{"id":71997,"date":"2024-06-18T12:09:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T02:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=71997"},"modified":"2025-03-14T12:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T01:02:20","slug":"tal-appoints-new-group-ceo-and-managing-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2024\/06\/18\/tal-appoints-new-group-ceo-and-managing-director\/","title":{"rendered":"TAL Appoints New Group CEO and Managing Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"header row\">\n<div class=\"intro\">\n<h3>The news that TAL has appointed a new MD to replace Brett Clark, who has been promoted to a regional role with parent company, Dai-ichi Life drew strong reader interest this week&#8230;<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>TAL has appointed <strong>Fiona Macgregor<\/strong> as its new Group CEO and Managing Director, following\u00a0 the promotion of <strong>Brett Clark<\/strong> to the role of CEO and Managing Director of Asia-Pacific for Dai-ichi Life Group, TAL\u2019s parent company.<\/p>\n<p>Macgregor takes on the new role effective from 1 October 2024. She will continue in her current role as Chief Executive \u2013 Individual Life until then as part of a leadership transition with Clark over the next three months.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_71999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71999\" style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Fiona-Macgregor_appointed_Group_CEO_and_Managing_Director_TAL_from_October-2024-e1718676020117.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-71999\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Fiona-Macgregor_appointed_Group_CEO_and_Managing_Director_TAL_from_October-2024-e1718676020117-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Fiona-Macgregor_appointed_Group_CEO_and_Managing_Director_TAL_from_October-2024-e1718676020117-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Fiona-Macgregor_appointed_Group_CEO_and_Managing_Director_TAL_from_October-2024-e1718676020117-853x1024.jpg 853w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Fiona-Macgregor_appointed_Group_CEO_and_Managing_Director_TAL_from_October-2024-e1718676020117-768x922.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Fiona-Macgregor_appointed_Group_CEO_and_Managing_Director_TAL_from_October-2024-e1718676020117-1280x1536.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Fiona-Macgregor_appointed_Group_CEO_and_Managing_Director_TAL_from_October-2024-e1718676020117-696x835.jpg 696w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Fiona-Macgregor_appointed_Group_CEO_and_Managing_Director_TAL_from_October-2024-e1718676020117-1068x1282.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Fiona-Macgregor_appointed_Group_CEO_and_Managing_Director_TAL_from_October-2024-e1718676020117-350x420.jpg 350w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Fiona-Macgregor_appointed_Group_CEO_and_Managing_Director_TAL_from_October-2024-e1718676020117.jpg 1360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fiona Macgregor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A statement from TAL says that leveraging her broad expertise across innovation, customer, partnerships, brand and technology, Macgregor will be responsible for leading TAL through its ongoing strategy in the life insurance and retirement markets with a focus on digitally enabled customer and partner experience.<\/p>\n<p>Clark says it has been a privilege to lead TAL through a significant period of growth and industry change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTAL is a company with a long and proud history in Australia, and I\u2019ve seen every day the difference that we make to the lives of our customers and their families.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_71998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71998\" style=\"width: 149px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark_appointed_CEO_and_Managing_Director_Asia-Pacific_for_Dai-ichi-Life-Group_TALs-parent-company.--scaled-e1718676128456.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-71998\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark_appointed_CEO_and_Managing_Director_Asia-Pacific_for_Dai-ichi-Life-Group_TALs-parent-company.--scaled-e1718676128456-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark_appointed_CEO_and_Managing_Director_Asia-Pacific_for_Dai-ichi-Life-Group_TALs-parent-company.--scaled-e1718676128456-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark_appointed_CEO_and_Managing_Director_Asia-Pacific_for_Dai-ichi-Life-Group_TALs-parent-company.--scaled-e1718676128456-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark_appointed_CEO_and_Managing_Director_Asia-Pacific_for_Dai-ichi-Life-Group_TALs-parent-company.--scaled-e1718676128456-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark_appointed_CEO_and_Managing_Director_Asia-Pacific_for_Dai-ichi-Life-Group_TALs-parent-company.--scaled-e1718676128456-696x870.jpg 696w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark_appointed_CEO_and_Managing_Director_Asia-Pacific_for_Dai-ichi-Life-Group_TALs-parent-company.--scaled-e1718676128456-336x420.jpg 336w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark_appointed_CEO_and_Managing_Director_Asia-Pacific_for_Dai-ichi-Life-Group_TALs-parent-company.--scaled-e1718676128456.jpg 887w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brett Clark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m excited by my new opportunity with Dai-ichi Life Group, and to be able to continue to support Fiona and TAL as part of my CEO role in Asia-Pacific.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TAL Board Chair <strong>Mark Joiner<\/strong> says Macgregor is an impressive leader with more than 10 years in senior leadership roles at TAL. She has a &#8220;&#8230;strong track record of leadership in the business and has helped to grow and shape TAL.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He says Macgregor knows the business well \u201c\u2026and has a deep appreciation for the needs and expectations of our customers and partners in the evolving life insurance and retirement income markets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says the Board has been carefully preparing for CEO succession and is confident she is the right person to lead TAL into the future.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked Clark for his leadership of TAL over the last nine years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has built a strong executive team and provided the vision and leadership enabling TAL to grow and go from strength to strength to become one of Australia\u2019s leading life insurers during a significant period of change for the life insurance industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Macgregor says she is looking forward to leading TAL Australia through its next stage of development\u00a0 and feels \u201c&#8230;privileged to have this opportunity to lead the TAL team.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72007\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark-and-Fiona-Macgregor_TAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-72007\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark-and-Fiona-Macgregor_TAL-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark-and-Fiona-Macgregor_TAL-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark-and-Fiona-Macgregor_TAL-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark-and-Fiona-Macgregor_TAL-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark-and-Fiona-Macgregor_TAL-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark-and-Fiona-Macgregor_TAL-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark-and-Fiona-Macgregor_TAL-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark-and-Fiona-Macgregor_TAL-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark-and-Fiona-Macgregor_TAL-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2024\/06\/Brett-Clark-and-Fiona-Macgregor_TAL-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brett Clark and Fiona Macgregor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news that TAL has appointed a new MD to replace Brett Clark, who has been promoted to a regional role with parent company, Dai-ichi Life drew strong reader interest this week&#8230; TAL has appointed Fiona Macgregor as its new Group CEO and Managing Director, following\u00a0 the promotion of Brett Clark to the role of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":72003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,48,8291],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-appointments","8":"category-company-news","9":"category-story-of-the-week"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71997","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=71997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}