Karen Clark

I guess so.

I've been doing it for a long time, since 1987.

But I do like to remind people I was a child prodigy and started when I was 10.

Just so you can—that's a joke—

That, I can't answer that.

Well, it's even more complicated because there are actually entities called retrocessionaires that reinsurers also reinsure.

There was not much science underlying those decisions.

There was not much analysis.

This is where it was really rule of thumb.

Then a portable computer weighed like 35 pounds or something, you know, carting this thing in.

Putting it up, I had maybe 100 British men sitting in the audience that had never seen one of these before.

Not only that, you haven't heard anything yet.

I was a woman coming in, an American woman, and I was seven months pregnant at the time.

Yes.

And so I waddled in pulling this computer and started showing them how they were going to do better by using this little computer model.

They were polite, you know, but there wasn't really any discussion.

Maybe some were falling asleep, but... The room was dead.

Well, you know, I'm pretty thick-skinned, so I was like, at least...

Most of them were still awake at the end.

The year was 1992.