{"id":48949,"date":"2020-03-05T13:27:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T02:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=48949"},"modified":"2020-03-05T13:28:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T02:28:10","slug":"integrity-life-ceo-to-retire-mid-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2020\/03\/05\/integrity-life-ceo-to-retire-mid-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrity Life CEO to Retire Mid-Year\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.integritylife.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Integrity Life<\/a> has announced that <strong>Chris Powell<\/strong> intends to retire after a 40-year career in financial services.<\/p>\n<p>The insurer says in a statement that Powell will transition to a capital markets role to lead the current capital raising, with Integrity Chief Financial Officer <strong>Lesley Mamelok<\/strong> appointed acting CEO under Integrity&#8217;s CEO succession plan.<\/p>\n<p>It says the board has started an executive search for Powell\u2019s successor.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman <strong>Eric Dodd<\/strong> wished Powell well in his forthcoming retirement on behalf of the board.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chris retires knowing that he has made an exceptional contribution to Integrity, having successfully driven the launch of one of Australia\u2019s newest insurance companies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48952\" style=\"width: 144px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/Chris-Powell-e1583374012768.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-48952\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2020\/03\/Chris-Powell-e1583374012768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Powell &#8230;looking forward to a change of pace.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The statement notes that as founding CEO for five years and a significant shareholder, Powell was the driver of Integrity\u2019s establishment.<\/p>\n<p>He says: \u201cHaving spent the last five years fulfilling my entrepreneurial ambition to launch a disruptive, innovative new life insurer, I\u2019m looking forward to a change of pace, but will continue to support Integrity in any way I can\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Integrity launched to the retail adviser market in March 2019, following its successful roll-out to the group market in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Integrity Life has announced that Chris Powell intends to retire after a 40-year career in financial services. The insurer says in a statement that Powell will transition to a capital markets role to lead the current capital raising, with Integrity Chief Financial Officer Lesley Mamelok appointed acting CEO under Integrity&#8217;s CEO succession plan. It says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":48954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-company-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48949","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}