Paul S. Giordano
Senior Advisor

Paul S. Giordano is a Senior Advisor to the Committee. He currently serves as Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary of Ironshore Insurance group.  Since 2005, Mr. Giordano has been a Director of Primus Guaranty, Ltd.

Mr. Giordano served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Deputy Chairman of Syncora Holdings Ltd. (formerly known as Security Capital Assurance Ltd.) (NYSE:SCA) from March 2006 until August 2008. Mr. Giordano served as Chief Executive for Financial Products and Services and Executive Vice President of XL Capital Ltd. (NYSE:XL), a provider of insurance and reinsurance coverages and financial products and services, from 2004 until 2006. Mr. Giordano was Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of XL Capital Ltd. from 1999 to 2004 and served as a director and officer of a number of XL Capital Ltd affiliates.

From 1997 to 1999, he served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of XL Capital Ltd. Mr. Giordano was in private practice at the law firms of Clifford Chance from 1993 to 1996 and Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton from 1990 to 1993.

Mr. Giordano is a Rhodes Scholar who holds degrees from Harvard Law School (1990, JD cum laude), Oxford University (1987, BA in Jurisprudence with Honors) and the University of Missouri (1985, BA summa cum laude).