John Cecil DeCaro

Mr. John C.
DeCaro is a Founding Principal & Senior Portfolio Manager at Elementum Advisors LLC.
He has managed a variety of reinsurance and risk-linked investment strategies since 1997.
Prior to Elementum, Mr. DeCaro co-managed the reinsurance and risk-linked investments team at Stark Investments from September 2005 through November 2009.
He held various positions such as Director of Cochran, Caronia Securities LLC jointly responsible for the firm’s asset management activities from January 2002 – August 2005; Head of RLI trading and research at Aon Capital Markets, instrumental in developing Aon’s expertise in the sales, syndication, portfolio management, and trading of RLI through his market-making and institutional sales coverage responsibilities from July 1997 – December 2001; and Head RLI and financial futures and options trader for Aon’s Financial Risk Management Group, co-managed RLI portfolio from June 1995 – June 1997.
He earned a BS in Finance from the University of South Carolina, an MS in Financial Markets and Trading from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and received the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1997.