Elementum Advisors promotes Medelyan to Chief Compliance Officer

Elementum Advisors, LLC, an alternative investment manager that specialises in collateralized natural catastrophe event reinsurance investments, has announced the promotion of employee Valerie Medelyan to the position of Chief Compliance Officer.

Elementum Advisors continues to promote from within, as the firm that manages portfolios and funds of catastrophe bonds and other insurance-linked securities (ILS) raises up performing staff and ensures a robust operational structure at the firm, as well as its future succession strategy.

Valerie Medelyan has worked for the company for more than five years from its Chicago headquarters.

She joined Elementum Advisors in 2021 as an associate counsel and compliance associate, before becoming a Vice President in 2023.

Since the start of 2025, Medelyan has held the role of Deputy Chief Compliance Officer & Associate Counsel.

This month, Elementum Advisors announced on LinkedIn, “We are proud to announce the promotion of Valerie Medelyan to Chief Compliance Officer.”

Earlier in her career, Medelyan spent time working in compliance at the Chicago Stock Exchange, as a regulatory analyst at FINRA and then spent three years as a senior compliance analyst at Ariel Investments, LLC, a global value-based asset management firm headquartered in Chicago.

Just recently, Elementum Advisors announced five promotions within its business, the most senior of which in that wave involved Andrew Lauer being promoted to Chief Operating Officer (COO).

As we also reported earlier this week, Elementum Advisors entered 2026 with its ILS assets under management having increased to $3.8 billion.