Golub Capital Expands Insurance Investment Banking Business with Jennifer Potenta Appointment as Head of Insurance Solutions

Golub Capital is expanding its insurance investment banking business by appointing Jennifer Potenta as its managing director and head of insurance solutions. Prior to joining Golub Capital, Potenta was the global head of private fixed income and alternatives at MetLife, where she managed a $120 billion portfolio of private debt and private equity investments.

Investment firms are increasingly targeting life and annuity issuers as a lucrative market, and Golub Capital is no exception. The company specializes in managing private equity assets, private credit assets, broadly syndicated loan programs, collateralized loan obligation programs, and business development company programs. With Potenta on board, Golub Capital aims to sell capital-raising and asset-management services to insurers worldwide.

Golub Capital currently has $65 billion of capital under management and has a proven track record of success in the industry. In 2023, the firm was one of the lead investors in helping Reinsurance Group of America set up the Ruby Re “sidecar,” a reinsurance arrangement designed to share risk with outside investors.

Potenta holds a bachelor’s degree from Bucknell and a master’s degree in business from Emory. She began her career in insurance asset management in 2006 at Voya before spending approximately 16 years at MetLife. Now serving as Golub Capital’s managing director for insurance solutions, Potenta brings a wealth of industry expertise and experience to the firm’s growing insurance investment banking business.