Our management team have decades of experience in the life industry.
They live and breathe life insurance, and it’s this passion that has brought them together with the shared vision of setting a new standard in life insurance.
Brett is an actuary with over 25 years’ of experience working in, and leading, almost all areas of life insurance businesses. Brett was previously the CEO of a US life insurance business. Prior to that, he was a senior executive at TAL Retail, where he developed the Accelerate business and subsequently played a key role in the transformation of that business into the leading life insurer in Australia.
John is a Chartered Accountant with more than 30 years’ experience in senior executive positions in financial services businesses across Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. He has been a key contributor in creating market leading businesses during his career at AMP Corporate Super, TOWER/TAL Life and Centrepoint Alliance.
David is a CPA with over 30 years’ experience in the insurance and superannuation sectors. Previously Head of Retail Product and Marketing and later Head of Market Development at TAL, David was responsible for implementing new products and services for the retail life market, including being project and operations executive for the Accelerate business unit.
Gemma has over 25 years’ experience in life insurance, both in Australia and the UK. Most recently, Gemma was National New Business and Underwriting Manager at BT. Gemma was responsible for the end to end new business and underwriting service experience for advisers.
Martin is a chartered accountant with over 15 years’ experience in life, general and mortgage insurance. He recently led Westpac General Insurance and previously ran the BT life insurance operations unit. He was also Head of M&A and Strategy at a leading Australian life insurer.
Murray has over 20 years’ experience in systems development in the life insurance industry. Murray was previously responsible for managing TAL’s adviser portal and quote/apply technology. Before that he was Senior Business Analyst for the development and delivery of TAL’s Accelerate offer.
Kirshan is a qualified actuary with over 17 years’ experience in life insurance. He has spent most of his career at South Africa’s largest life insurer, Sanlam, and was the Chief Actuary for their retail insurance business. During his time at Sanlam, Kirshan was involved in actuarial reporting, product development and pricing, business intelligence, risk management and compliance.
Scott has over 30 years of financial service experience and joined NEOS from Colonial First State, where he was Head of Insurance. Prior to that, Scott worked at BT for 10 years where he held various roles across product, marketing, strategy, and operations. In 2017, Scott was named the FSC Industry Leader of the Year.