Our Team

James has spent his career in executive leadership and legal counsel positions with international investment and hedge funds. Mr. Meehan was a managing director at Cantor Fitzgerald and New Oak Capital focusing on alternative assets, including evaluating for finance and acquisition over $45B of life settlement portfolios and structured product prior to co-founding and forming Rubicon Risk Analytics LLC, as Managing Principal and worked for the Bank of Bermuda in the corporate trust division focused on alternative asset classes. Ceded and sponsored by global institutions, Rubicon executed on a hedge fund hybrid strategy combining non-correlated cash flows/credit risk with longevity instruments. It had active book more than $6 billion covering most classes of longevity linked asset investment exposures.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Meehan has placed asset manager and investors in a variety of private place insurance products and fund structures for asset protection, tax efficiencies and global market reach. Today, Mr. Meehan is a Principal of Signal Point Capital, LLC, providing capital markets and investor opportunity management in addition to facilitating the daily operations of key asset origination relationships.

Michael has over 25 years’ experience as a quantitative analyst and financial engineer in institutional capital markets. He is known for focusing on esoteric financial asset classes and down the credit curve structured finance transactions, where his formal engineering background spurred development of proprietary analytic models and valuation methodologies.  His work was differentiated by regularly applying simulation techniques and stochastic processes to the valuation and trading of complex and especially distressed financial assets.

He has followed the emergence of the senior life settlement industry realizing certain market phenomena were preventing systematic capital formation and market expansion. Michael has worked with highly regarded consulting actuaries in the space and proposed alternative strategies and financial structures designed to optimize institutional capital formation and the development of consumer centric economic alternatives in the space.

Prior to launching Axis 1, Michael worked with select partners as a self-directed consultant and investment banker across several opportunities and various clients. His activities include structuring investments and sourcing capital related to real estate development projects, emerging alternative energy technologies and launching business platforms arbitraging established business models in various consumer finance sectors.

Robert is an experienced financial executive with strong knowledge of global capital markets. Over his career, Mr. Gatti held various executive positions at Cantor Fitzgerald, HSBC, Citigroup; and JP Morgan Chase prior to becoming the CEO of LPG Ltd.; a vertically integrated investment advisor, providing origination, structuring and advisory services institutional clients in the longevity linked asset market space. LPG was responsible for placing over $500MM of longevity exposure.

Over his career, Mr. Gatti has placed over $1 Billion in life contingent assets through a variety of investors and structures. Currently, Mr. Gatti, is the founder and President of Wharton Advisors Corp, providing investors structuring, origination and portfolio management services. Wharton has successfully raised assets to launch a Luxenberg based longevity fund and currently advises several clients on capital market and investment opportunities as well as providing asset management and servicing.

Mr. Gatti, received his Bachelors of Science in Business from St John’s University graduating Summa cum Laude.

Prior to starting a 20 plus year career in alternative assets, Robert Bloink served as Senior Counsel in the IRS’s Office of Chief Counsel where his focus was on insurance and financial structured products for the Large and Mid-Size Division. After leaving government service, Robert was a founding member of Rubicon Risk Analytics, LLC and along with his partner James Meehan, Rubicon were counterparties to aggregate and manage alterative assets for many leading global financial institutions. Robert Bloink subsequently has built out multiple asset portfolios, including bad debt portfolios and alternative debt structured pools.

Marcello is an executive director with extensive experience in capital and financial markets. He graduated in Private Equity & Venture Capital from Harvard University. Specialized in Financial Services in Latin America, he acted as a managing partner of large financial institutions in Brazil, building and selling companies in that space.

Marcello currently performs advisory services for companies in different industries and holds financial services licenses in the US and Brazil. He is fluent in 3 languages and focuses on interactional debt acquisition opportunities and capital markets.