Alex Kaplan leads the strategy for developing parametric and bespoke insurance solutions at Amwins, both independently and alongside traditional options. He also focuses on creating new products and capital sources for Amwins and its clients.

Prior to joining Amwins, Kaplan spent 12 years at Swiss Re, where he most recently served as Head of North America for the company’s Public Sector Solutions unit. In this role, he supported the needs of governments and international financial institutions in managing their financial risks to help society create effective responses to major challenges, including natural catastrophes and climate change, permanently transforming the industry's approach to these complex and growing risks. These initiatives ranged from helping to establish the US National Flood Insurance Program’s first engagements with the (re)insurance industry to assisting in the creation of the first parametric insurance policy on a natural asset, the Meso-American reef in Mexico. Kaplan co-developed a patented parametric windstorm insurance mechanism.

Kaplan has significant expertise in government finance, beginning his career with the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Ways and Means and later serving in the U.S. Department of the Treasury under Secretary Henry M. Paulson from 2006 to 2008.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Hobart College.