Experience

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  Guild Insurance

  • Australia
  • Insurance
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • General Manager - Guild Insurance

    • Apr 2015 - Present

    Guild Insurance is a leading specialist general insurer offering a broad range of commercial and personal insurance products through industry partnerships to over 80,000 customers nationally. Guild underwrites almost $200m in Gross Written Premium and has over 200 staff with a head office in Melbourne and 8 distribution centres around Australia.Key achievements:> Within first 12 months turned around declining revenue trend achieving revenue growth targets for the first time in five years.> Sustainable, profitable growth delivered by focusing on creating a frictionless customer experience including new digital marketing and distribution capability as well as entering new distribution partnerships at a rate of 4 p.a.

  • General Manager Underwriting

    • Jun 2011 - Apr 2015

    General Management oversight of Guild Insurance's:1) Underwriting Division2) Acerta Divison - Guild's Intermediated Insurance Offer3) Analytics Team4) Reinsurance FunctionKey achievements:> Led a large team that specified technical product requirements, tested and deployed the Guidewire PolicyCenter system across personal and commercial product lines.> Led a team to rationalise and enhance 70 products into a modular set of 14 base products each supporting multiple tailored market variants. Products recognised as a competitive advantage by new business partners.> Designed and implemented new sources of general insurance income through new product development (e.g. cyber insurance, management liability) and new distribution models.

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  Integrated Risk Solutions

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • Director

    • Sep 2008 - Jun 2011
    • Melbourne, Australia

    Established a general insurance management consultancy rapidly building a sustainable client base across Top 20 ASX listed insurers, mid cap & niche underwriters and reinsurers. Assignments covered: underwriting, capital and reinsurance management capability assessment and development.

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  Avant Mutual Group Limited

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • Head of Portfolio and Risk Management

    • Oct 2010 - May 2011
    • Melbourne, Australia

    Role was responsible for pricing, portfolio management and risk management of Avant insurance portfolios

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  CGU Insurance

  • Australia
  • Insurance
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Head of Product and Underwriting

    • Sep 2006 - Aug 2008

    Reporting to the CEO of CGU the role had responsibility for risk selection, reinsurance, coverage, pricing and profitability of $1.9b of intermediated personal and commercial lines business across the Rural, SME Commercial and Corporate/Risk Managed channels.

  • Manager Commercial Pricing and Decision Support

    • Nov 1999 - Aug 2006

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  PricewaterhouseCoopers

  • Melbourne & London

  • Various

    • Feb 1994 - Sep 1999
    • Melbourne & London