{"id":45685,"date":"2019-07-22T09:22:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T23:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=45685"},"modified":"2019-07-23T19:48:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T09:48:15","slug":"senior-metlife-retail-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2019\/07\/22\/senior-metlife-retail-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior MetLife Retail Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45687\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45687\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/John-Ashton-e1563875009931.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-45687\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/John-Ashton-e1563875009931.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/John-Ashton-e1563875009931.png 268w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/John-Ashton-e1563875009931-250x300.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MetLife Australia&#8217;s new Head of Retail Product, John Ashton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MetLife Australia has announced two key appointments across its retail product and distribution areas.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>John Ashton<\/strong> has been appointed as MetLife Australia&#8217;s Head of Retail Product. Ashton has more than 30 years\u2019 experience in the industry, having worked across licensees, insurance, underwriting and product design for a number of insurers. His remit will be to lead the optimisation of the insurer&#8217;s modular product flagship range, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metlife.com.au\/partnerships\/advisers\/metlife-protect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MetLife Protect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45689\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/Dave-Evans-v2-2019-e1563875221211.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-45689\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/Dave-Evans-v2-2019-e1563875221211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/Dave-Evans-v2-2019-e1563875221211.jpg 2110w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/Dave-Evans-v2-2019-e1563875221211-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/Dave-Evans-v2-2019-e1563875221211-768x923.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/Dave-Evans-v2-2019-e1563875221211-852x1024.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Evans &#8230;will focus on licensee relationships<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Queensland-based <strong>Dave Evans<\/strong> has also joined MetLife Australia, as Strategic Account Manager.<\/p>\n<p>MetLife says Evans, who has spent more than 20 years in the industry will be focussed on licensee relationships during what the insurer describes as its sales team&#8217;s next stage of growth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Lippiatt<\/strong>, MetLife Head of Retail Sales, said: \u201cWe are delighted to welcome John and Dave to the business. They are both seasoned Retail insurance professionals who are well known to advisers and licensees alike. Their deep experience will help us shape our offer and drive our engagement with the market as we continue to accelerate our growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MetLife Australia has announced two key appointments across its retail product and distribution areas.<\/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-45685","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\/45685","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=45685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}