Bill Bartlett,
Non-Executive Director, Suncorp Group
Bill is a director of Suncorp Group, GWA Limited, Abacus Property Trust and Reinsurance Group of America (Listed on the NYSE ). He was a member of the Life Insurance Actuarial Standards Board from 1994 until 2007. He was formerly a partner of Ernst and Young and was Chairman of the Global Insurance Practice from 1991 until 2000.
Jacki Johnson was appointed Chief Executive Officer of IAG's New Zealand business in November 2010. She is also a director of Community First Credit Union and a member of the Community First Corporate Governance Committee.
Since joining IAG in 2001, Jacki has held several senior positions in both direct and intermediated insurance. Most recently she was chief executive officer of the Group's first dedicated online insurance business, The Buzz. Prior to this, Jacki was chief executive officer of business partnerships, managing IAG's risk management and safety services, New South Wales and Victoria workers' compensation fee based businesses, affinity groups, motor dealers and motor manufacturers insurance distribution businesses. She has also led organisational effectiveness and group strategy functions, and managed the integration of IAG and CGU's workers' compensation business.
Jacki has more than 20 years' experience in the insurance industry and has held senior positions with Allianz Insurance, HIH Insurance and IRS Total Injury Management.
Jacki is a former director of the New South Wales WorkCover Authority and the Personal Injury Education Foundation.
Jim Murphy
Executive Director Markets Group, Department of Treasury
Jim is responsible for policy relating to the financial system including prudential and corporate regulation; competition and consumer policy, and foreign investment. Previously Jim has been an Advisor with the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC and held several senior positions within Government including Head of Budget Policy - Dept. of Finance, Head of the Business Law Division - Attorney General's Dept and as Principal Adviser for Corporations Law - Treasury. These roles saw Jim lead a number of major Government policy initiatives including the corporate law economic reform program, new arrangements for the managed funds industry and the inter-governmental agreement for regulation of corporations and financial markets.
Karen's 15 years in the crisis management, business continuity and emergency management field has taken her around the world, managing assignments in the US, Europe, Asia, Australia the Pacific and New Zealand. She developed her knowledge in these areas as a lead consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Over the last 7 years Karen has provided specialist consulting advice to major corporate organisations and government agencies.
As well as working as a consultant, Karen spent two years as Emergency Manager for Wellington City Council, where she implemented emergency management plans as well as having high profile input into New Zealand’s emergency response planning and policy.
Karen chaired of a review panel commissioned by New Zealand's Earthquake Commission to review its catastrophe response programme. She also served on the Foundation of Research Science and Technology panel to assess applications for grants within the natural hazards sector.
Karl Marshall leads Quantium's Insurance Risk Management (IRM) practice. He is a senior general insurance actuary and an Appointed Actuary. Before joining Quantium in 2007, Karl was Chief Actuary, General Insurance at Promina.
Karl's areas of expertise include reserving, capital management and modelling, reinsurance analytics & strategy, financial modelling & planning, risk management and pricing strategy. Karl regularly advises Boards and senior management across a wide range of actuarial and strategic matters.
Karl Sullivan General Manager, Risk and Disaster Planning Insurance Council of Australia
As General Manager Policy, Risk and Disaster Planning, Karl is responsible for the facilitation of industry policy and initiatives regarding emerging risks such as climate change, fraud, and community resilience; as well as coordinating the industries response and partnership with Government following a significant catastrophe event.
Karl brings with him significant experience in the disaster planning & risk management field. Prior to joining the Insurance Council, Karl was responsible for global disaster planning, response & mitigation for the Qantas group of companies. In conjunction with that role Karl was active in international and domestic forums focussed on a wide range of disaster events and emerging risks. Prior to Qantas Karl enjoyed a career in the Royal Australian Air Force, including several operational flying tours and appointments responsible for consequence management and disaster planning.
Professor John McAneney is the Director of Risk Frontiers, an independent research centre based at Macquarie University in Sydney. His research background is in environmental physics, boundary-layer meteorology, quantitative risk analysis and natural hazard risks. He is the author of some 90 scientific papers, Where Wine Flows Like Water - a culinary pilgrimage through Spain, and a soon to be published novel called Shifting Sands.
Risk Frontiers' goal is to better understand and price catastrophe risks in the Asia-Pacific region. It has catastrophe loss models for all of the key natural perils in Australia - earthquake, tropical cyclone, hail, riverine flood and bushfire. It also undertakes research on policy issues pertaining to natural perils, global climate change and risk communication.
Risk Frontiers undertakes relevant research for a wide variety of insurance and international reinsurance companies, governments and emergency management services, all with the aim of contributing towards the building of safer communities and encouraging the responsible management of natural hazard risks.
Natasha Fenech Executive General Manager, Customer Product & Pricing, Personal Insurance Suncorp Group
Natasha Fenech joined the Suncorp Group in 2006 during which time she has held several Executive General Management (EGM) roles across the General Insurance business including EGM Commercial Insurance Strategy, EGM General Insurance Strategy and EGM Commercial Portfolio, responsible for running the Workers Compensation, Commercial Motor and Small to Medium Enterprise Business Insurance Portfolios.
In her current role as EGM of Customer Product & Pricing, Natasha is responsible for the portfolio management of the Personal Insurance brands within Suncorp. She specifically manages product, pricing and marketing for all 12 Personal Insurance brands including AAMI, Suncorp, GIO, APIA and Shannons. She also has responsibility for the project management office, public policy and corporate affairs functions within the Personal Insurance business.
Natasha has gained extensive experience in strategic and actuarial disciplines over the last 20 years in the financial services sector working for organisations such as Royal SunAlliance, Zurich, A.T. Kearney and Citigroup.
Natasha holds a Bachelor of Economics, Bachelor of Mathematical Sciences, a Masters in Business Administration (AGSM) and is an Associate Member of the Institute of Actuaries.
Rob was appointed Managing Director of Wesfarmers Insurance in July 2007 following roles as Deputy Managing Director and Executive GM, Strategic Development. Prior to that Rob worked in Wesfarmers' business development team from 2004 to 2006.
Rob worked with Wesfarmers in 1993/94 in finance and accounting roles. Prior to rejoining Wesfarmers in 2004, Rob held senior roles in investment banking with Deutsche Bank AG in Hong Kong and Sydney focusing in the areas of cross border mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets, financing and restructuring.
Rob holds a Master of Applied Finance degree from Macquarie University, a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the Australian National University and has completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He has a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
As Managing Director, Rob has overall responsibility for all Wesfarmers Insurance businesses and is on the Wesfarmers Limited Executive Leadership Team. He is a director of a number of Wesfarmers group subsidiaries and is President of the Insurance Council of Australia. In his spare time, Rob enjoys spending time with his family, tries to keep fit and has an interest in wine.
Mark Milliner
Chief Executive, Personal Insurance Suncorp Group
Mark Milliner was appointed Group Executive, Personal Insurance in October 2009.
He was appointed to the Executive Committee in July 2006 when he became Group Executive, Commercial Insurance for Suncorp. In March 2007 he took on accountability for the combined Promina and Suncorp Commercial Insurance portfolio. As Group Executive, Mark has been responsible for all of the Suncorp Group's commercial insurance businesses operating in Australia, including the Suncorp, GIO and Vero brands, as well as the group's workers compensation and compulsory third party insurance businesses.
Mark joined Suncorp in 1994 and has worked on numerous strategic change management projects including the merger of Suncorp, Metway Bank and QIDC in 1996 and the integration of Suncorp and GIO in 2001. Throughout his career at Suncorp, Mark has held several senior insurance management positions, including General Manager Workers Compensation and General Manager General Insurance Property Claims.
Mark has extensive experience in insurance and organisational change management in Australia and Europe.
Paul Wedlock is Director and Head of Client Markets for Property and Casualty, Australia and New Zealand, Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd, based in Sydney.
Prior to taking up this role in June 2010, Paul was formerly Head of Product Management, Property, for the Asia region, with responsibility for both treaty and facultative business. Before moving into product management in 2006, Paul was Property Facultative Manager for Australia and New Zealand. Paul joined Swiss Re in December 1999 as a Senior Facultative Underwriter.
Paul's career in reinsurance began in 1991 at Munich Re in Australia in an underwriting role. Paul came to reinsurance from MMI Insurance where he worked in both claims and underwriting.
Paul is a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance and has a master's degree in Management from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management. He is married and has two sons.
Julian Watt
Creative Director George Patterson Y&R
Julian Watt got into advertising through a simple act of nepotism somewhere back in the 90’s at Leo Burnett.
Since then, he’s created some of the ad world’s landmark ideas for a range of clients spanning categories from cars, telcos, search engines, softdrinks and banks.
Julian prides himself on doing work that works and at the same time doesn’t add to the terrible pollution that (sadly) often best describes advertising.
“Hey, if we are going to take time out of someone’s life, let’s give something back at the same time?”
Advertising works best when it interacts, not just interrupts.
When he’s not in the agency, he’s with his loving family, probably in aisle 13 of the supermarket, pondering why iced-tea is never kept near the Cokes.
John Trowbridge
Chair National Disasters Insurance Review
John Trowbridge completed in 2010 a four year term as Executive Member of APRA (the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority). He had spent the larger part of his career as a consultant, having founded Trowbridge Consulting in 1981 which became a leading actuarial and management consulting firm in Australia and Asia during the 80s and 90s. He has also held senior executive positions with two major Australian based insurers. He served as a member of the Australian Treasurer's Financial Sector Advisory Council from 1998 to 2004.
In March 2011, John was appointed chairman of the Australian Government's Natural Disaster Insurance Review Panel, which completed its work in September 2011. He has now been appointed Interim Director of Australia’s new Centre for International Finance and Regulation, a research and educational centre sponsored by the Australian and NSW Governments and operated by a consortium of universities led by UNSW.
Andrew Kearnan
Head of Pac Rim Insurance Research
Merrill Lynch Australia
Andrew Kearnan is the Head of the Australian Research team and the long standing lead insurance analyst for BAML in Australia. He sits on the Australian Exco and Pac Rim Regional Research Exco. He joined Merrill Lynch in January 1997, taking on senior responsibility for the insurance sector eight months later. Andrew has been the covering the Australian Financials Market for more than 14 years (insurance 1997-2002, banks 2002-2004, insurers again 2005 -) and has been a top 3 rated analyst for most of that duration.
Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Andrew worked in a project management capacity at Royal & Sunalliance Insurance (Australia), a major global composite insurer, with a direct report to the Managing Director. He graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Master of Business & Administration degree, completing the degree under tuition scholarship at the University of Illinois (USA). He has an undergraduate Bachelor of Science (honours) degree with majors in Biochemistry and Microbiology. His thesis into the impact of Erythropoietin on Haem Synthesis won the Cancer Research Associations young investigator of the year award in 1987. He is married to an artist with twin daughters and enjoys fine wine, food and water sports.
Emma Herd
Director, Emissions & Environment Westpac Institutional Bank
Emma is Director, Emissions & Environment in Westpac Institutional Bank.
Working across all areas of Westpac, Emma is responsible for leading the bank’s strategic and commercial response to climate change and developing effective client solutions for managing emerging carbon risks and opportunities.
From 2001 to 2007, Emma worked in Westpac Group Sustainability, and played a key role in developing Westpac's leading sustainability position. Emma was responsible for producing seven of Westpac’s sustainability reports and for developing the Westpac Group Climate Change Strategy.
Emma has been the Westpac representative on government and industry forums such as the Australian Business Leaders' Roundtable on Climate Change (2006), the Australian Business and Climate Group (2007) and the New South Wales Carbon Markets Taskforce (2009). She continues to represents the bank in a number of key public forums and plays a critical role in the Westpac Group approach to managing climate change issues and impacts.
Prior to Westpac Emma worked in Canberra. She holds a Bachelor of Asian
Studies (Thai) Hons.
Campbell Chambers
Chief Operating Officer Bank of New Zealand Insurances
Campbell Chambers is the Chief Operating Officer of BNZ Insurances. In this role, Campbell oversees the strategic and day-to-day operations of the insurance arm of the Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), including management of its life insurance business and its relationship with general insurer IAG and commercial insurance broker Aon.
Campbell has been in the banking industry for 17 years and has held a number of strategic and leadership positions within BNZ’s parent company, the National Australia Bank (NAB) Group. In 2008 Campbell moved to BNZ as a Regional Managing Partner for BNZ Partners and was appointed to lead BNZ Insurances in March 2011.
Over recent years, Campbell has presented to the American Bankers Association, prepared and presented articles for various publications and conferences including ABARE , DAFF and the Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department.
Campbell holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of New England, as well as a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Studies and a Diploma of Financial Services. He has also completed professional development courses in strategic leadership, executive education, banking and company directorship in both Australia and New Zealand.
BNZ Insurance is owned by MLC and is one of New Zealand’s largest providers of Bancassurance products offering life insurance, income protection, health insurance, fire and general insurance and commercial insurance to BNZ customers. As specialists, BNZ Insurance develops products for BNZ customers that are designed to integrate with their financial needs, recognising the strength of the existing relationship and trust in the BNZ brand.
National Australia Bank is a financial services organisation with over 40,000 people, operating more than 1,800 branches and service centres, and responsible to more than 460,000 shareholders. It operates major financial services franchises in Australia, as well as businesses in New Zealand, Asia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
David Van is the founder and managing director of The De Wintern Group, a corporate communications consultancy with offices in Sydney and Melbourne. David has 20 years’ experience as a communications professional and has expert knowledge of reputation management, corporate communications, public affairs, media relations as well as being known as an expert in crisis and issues management. His career has spanned the globe from Australia to Asia, Europe and the U.S.
David has been called upon to manage some of Australia’s biggest issues and crises over the past fifteen years including three Royal Commissions: Esso Longford (1999), HIH Insurance (2002) and the Victorian Bushfires (2010). David has developed some of the industry’s most innovative planning platforms and tools to help organisations effectively manage issues. David regularly advises clients involved in both sides of litigation and specialises in class actions.
David has spoken and written on the following topics in various arenas:
Trent was appointed as the CEO of RACT Insurance on the 15th January 2009. He was previously with AAMI as Executive Manager for South Australia, Northern Territory, Tasmania, and Western Australia with responsibility for all facets of the general insurance operations across those geographies. Trent has wide experience in insurance with over 17 years in the industry, covering all aspects including pricing, risk selection & underwriting, customer service, sales, claims management, marketing and business development coupled with strong strategic and operational leadership.
