Shannon Lowry Bender is Executive Vice President, Group General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at RenaissanceRe. She joined the company in 2021 and is responsible for legal, regulatory, government affairs and compliance matters on a global basis. Ms. Bender has a wealth of legal experience across corporate law, governance and mergers & acquisitions and most recently served as Senior Vice President and Chief Corporate Counsel of CIT Group Inc., a publicly listed financial and bank holding company. Prior to working at CIT, Ms. Bender was a Partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in New York. Ms. Bender earned a B.S. in Telecommunications from the University of Florida and a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law.