professionals and further build out its origination capabilities
across its core securities businesses. Both Mike and Jonathan will report to Antonio
Cacorino, Managing Principal, in London.
Mike Turnbull has 24 years' experience in investment and commercial banking,including eight years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he served as Head ofDebt Capital Markets, prior to his appointment as Head of Infrastructure Financing.
Mike will oversee StormHarbour's leading debt capital markets platform in London aspart of its objective to help clients diversify their capital markets access throughinnovative product solutions for their Funding and Capital Management requirements.
His appointment continues to establish StormHarbour's origination capabilities acrossa broad range of clients, including financial institutions, corporates and funds.
Mike previously spent 16 years at Morgan Stanley, where he held leadership roles in
Capital Markets and Investment Banking. During this time he was responsible for themanagement of the bank's key client relationships in Europe and the Middle East andthe origination of debt, derivatives and capital markets products; executing a number ofstrategic transactions for clients including the Bank of England, Network Rail andmajor financial institutions.

Jonathan Spry joins from RBS, where he was previously Head of Insurance CapitalManagement (Structured Solutions), and more recently, Head of UK Insurance
Coverage. Jonathan will focus on developing StormHarbour's existing insurance
capabilities, replicating the success of the firm's growing Structuring & Advisorydivision, providing advisory services, capital management and risk solutions to life andnon-life (re)insurers, with a particular emphasis on sourcing alternative assets andsecuritisation structures.
Prior to RBS, Jonathan was a Senior Vice President in the capital markets division ofthe global reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, where he was responsible forcapital markets advisory and the origination, structuring and execution of insurance
linked securities. Between 2003 and 2007 Jonathan was Head of Insurance Linked
Securities in Europe at Standard & Poor's, and has also held positions at Morgan
Stanley and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. He brings to StormHarbour a wealth ofexpertise across the insurance sector, particularly across insurance capital, Solvency II,risk transformation, credit risk mitigation, alternative assets and securitisation.
Antonio Cacorino commented: "StormHarbour continues to align its advisory and debt
capital market services to the evolving funding and capital requirements of our clients.
As part of this, I'm delighted to welcome Mike and Jonathan on board. They are bothleading market practitioners who will complement and build upon our existing
capabilities and will ensure StormHarbour is well positioned to support our clients'
needs, as we head into 2015 and beyond."