{"id":77830,"date":"2025-06-30T13:23:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=77830"},"modified":"2025-07-04T13:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T02:02:54","slug":"new-chair-and-md-at-bombora-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2025\/06\/30\/new-chair-and-md-at-bombora-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"New Chair and MD at Bombora Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wayne Handley<\/strong>, the Founder and MD of <a href=\"https:\/\/bomboraadvice.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bombora Advice<\/a>, has been appointed Executive Chairman of the firm, with <strong>Niall McConville<\/strong> taking up the role of MD.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_77831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77831\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-77831 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/06\/Wayne-Handley.png\" alt=\"Wayne Handley\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wayne Handley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The changes, effective from 1 July 2025, follow news that <strong>Kevin Martin<\/strong> has stepped down as Chair, although he will continue as a board member.<\/p>\n<p>Martin has served as Chair since January 2016 and McConville has been a member of the Bombora board since April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Handley said it\u2019s exciting times and the strategic business opportunities for Bombora \u201care immense\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to positioning the organisation for continued success and growth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_77832\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77832\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77832\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2025\/06\/Niall-McConville.png\" alt=\"Niall McConville\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Niall McConville<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In welcoming McConville as Bombora\u2019s new MD, Handley described him as a seasoned financial services executive with a track record spanning two decades in advice, insurance, distribution, and strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNiall was responsible for numerous functions including sales, new business, underwriting, claims, and service \u2013 and played a role in helping to shape the future of financial advice in Australia,\u201d said Handley.<\/p>\n<p>McConville said his focus will be the next phase of Bombora\u2019s journey \u201c\u2026that will include enhancing operational efficiency, capitalising on growth opportunities in the life insurance sector and improving both adviser and client experiences\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Handley, the Founder and MD of Bombora Advice, has been appointed Executive Chairman of the firm, with Niall McConville taking up the role of MD. The changes, effective from 1 July 2025, follow news that Kevin Martin has stepped down as Chair, although he will continue as a board member. Martin has served as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":77835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77830","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\/77830","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}