CIS - Key Persons
David insurance career commenced as a tied agent with Colonial Mutual in Wellington back in October 1988. In 1994 along with three other brokers, formed Capital Financial Services (CFS) specialising in all aspects of General and Life insurance. In 2003 he moved to Hamilton where he separated his new business from CFS to form PlusFour Insurance Solutions servicing customers around New Zealand but primarily in Waikato and Bay of Plenty. In February 2012 he took on a short-term contract to assist with earthquake claims in Christchurch was extended several times and ended up in the senior role as Domestic Resolution Manager at Suncorp. That contract concluded in December 2019 and he now resides in Whitianga.
As a broker he has achieved numerous recognition awards and is now excited to be back broking and looking forward to creating peace-of-mind for many Coromandel residents through great insurance solutions.
David Warwood has joined the CIS Broking team as Administration Manager looking after our many eastern Coromandel clients from our Whitianga office. David has been in the broking business for over 2 years and was previously with Aon.
John has been in the insurance industry for nearly all his working life. He has held adviser roles before moving into management positions including the Agency business for Colonial Mutual General Insurance in Australia before turning to New Zealand where headed sales and marketing for the Colonial Group in New Zealand. John also held senior executive positions with GE as Managing Director of their mortgage business in New Zealand at a time when GE owned Wizard Home Loans and were New Zealand's largest non-bank lender. In recent times John has spent 7 plus years managing earthquake claims for Suncorp NZ which included the Vero, AAI, ANZ and AMP brands.
He now resides in Whitianga where he manages Coromandel Insurance Services and is the owner and Managing Director of Coromandel's only privately owned local radio station CFM.