{"id":36068,"date":"2017-02-16T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T01:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=36068"},"modified":"2017-02-21T22:21:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T11:21:05","slug":"zurich-risk-team-boosted-by-raft-of-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2017\/02\/16\/zurich-risk-team-boosted-by-raft-of-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"Zurich Risk Team Boosted by Raft of Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich Financial Services Australia has completed a further expansion of its Life Risk Sales team which has been boosted by 11 new appointments, with nine being recruited from outside the business.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23898\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23898\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/Nathan-Taggart-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23898\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-23898\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/Nathan-Taggart-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Zurich Head of Strategic Development, Nathan Taggart\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zurich Head of Strategic Development, Nathan Taggart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Zurich has also promoted Strategic Account Manager, <strong>Nathan Taggart<\/strong> to the newly formed role of Head of Strategic Development where he will join the Distribution Leadership team and report to Zurich Life and Investments\u2019 Head of Distribution <strong>Kristine Brooks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Taggart will be replaced by former Lifebroker Head of Sales &amp; Operations, <strong>Tim Atley<\/strong> who will join Zurich\u2019s national Strategic Accounts team with responsibility for ongoing relationships with dealer group partners.<\/p>\n<p>The appointments add eight new Business Development Managers to the team with the 11 appointments spread across New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia to support Zurich\u2019s growth in key urban and regional centres.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36069\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/02\/Tim-Atley-cropped.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36069\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36069\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/02\/Tim-Atley-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Zurich Strategic Account Manager, Tim Atley\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zurich Strategic Account Manager, Tim Atley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Joining Zurich in NSW is former TAL Sales Development Specialist <strong>Annqua Murray<\/strong> and former financial adviser <strong>James O\u2019Dwyer<\/strong> who have taken on roles as Business Development Managers while OnePath New Business Team leader <strong>Liz Versace<\/strong> has joined as a Business Support Officer.<\/p>\n<p>In Queensland,\u00a0<strong>Tanya Woolnough<\/strong> joins as Business Development Manager having previously held a similar role at AMP.<\/p>\n<p>In Victoria, AIA Client Development Manager <strong>Emily<\/strong> <strong>Cossignani<\/strong> and NAB Financial Planning, National Insurance Manager <strong>Andrew Roberts<\/strong> have taken on roles as Business Development Managers alongside <strong>Sarah Nichols<\/strong> who has been promoted from within Zurich to the same role. <strong>Heena Mulchandani<\/strong> has also joined Zurich as a Business Development Associate in that state, moving from a paraplanning role at Salt Financial Group.<\/p>\n<p>In Western Australia, <strong>Richard Burton<\/strong> from Westpac Group\u2019s mortgage broking team and risk adviser <strong>Steve Coyle<\/strong> have joined as Business Development Managers.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks said the appointments have been made as Zurich prepares to revamp its product line-up later this year to more fully integrate those products acquired through the Macquarie Life acquisition in October 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich Financial Services Australia has completed a further expansion of its Life Risk Sales team which has been boosted by 11 new appointments, with nine being recruited from outside the business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,48],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-appointments","7":"category-company-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36068","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=36068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}