Aviva Australia today announced a number of senior appointments to be based in Melbourne and Adelaide.
Aviva Australia today announced a number of senior appointments to be based in Melbourne and Adelaide.
Richard Bellis has been appointed national manager - business development, with responsibility for the business development teams based in each state.
At present, Richard is Aviva’s state manager in New South Wales and will move to Melbourne once a successor has been appointed.
Dale Wright takes on the new role of national key account manager, assuming responsibility for the management of senior relationships with a number of key distribution dealer groups and partners.
Both Richard and Dale will report through to Paul Northey, general manager distribution.
Dale is currently state manager for South Australia and will be relocating back to Melbourne for his new role.
Former ING business development manager (BDM), Mike Krelshem has been appointed state manager for South Australia and will take up the role immediately.
In a further boost for Aviva’s presence in South Australia, Stuart James has been appointed as the new business development manager. Prior to joining Aviva, Stuart was an outperforming BDM at AMP.
According to Aviva’s general manager distribution, Paul Northey, these key appointments are integral to Aviva Australia’s sales and distribution strategy for 2005.
"All of the people appointed to these key roles have extensive experience in financial services and bring to the team an in-depth knowledge of the needs of financial advisers and their clients– and that is what makes our business successful. They are outstanding additions to our team," says Paul.
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Notes to editors:
- Aviva Australia is a group of two specialist financial services companies: Navigator and Norwich Union Life Australia Ltd. Portfolio Partners is the Australian funds management arm of Aviva plc. Through these companies we provide products and services in the areas of wealth creation and wealth protection for more than 300,000 customers throughout Australia.
- Globally, Aviva Australia is part of Aviva plc, the world’s fifth largest insurance group, the largest insurer in the UK and one of the top five life companies in Europe. Aviva was formed in May 2000 through the global merger of CGU plc and Norwich Union plc.
- Aviva is a leading provider of life and pensions products to Europe and has substantial businesses elsewhere around the world. Its main activities are long-term savings, fund management and general insurance. It has premium income and investment sales from continuing operations of A$74 billion, and more than A$592 billion of assets under management (as at 17January 2005). The group has more than 51,000 employees and 30 million customers worldwide.
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