Experience

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  DUAL New Zealand Limited

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Head Of Property

    • Oct 2021 - Present
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    DUAL is a Global Underwriting Agency Group for Lloyd's of London. We provide Insurance solutions for Commercial Property, Financial Liability lines, Casualty, Cyber Insurance, Events, Motor Fleets and Special Risks.My role focuses on managing our Commercial Property portfolio and maintaining its profitability. This includes reporting to our London based carriers at Lloyds and to DUAL's Senior Management team. On a day-to-day level I am involved in risk selection and profitable underwriting well as providing referral and technical support to our NZ underwriting team based in Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch.

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  IUA

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Senior Underwriter

    • Feb 2017 - Sep 2021
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    IUA was an independent Underwriting Agency for Lloyd's of London and was fully acquired by the DUAL group in September 2021.My role focused on profitable underwriting in New Zealand for London based Insurers. This included providing referral support to our NZ underwriting team, as well as representing IUA to our broker partners across NZ and some pacific islands.

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  Allianz

  • NZ Manager - Property (Mid-Corporate)

    • Jul 2013 - Jan 2017

    I managed the Allianz New Zealand "Mid-Corporate"​ Property portfolio and the NZ Property underwriting team. My role included market facing underwriting, referral underwriting, product development and reporting to management in Australia.

  • Business Development Manager

    • Nov 2012 - Jul 2013

    This role was as the local manager for Allianz in the Waikato region. While this position was only for 9 months during this time I enhanced and developed my underwriting, broker relationship management and portfolio underwriting skills.

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  QBE Insurance

  • Australia
  • Insurance
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Underwriter

    • Jul 2005 - Nov 2012

    I transferred to the QBE Hamilton branch where I became a commercial lines underwriter across all lines. The role focused mainly on SME and middle market risks and reported to the Regional Manager. Throughout the years in Hamilton I developed a number of key broker relationships in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty regions.

  • Graduate Programme

    • Jul 2003 - Jun 2005

    I initially started in the Insurance Industry with QBE on the graduate insurance fast-track programme in Auckland. I did 6 month assignments in each of the major underwriting divisions and in claims.