and actuary at Mid Ocean Reinsurance Company Ltd.

Mr. Whitehead, 37, comes to Mid Ocean Re after eight years as a property and casualty consultant with Tillinghast in London, Bermuda and Paris and two years with Bacon and Woodrow France in Paris, after his career began with the AMP society in Sydney, Australia.

Mr. Michael A. Butt, president and CEO of Mid Ocean Ltd. said: "We are very pleased to have Guy join Mid Ocean. He brings with him an extensive global experience in the actuarial field which will enhance Mid Ocean's worldwide growth strategy.'' Mr. Whitehead, who is a fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in both London and Australia, received a BA in actuarial studies from Macquarie University in Sydney and earned an MBA jointly through Macquarie and IMI in Geneva, Switzerland.

Mid Ocean Ltd., through its subsidiary Mid Ocean Reinsurance Company Ltd.

provides property catastrophe and other reinsurance to insurers and reinsurers on a worldwide basis.

Mr. Guy Whitehead.