The founders

David J McKibbin & Simon Hudson

Co-Founders, Arkaya Risk

Arkaya's thesis is witnessed, not constructed. The five capital moments have been met from every side of the table: underwriting, broking on the sell-side, and corporate on the buy-side.

The founders

David J McKibbin

Co-Founder · London · Former FCA SMF1

Four decades across the London insurance and structured trade credit market, industrial conglomerates and regulated financial services. Post-9/11 he underwrote an AIG property book co-underwritten 50:50 with Berkshire Hathaway's National Indemnity, from inside two diametrically opposed governance models, both AAA-rated at the time; one later required a government rescue. He held the FCA Chief Executive controlled function (SMF1) and co-founded XS Reserve, whose excess-of-loss trade credit instrument won a 2016 Business Insurance Innovation Award and now sits within Centinel 10 Ltd.

djm@arkayarisk.com · +44 (0)7972 178759 · LinkedIn

Simon Hudson

Co-Founder · United States

Co-founder of Arkaya Risk, based in the United States.

smh@arkayarisk.com · +1 (914) 309-6397

Witnessed, not constructed

Insurance was built as the financial canary that prices risk on evidence; compliance culture hollowed that function out; Arkaya uses AI to reinstate it. The governance failure precedes the financial failure. It always does.

Resilience Capital is built.
Not asserted.