Jeffrey S. Kenneson, CPA, CPCU, ARM

Kenneson Consulting LLC

South Burlington, VT – After nearly 35 years in the captive insurance industry, Jeff Kenneson has formed his own consulting company to assist entities in the formation and efficient utilization of their captive.  Jeff is well versed in the formation and ongoing management of all types of captives domiciled throughout the US, Barbados, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands. He has worked for a large broker as well as a single parent captive insurance company. He has formed and managed over 100 captives, ranging from single parent captives to risk retention groups to association captives to sponsored captives and has experience in all domiciles. 

Prior to forming Kenneson Consulting LLC, Jeff was President of Davies Captive Management (US) (“Davies”) and Senior Vice President of USA Risk Group and Strategic Risk Solutions (“SRS”), the three largest independent captive management firms in the world. During his 20 years at these three firms, he has served on 30 different boards of directors, was President of Davies Insurance Management, Davies’ sponsored captive operating out of Vermont, and he was President of Y-Bridge Insurance SPC, the SRS protected cell company operating out of the Cayman Islands. With these three firms, Jeff has formed many captives in the various US domiciles as well as in Barbados, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands.

Jeff has been a member of the Vermont Captive Insurance Association's ("VCIA") Legislative Committee since 2000 and has been a speaker at the VCIA captive conference.  He is a frequent speaker on panels for trade association conferences speaking on various captive insurance topics.  Jeff is a graduate of the University of Vermont where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting while being a three year starter on the Division I Varsity Baseball team earning the Ralph LaPointe Award his senior year for outstanding contribution to the UVM Baseball program.

Jeff has his Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license and holds the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and the Associates in Risk Management (ARM) designations.