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RENAISSANCERE
HOLDINGS LTD.
Renaissance House
8-20 East Broadway
Pembroke HM 19 Bermuda
Jean D. Hamilton Nominated to
RenaissanceRe Board of Directors
Pembroke, Bermuda, May 2, 2005 -- RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.
(NYSE: RNR) announced today that its Board of Directors has nominated
Jean D. Hamilton, 58, for election to the Board at the Company's
Annual Meeting of Shareholders on June 9. If elected, Ms.
Hamilton will bring the total number of Directors to 10 and its number
of independent Directors to eight.
Ms. Hamilton was Executive
Vice President of Prudential Financial, Inc., serving as Chief
Executive Officer of Prudential Institutional from November 1998
to November 2002. From 1988 through 1998, she held various other
positions with Prudential Financial, Inc., including President of the
Prudential Diversified Group and President of the Prudential Capital
Group. Currently, she is a private investor as well as a consultant,
and serves as a Trustee of First Eagle Funds and First Eagle Variable
Funds.
"Ms. Hamilton is an individual with
great financial and investment expertise, and her talent and insight
will be of great value on our Board," said James N.
Stanard, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of
RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. "We look forward to her
contributions."
RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. is a
global provider of reinsurance and insurance. Our business consists of
two segments: (1) Reinsurance, which includes catastrophe reinsurance,
specialty reinsurance and certain joint ventures and other investments
managed by our subsidiary RenaissanceRe Ventures, and (2) Individual
Risk business, which includes primary insurance and quota share
reinsurance.
Cautionary Statement under
"Safe Harbor" Provisions of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements made in this news
release contain information about the Company's future business
prospects. These statements may be considered
"forward-looking." These statements are
subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those set forth in or implied by such
forward-looking statements. For further information regarding
cautionary statements and factors affecting future results, please
refer to RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.'s filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004.
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INVESTOR CONTACT:
Todd R. Fonner
Vice President and
Treasurer
RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.
(441) 295-4513
MEDIA CONTACT:
David Lilly or Dawn Dover
Kekst and
Company
(212) 521-4800
