{"id":61393,"date":"2022-06-20T14:41:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T04:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=61393"},"modified":"2024-10-30T08:43:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T22:43:42","slug":"mlc-ceo-to-retire-replacement-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2022\/06\/20\/mlc-ceo-to-retire-replacement-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"MLC Life Insurance CEO to Retire &#8211; Replacement Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; color: windowtext;\">The Board of MLC Life Insurance has announced that CEO and Managing Director <strong>Rodney Cook<\/strong> intends to retire at the end of 2022 and that it has appointed <strong>Kent Griffin<\/strong>, Chief Finance Officer, to succeed Cook in late October this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; color: windowtext;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; color: windowtext;\">A statement from the company says that to ensure a smooth transition, Cook will continue to lead the business over the next five months. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61396\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/06\/Kent-Griffin-Picture-002-e1655698072471.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-61396\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/06\/Kent-Griffin-Picture-002-e1655698072471-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/06\/Kent-Griffin-Picture-002-e1655698072471-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/06\/Kent-Griffin-Picture-002-e1655698072471-351x420.jpg 351w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/06\/Kent-Griffin-Picture-002-e1655698072471.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kent Griffin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; color: windowtext;\">MLC Limited Chairman, <strong>Peter Grey<\/strong>, says he is pleased the board has chosen Griffin to take over as the new CEO, adding that <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; color: windowtext;\">he is an outstanding leader who brings a wealth of commercial and strategic experience to the role. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; color: windowtext;\">\u201cSince he joined us in early 2020, Kent has helped to strengthen our business and has overseen our return to profitability. He is a strong leader with a clear vision for the future of MLC life Insurance as we face the challenges of a fast-changing life insurance sector and ever evolving customer needs.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; color: windowtext;\">Griffin says he is honoured to have the opportunity to lead the company \u201c\u2026as we seek to achieve our ambition of becoming Australia\u2019s leading and most trusted life insurer.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61397\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61397\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/06\/Rodney-Cook-5-002-scaled-e1655698237411.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-61397\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/06\/Rodney-Cook-5-002-scaled-e1655698237411-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/06\/Rodney-Cook-5-002-scaled-e1655698237411-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/06\/Rodney-Cook-5-002-scaled-e1655698237411-852x1024.jpg 852w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/06\/Rodney-Cook-5-002-scaled-e1655698237411-768x923.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/06\/Rodney-Cook-5-002-scaled-e1655698237411-1278x1536.jpg 1278w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/06\/Rodney-Cook-5-002-scaled-e1655698237411-696x836.jpg 696w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/06\/Rodney-Cook-5-002-scaled-e1655698237411-1068x1283.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/06\/Rodney-Cook-5-002-scaled-e1655698237411-350x420.jpg 350w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2022\/06\/Rodney-Cook-5-002-scaled-e1655698237411.jpg 1459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rodney Cook.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; color: windowtext;\">He has more than 30 years\u2019 experience in financial services, both in Australia and internationally. Prior to joining MLC Life Insurance in February 2020, he was the Chief Financial Officer of TAL. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; color: windowtext;\">Before that, he was a partner of Ernst &amp; Young and Regional Chief Financial Officer of AXA Asia Life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; color: windowtext;\">Grey thanked Cook for \u201c\u2026guiding us successfully over the last two years. During his tenure, Rodney commenced an important change to our culture and mindset to one that is relentlessly focussed on the needs of our customers. We are confident this good work will continue after his departure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; color: windowtext;\">Cook has been CEO since June 2020 and &#8220;&#8230;has guided the business through a series of major changes including the completion of its technology transformation program (Sanagi), as well as meeting the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic,&#8221; the company says.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of MLC Life Insurance has announced that CEO and Managing Director Rodney Cook intends to retire at the end of 2022 and that it has appointed Kent Griffin, Chief Finance Officer, to succeed Cook in late October this year. \u00a0A statement from the company says that to ensure a smooth transition, Cook will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":61399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-appointments","category-company-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61393","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=61393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}