{"id":5477,"date":"2010-03-30T17:37:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T06:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=5477"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:09:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:09:08","slug":"new-tower-state-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2010\/03\/30\/new-tower-state-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"New TOWER State Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOWER Australia has appointed Aviva&#8217;s <strong>Craig Parker<\/strong> as the\u00a0new State Manager for the insurer&#8217;s Victoria\/Tasmania operations, following the recent departure of <strong>Pina Sciarrone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Mr Parker, who was also the\u00a0Victoria\/Tasmania State Manager at Aviva, is the latest among his former colleagues\u00a0to establish\u00a0positions with other firms following the\u00a0absorption of Aviva into the\u00a0NAB\/MLC Group last year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5482\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5482\" style=\"width: 114px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2010\/03\/parker-craig1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5482      \" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2010\/03\/parker-craig1.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Parker\" width=\"114\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2010\/03\/parker-craig1.jpg 2448w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2010\/03\/parker-craig1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 114px) 100vw, 114px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Parker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TOWER&#8217;s Head of Distribution, <strong>Patrick O&#8217;Connor<\/strong>, said Mr Parker highlighted his company&#8217;s\u00a0commitment to the independent financial adviser market throughout Australia and, in particular, Victoria and Tasmania.<\/p>\n<p>TOWER also notes the recent recruitment of another ex Aviva staffer, <strong>Brett Smith<\/strong> as its Victoria\/Tasmania State Underwriting Manger.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Parker commences his role with TOWER on 12 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOWER Australia has appointed Aviva&#8217;s Craig Parker as the\u00a0new State Manager for the insurer&#8217;s Victoria\/Tasmania operations, following the recent departure of Pina Sciarrone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-appointments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477","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=5477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}