{"id":42698,"date":"2018-10-22T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=42698"},"modified":"2018-10-24T07:29:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T21:29:28","slug":"integrity-hires-head-of-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2018\/10\/22\/integrity-hires-head-of-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrity Life Hires Head of Product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New retail life insurance entrant, Integrity Life has named former CommInsure Senior Product Manager, <strong>William Rogers<\/strong>, as its new Head of Retail Product.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42699\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42699\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/William-Rogers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42699\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2018\/10\/William-Rogers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Integrity Life Head of Retail Product, William Rogers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rogers, who has worked in financial services for 20 years, has been involved in product development in a number of past roles, including his three years at Comminsure as well as during his time at AMP, REST Industry Super and BT Financial Group.<\/p>\n<p>At Integrity Life, he will continue to be involved in product development and strategy to ensure the insurer\u2019s offerings were meeting the needs of advisers and clients.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers said he had been \u201c\u2026given the rare opportunity to build a new product from the ground up\u201d which approached insurance differently than current processes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost products have been developed over the past 20 years, and are very difficult to change, even though consumer needs and technology have shifted seismically. At Integrity, it\u2019s a hands-on environment, where we are able to co-create a new type of life insurance, with input from advisers, ensuring they are part of the product,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Integrity Life Managing Director, <strong>Chris Powell<\/strong> said Rogers brings extensive experience in life insurance to the role as well as a commitment to innovation in the development of products in the life insurance sector that are not bound by legacy systems and processes.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers\u2019 appointment follows that of <strong>Mark McCrea<\/strong> and <strong>Jacqueline Little<\/strong> who were appointed as Head of Operations and Head of Group Product, respectively, last month (see: <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2018\/09\/04\/integrity-life-expands-executive-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Integrity Life Expands Executive Team<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Integrity also recently announced its roll-out of products to the retail advised market under a pilot scheme with a group of specialist insurance advisers (see:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2018\/07\/10\/integrity-life-names-retail-product-launch-date\/\">Integrity Life Names Retail Product Launch Date<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New retail life insurance entrant, Integrity Life has named former CommInsure Senior Product Manager, William Rogers, as its new Head of Retail Product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[4247],"class_list":["post-42698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-appointments","tag-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42698","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=42698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}