{"id":31365,"date":"2015-10-20T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=31365"},"modified":"2015-10-21T13:04:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T03:04:49","slug":"helmich-joins-affinia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2015\/10\/20\/helmich-joins-affinia\/","title":{"rendered":"Helmich Joins Affinia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former AMP senior exec, <strong>Steve Helmich<\/strong>, has re-emerged as the new Chair of Affinia, which has also announced a new head of the firm.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->While Helmich has been appointed Chair to the Affinia Board, <strong>Marcus O\u2019Sullivan<\/strong> will replace <strong>Craig Parker<\/strong> as Head of the risk specialist licensee firm.<\/p>\n<p>TAL Group CEO <strong>Brett Clark<\/strong> said \u201cIt is crucial that our board has strong governance structures in place and I am confident Steve will provide unique expertise and insight for our Affinia business to help drive our growth ambition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, O&#8217;Sullivan, who has been an executive with TAL since 2012, will commence as Head of Affinia, from 1 November.<\/p>\n<p>Clark said \u201cMarcus is passionate about financial advice and has over 20 years\u2019 experience [in] a number of senior management positions across life companies, reinsurers and dealer groups, including chief underwriter and director of life-risk.<\/p>\n<p>In thanking Parker for his services, Clark also noted &#8220;We are currently working with Craig on new opportunities within TAL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[twocol_one]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31403\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31403\" alt=\"Steve Helmich\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2015\/10\/Steve-Helmich-2.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Helmich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[\/twocol_one][twocol_one_last]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31402\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31402\" alt=\"Marcus O'Sullivan\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2015\/10\/Marcus-OSullivan.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcus O&#8217;Sullivan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[\/twocol_one_last]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former AMP senior exec, Steve Helmich, has re-emerged as the new Chair of Affinia, which has also announced a new head of the firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,6],"tags":[4247],"class_list":["post-31365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-appointments","category-dealer-groups","tag-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}