{"id":60292,"date":"2022-04-05T13:26:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T02:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=60292"},"modified":"2024-10-17T14:15:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T04:15:38","slug":"key-industry-appointments-iextend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2022\/04\/05\/key-industry-appointments-iextend\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Industry Appointments – iExtend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Market entrant iExtend<\/a> has made a number of senior appointments to its leadership and distribution teams including appointing Peter Clifford<\/strong> as QLD Distribution Manager.<\/p>\n

The company says Clifford has spent more than 30-years in the financial services industry and held several insurance specialist roles with insurance providers, adviser licensees and in corporate superannuation. He will work alongside Mark Stubbings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

iExtend\u2019s Head of Distribution Protip DasGupta<\/strong> \u00a0says the recent hires, not only expand the firm\u2019s national presence “…but brings together a deep team presence with experience across wealth insurance and superannuation.<\/p>\n

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Peter Clifford.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The company also announced the appointment of former CEO of Perpetual and MLC, Geoff Lloyd<\/strong> as Chair of the Advisory Board, while industry stalwart and former Bankers Trust Australia Director and global partner of Bankers Trust NY, Rodney Payne<\/strong> is Chairman and Co-Founder.<\/p>\n

A statement from the company says together these two appointments bring close to 70-years\u2019 experience to the business.<\/p>\n

Lloyd says that iExtend is providing those Australians who need it most, a no-cost lifeline in terms of maintaining a portion of their life insurance cover (see: Launch of iExtend<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Geoff Lloyd.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201ciExtend represents an opportunity for the insurance industry to demonstrate its innovation and commitment to being there for Australians by providing life insurance policyholders who are committed to cancelling their policies with another option.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company says that Payne also brings considerable industry experience, bringing together and running profitable customer-centric businesses from Bankers Trust Australia to having founded Zurich Capital Markets in early 2000.<\/p>\n

Addressing a Gap in the Market<\/strong><\/p>\n

He says iExtend fills a gap in the market, one which if addressed, “…can provide a lot more certainty and sustainability to insurance by helping Australians maintain valuable insurance life cover even when their circumstances change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commenting on the appointments across the business, iExtend CEO David Sarkis<\/strong> says the company has a fresh and innovative offer “…and it is great to see that not only advisers are responding enthusiastically, but also experienced industry professionals who know iExtend is filling a gap in the life insurance market.”<\/p>\n

“We are fortunate to have leading industry professionals at iExtend working to ensure advisers understand our offering and are provided the opportunity to retain and support clients in their best interest, despite having elected to cancel their life insurance,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Market entrant iExtend has made a number of senior appointments to its leadership and distribution teams including appointing Peter Clifford as QLD Distribution Manager. The company says Clifford has spent more than 30-years in the financial services industry and held several insurance specialist roles with insurance providers, adviser licensees and in corporate superannuation. He will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":60304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-appointments","category-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60292","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=60292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}