LIBERTY SPECIALTY MARKETS SINGAPORE PTE - Key Persons


Adrian Diggelmann

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer, Asia Pacific / Department / Finance
Adrian leads Liberty's Finance teams across the Asia Pacific region.

Adriana Petrie

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
Department Professional & Financial Risks Main Role Underwrites professional indemnity insurance for a range of clients including PI and IT professionals and design and construct consultants. Personal Profile Adriana joined Liberty in 2022 with over 10 years' experience in underwriting professional indemnity in Australia. Prior to that she worked in the London market for a Lloyds MGA. Adriana holds a Bachelor of Business degree.

Alan Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Head of Government & Workers Compensation, Casualty Australia / Department
Alan has been with Liberty since February 2001 and was previously a Senior Account Executive at Marsh Dublin.

Alan Thorn

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Head of Environmental Impairment Liability - Asia Pacific / Department
As Vice President, Head of Environmental Impairment Liability Asia Pacific, Alan has overall responsibility for technical underwriting and portfolio management across the Asia Pacific region.

Alex Koh

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter

Alicia Barnes

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Surety / Department
As a senior Surety underwriter based in the Brisbane office, Alicia is responsible for portfolio management, credit risk analysis and product development.

Alison Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Casualty / Department

Alison Kerr

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President & Claims Manager, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks Claims
Alison manages a wide range of Professional & Financial Risks claims.

Allison Reis

Job Titles:
  • Associate of ANZIIF
  • Liability Claims Specialist
  • Senior Claims Specialist & Tech Lead / Department
Allison is a Senior Claims Specialist based in the Sydney office and manages a variety of personal injury and property damage claims. Allison is an Associate of ANZIIF and has completed General Insurance and Business studies.

Andrew Carr

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Casualty / Department
Andrew's insurance career began in 1999 and he held a range of management/underwriting roles with both domestic and international insurers and broking houses prior to joining Liberty in 2012.

Andrew Soh

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, Construction / Department
Andrew is the Assistant Vice President of Construction. His current focus is on underwriting major Civil Construction projects including rail, roads and tunnels throughout Asia.

Angela Messih

Job Titles:
  • Senior Claims Specialist & Tech Lead, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks Claims
Department Professional & Financial Risks Claims Main role Her particular emphasis is on claims for cyber, fintech, IT liability, commercial crime, social engineering fraud, professional indemnity, directors & officers and statutory liability. Personal profile Angela joined Liberty in 2016 with 16 years' claims experience in the PI and financial lines insurance sector, gained across the Asia Pacific region, specifically, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Japan. Prior to joining Liberty, Angela worked as a Senior Professional Indemnity & Financial Lines Claims Officer for various international and domestic insurers. Angela holds a Bachelor of Laws degree, a Bachelor of Business degree and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice.

Angelo Maniatis

Job Titles:
  • Head of Casualty
  • Vice President, Risk Engineering Casualty & Professional & Financial Risks, Asia Pacific / Department
Angelo joined Liberty in 2009 in Melbourne as the head of Casualty Risk Engineering across Asia Pacific, before relocating to Perth where he added the role of Branch Manager of Western Australia to his responsibilities. Angelo has dealt with clients across construction, manufacturing, oil & gas, chemical plants, rail transport and infrastructure. Angelo is the head of Casualty in Asia. Based in Melbourne, he leads our liability teams in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and China.

Angus Kench

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Claims, Casualty, Workers Compensation and Crisis Management, Asia Pacific / Department
Angus oversees the Casualty, Workers Compensation and Crisis Management claims teams across the Asia Pacific Region working closely with underwriters, claims professionals and risk engineers to ensure optimum outcomes.

Ann Dang

Job Titles:
  • Head of Casualty and Professional & Financial Risks - Asia / Department / Professional & Financial Risks & Casualty
Ann is the Asia head for all products within Liberty's Casualty and Professional & Financial Risks portfolios. Ann has been based in Singapore since 2017 and initially led the Professional & Financial Risks team before adding Casualty in 2022.

Annie Leong

Job Titles:
  • Regional Underwriting Manager, LM Re - Asia Pacific

Ashley Leszczuk

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Crisis Management / Department

Ashley McCarthy

Job Titles:
  • Distribution Manager, Portfolio Solutions / Department / Professional & Financial Risks

Belinda Parker

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
Belinda is based in the Brisbane office where she underwrites the full suite of Professional Indemnity (PI) products, including Project PI, Information Technology Liability, Financial Institutions (Investment Manager's insurance and PI for Financial Institutions), Directors' & Officers' Liability and Cyber insurance.

Ben Hissey

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific / Department / Executive
Department Executive Main Role Senior Vice President - Asia Pacific. Personal Profile Ben is one of the founding team members of Liberty's corporate insurance operations in the Asia Pacific region, and has been part of the team for more than 21 years. For much of this time Ben was based in Singapore, where he spent 13 years leading Liberty's corporate insurance operations in Asia. During this time he grew Liberty's Asia operations into a US$100m revenued business with sustained profits and offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and China, plus a specialist team servicing South Korea. Ben returned to Sydney in 2018 and today has oversight for many of Liberty's Australian branch operations, Marketing plus a suite of specialty product lines including Marine, Crisis Management, Accident & Health and Surety. Ben has over 25 years' experience in the insurance industry. He is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Business Degree from the University of Technology.

Ben Woodbridge

Job Titles:
  • Claims Manager, Energy Property & Construction / Department / Construction, Energy & Property Claims
Based in Sydney, Ben oversees Liberty's Australian Construction and Energy claims portfolio, and also assists with the handling of larger Property claims.

Benny Wong

Job Titles:
  • Hong Kong Casualty Manager

Bill Hardie

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Crisis Management & Weather / Department

Billy Lau

Job Titles:
  • Portfolio Manager
  • Department / Professional & Financial Risks / Main Role

Brad Harvey

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks

Bree Scorsis

Department Casualty Main role Bree underwrites and manages the Casualty portfolio within the Affinity Team. Personal profile Bree joined Liberty in July 2007 and has over 15 years' experience in Casualty underwriting, ranging from commercial and corporate business to stockfeed liability.

Brett Gardiner

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President & Head of Energy, Property & Construction, Asia Pacific / Department
Brett started his insurance career in 1997 with an international reinsurer, before moving into a role as a direct insurance broker where he worked on some of Australia's largest energy and mining companies at that time. Brett is responsible for the underwriting and management of the Energy, Property, Construction and Terrorism products across Asia Pacific.

Cameron Hill

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter & Casualty Construction Segment Leader / Department
Cameron began his insurance career in Newcastle NSW with a large domestic insurer. From there he held a number of underwriting roles with both an international insurer, and Lloyd's syndicate, prior to joining Liberty's Sydney Casualty team in 2018.

Carolyn Payne

Job Titles:
  • Senior Claims Specialist, Workers Compensation / Department
Carolyn is a Senior Claims Specialist based in Melbourne. She manages Excess Workers Compensation claims across Australia for a broad range of Reinsureds, and also manages Seafarers claims. Carolyn joined Liberty in 2022. She has over 17 years of national experience working with self-insurers and insureds across corporate and industrial sectors in claims management, consulting, return to work, wellbeing and injury management.

Celine Choo

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, Energy Property & Construction / Department
Celine is a Senior Underwriter based in Singapore and responsible for underwriting Construction and Power risks across Asia.

Cennan Nwiran

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks
Department Professional & Financial Risks Main Role Underwriter specialising in Financial Institutions (FinTech, Investment Manager's Insurance and Professional Indemnity) and Directors & Officers Liability. Cennan joined Liberty in 2022 with over five years' experience in financial lines underwriting across multiple products at multinational insurance companies. Cennan holds a Masters of Applied Finance along with a Bachelors of Applied Finance & Economics.

Chris Maclean

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Professional & Financial Risks Manager - NSW / Department / Professional & Financial Risks

Chris Sawyer

Job Titles:
  • Head of Financial Risk Solutions, Asia Pacific / Department
Chris manages the Liberty Financial Risk Solutions business in the Asia Pacific region.

Christian Manning

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Head of Australia Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks

Christina Wan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, Reinsurance, Asia Pacific

Christopher Brassil

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks

Christy Shek

Job Titles:
  • Head of Casualty and Professional & Financial Risks - Hong Kong / Department / Professional & Financial Risks

Cindy Tang

Job Titles:
  • Head of IT & PMO - Asia Pacific

Claudia Virgona

Department Professional & Financial Risks Main role Claudia focuses on underwriting Professional Indemnity, including Design & Construct Contractors, Construction Consultants and miscellaneous PI. Personal profile Claudia re- joined Liberty in 2021 with prior experience working as a Senior Claims Consultant, managing professional and financial risk matters. Claudia has experience in legal practice, insurance claims management and operations. Claudia holds a Bachelor of Arts/Laws (Honours) degree, a Masters of Business (Human Resources) and a Graduate Diploma of Risk Management and Corporate Governance. She is an admitted solicitor in NSW and holds a current practising certificate.

Cloe Gouache

Department Professional & Financial Risks Main Role Cloe focuses on underwriting Professional Indemnity (including D&C, construction consultants, civil liability) and Information Technology Liability insurance. Personal Profile Cloe joined Liberty in 2017 with more than 5 years' insurance industry experience. Cloe holds a Bachelor of Insurance & Finance from France.

Connor Burdon-Bear

Job Titles:
  • in 2023 As a Claim Consultant
  • Senior Claims Specialist, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks Claims
Connor is a Senior Claims Specialist in Professional and Financial Risks, including Professional Indemnity, Project Specific PI, Directors and Officers, Management Liability, Statutory Liability and Employment Liability claims. Connor joined Liberty in 2023 as a claim consultant and has six years of experience as a claims specialist and team leader. In addition to this, she has also worked with the broader casualty insurance space as a general liability team leader.

Craigh Ansell

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Multinational Program - Asia Pacific

Cristin Li

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, War & Terrorism

Daniel Greenwood

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Energy, Property & Construction / Department
Daniel underwrites Material Damage and Business Interruption (Delay in Start-Up / Advanced Loss of Profit) insurance for construction risks. This includes CAR, Civil, EAR risks and annual policies. Daniel can underwrite risks across Australia and New Zealand.

Daniel Hingston

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Australia Underwriting Manager, Casualty & VIC Casualty Manager / Department
As the head of Casualty for Victoria, Daniel manages all the Casualty business for Victoria and Tasmania being written out of the Melbourne office.

Daphne Cheah

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Casualty / Department
As part of the Singapore Casualty team, Daphne focuses her underwriting capabilities within the Singapore and Thailand markets.

David Collins

Job Titles:
  • Principal Risk Engineer, Casualty / Department
David joined Liberty in 2009 and works with Liberty staff in Australia and Asia, providing technical support to Casualty underwriters and claims staff. David's main focus is on General and Products Liability. He conducts site visits and desk reviews for clients across a range of industries including construction, manufacturing, retail, chemical, transport and infrastructure.

David Duxson

Job Titles:
  • Vice President & Head of Property, Asia Pacific / Department
As Head of Property for Liberty Asia Pacific, David manages the underwriting and marketing of Liberty's corporate and commercial Property portfolios. David is based in Melbourne.

David Gallagher

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Head of Cyber & IT Liability, Professional & Financial Risks, Asia Pacific / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
David manages the IT Liability and Cyber portfolios. David has a passion for understanding and keeping abreast of the changes in technology. In the rapidly changing technological landscape with evolving threats and losses, as well as the tightening legal and regulatory environment, the IT Liability and Cyber portfolios provide David and his colleagues with an exciting opportunity for specialisation and innovation.

Davy Chiu

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks

Denise Pong

Job Titles:
  • Professional & Financial Risks Claims Manager - North Asia
Denise is based in Hong Kong and handles the Professional & Financial Risks Division's professional indemnity and D&O claims in North Asia, which includes Hong Kong, China, South Korea and Japan.

Dipam Pandit

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President & Head of War & Terrorism - Asia Pacific / Department
  • Assistant Vice President and Head of War and Terrorism for the Asia Pacific
Dipam joined Liberty in 2015 with over 13 years' insurance experience. Prior to Liberty, Dipam worked in London as a broker for two different international broking houses, specialising in the War and Terrorism product. Dipam is the Assistant Vice President and Head of War and Terrorism for the Asia Pacific region.

Donna Niblock

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, Crisis Management & VIC Branch Manager / Department
Donna underwrites Liberty Crisis Management business for Asia Pacific from her base in the Liberty Melbourne office. Her emphasis is on the development of new business and the education of clients and brokers on Product Recall insurance.

Eddie Young

Job Titles:
  • Branch Manager for Liberty Hong Kong
  • Vice President & Chief Executive, Hong Kong / Department
As Branch Manager for Liberty Hong Kong, Eddie provides leadership to the team and supports them to build and manage relationships in the market.

Edith Williamson

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Casualty / Department
Edith started her insurance career in Life Claims in Malawi and moved to Dubai, working in general insurance broker management and product development.

Elyza McConnell

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Property / Department
Elyza works with NSW brokers to underwite commercial property risks.

Emily Brazel

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Portfolio Solutions

Eric Kong

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Power & Construction / Department
Eric is a Senior Underwriter in the Energy, Property & Construction team based in Singapore, responsible for underwriting power and construction direct and reinsurance risks across Asia. Eric works closely with our Risk Engineers to develop bespoke risk transfer solutions for brokers and their clients.

Erliza Erwin

Department Claims Main Role Based in Malaysia, Erliza manages a portfolio of Casualty and Professional Indemnity/D&O claims. Personal Profile Joining Liberty in mid 2020, Erliza worked as a Loss Adjuster for almost 3 years, and was primarily responsible for handling property damage, fidelity guarantee and third party liability claims. Erliza holds a BSc (Honours) degree in Forensic Science.

Eugene Boateng

Job Titles:
  • Senior Claims Specialist, Energy / Department
Eugene manages the Energy, property and construction claims.

Eunice Sim

Job Titles:
  • Head of Finance & Business Management - Asia

Fern Doyle

Job Titles:
  • Claims Specialist, Professional & Financial Risks / Department

Fiona Priestley

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Environmental Impairment Liability / Department
Fiona underwrites Environmental Impairment Liability business across Australia and manages Liberty's Victorian portfolio.

Frank Salvatore

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Casualty / Department

Frankie Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Marketing & Communication / Department / Marketing & Communications
Frankie leads our marketing and communication function across Asia Pacific and is our go-to person for events, sponsorships, advertising and partnerships.

Gabija Simmonds

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Chief Legal Counsel, Asia Pacific / Department
Department Legal Main Role Chief Legal Counsel Asia Pacific Personal Profile Gabija has more than 20 years of legal experience, including over a decade in private practice at leading law firms in Australia. She started her in-house insurance career in 2008 and held a number of senior roles within BT Financial Group, including Head of Legal - Insurance before taking on a General Counsel & Company Secretary role at a leading international insurer. Gabija joined Liberty in 2018 and is responsible for delivering a wide range of legal services to Liberty's operations in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Gabija has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Gavin Goldsbrough

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, Professional & Financial Risks & NSW Branch RMB Manager / Department / Professional & Financial Risks, NSW Branch
Gavin has branch responsibilities for operations, staff management and market effectiveness in respect of the RMB (Domestic brokers) engagement and relationships. Gavin also underwrites a broad range of financial and professional risks within the NSW Professional & Financial Risks portfolio and specialises in Professional Indemnity (PI) products and Information Technology Liability.

Geoffrey Lee

Job Titles:
  • Regional Manager, GTS - Asia Pacific / Department
Geoffrey's prior experience includes more than five year's legal experience at international law firm DLA Piper. He has been involved in a broad range of corporate and commercial advisory work with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions. Geoffrey also worked in London with DLA Piper UK LLP in 2012. Geoffrey holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from Sydney University and is currently completing a Masters of Law at Sydney University. Geoffrey also holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance), University of Sydney.

Georgia Dodd

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks

Graham Hill

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Excess Workers Compensation & Government

Grant Williams

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Casualty / Department
Department Casualty Main role As a member of the Liberty Melbourne Casualty team, Grant underwrites corporate and commercial Casualty business across Victoria and Tasmania. Personal profile Grant began his insurance career in 2003 and joined Liberty in May 2016 with over a decade of experience in Casualty underwriting. Grant is an Associate of ANZIIF.

Greg Wright

Job Titles:
  • Head of Surety Asia Pacific / Department
Department Surety Main Role Head of Surety - Asia Pacific Personal Profile Greg leads Liberty's Surety team in the Asia Pacific region and has over a decade of experience working in, and leading, Surety practices across Australia and New Zealand. Prior to this, Greg started his career in banking, gaining experience across accounting, financial markets, franchising, and institutional and corporate banking, for both Australian and International banks. Greg holds a Bachelor of Business (Banking), Graduate Diploma in Business Administration and Advanced Certificate in Commerce (Accounting).

Hanghei D'Aversa

Hanghei leads the Marine Project Cargo and General Cargo portfolios across Asia. Hehas a strong risk engineering background and is involved in risk assessment across the full suite of our marine risks, including Commercial Hull, Ship Builder's, Marine Liabilities and Exploration & Production. Personal profile Hanghei joined Liberty Singapore at the beginning of 2015 with more than a decade of experience working as a Heavy Lift and Transport engineer in the UK and Asia Pacific. His experience includes the conceptual planning and implementation of transport and heavy crane lifts for major projects globally, HAZCON risk assessment studies, method statements, detailed lifting and transport studies, heavy rigging equipment inspections and the technical review of subcontract tenders, as well as practical, on-site experience. During his time at Liberty, Hanghei has progressed to lead underwriting for the Asia Cargo portfolio. Hanghei holds a HNC/HND in Mechanical Engineering.

Helen Brand

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Head of Strategy, Risk & Planning Casualty & Professional & Financial Risks & Queensland Branch Manager / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
As the Queensland Branch Manager, Helen is responsible for the operations, staff management, market responsiveness and vision of the branch. As Professional & Financial Risks Queensland Manager, Helen oversees all Professional Indemnity, Financial Institutions (PI and Investment Managers Insurance), Cyber, Side A and Directors' & Officers' Liability insurance being placed in Queensland.

Helen Lok

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
Helen is a Senior Underwriter for Liberty's Professional & Financial Risks department, specialising in Directors & Officers Liability and Financial Institutions for North Asia.

Helen Walpole

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks

Hong Kong Casualty

Job Titles:
  • Hong Kong Casualty Manager

Hwan Choi

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks

Imelda Lim

Job Titles:
  • Principal Risk Engineer, Energy, Property & Construction / Department
Imelda is Principal Risk Engineer supporting Singapore's Energy, Property & Construction Division. Before joining Liberty, Imelda worked for FM Global in Malaysia and Singapore providing risk engineering/loss prevention consultancy services for Asian clients across industries including pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, chemicals, electronics and mechanical equipment manufacturing. Imelda is a Chemical Engineer.

Imran Ashari

Job Titles:
  • Senior Risk Engineer, Energy, Property & Construction / Department
As Risk Engineer within Liberty's Energy and Construction Division, Imran works with Liberty staff in Singapore, providing technical support for underwriting and claims for first party lines of businesses across Asia.

Jack Cox

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, D & O Technical Manager, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
Department Professional & Financial Risks Main role Assistant Vice President, D&O Technical Manager, PFR Personal profile Jack commenced his career in 2011 concentrating on Professional & Financial Risks. With multi-national experience being developed whilst working in London, Jack has tailored risk solutions spanning the world's largest to smallest clients. Jack holds a Bachelor of Business in Financial Risk Management from Victoria University.

Jack Houston

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Property / Department
Based in Melbourne, Jack partners with Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian brokers to provide underwriting solutions for corporate and commercial property risks.

Jack Tomkins

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter & MMA Manager, Casualty / Department
Jack joined Liberty in 2013 with a background in project management in the commercial construction industry. In his first role with Liberty, as assistant underwriter, he focused on the demolition and asbestos facility, but since becoming an underwriter in 2016, he has dealt with an open market book of Casualty business. Jack manages the Liberty MMA Casualty portfolio of business nationally.

James Paul

Job Titles:
  • Senior Claims Specialist, Crisis Management & Energy Property Construction / Department
James manages larger Commercial and Corporate Property claims across a wide range of industries, and also claims resulting from Liberty's Product Recall and Contaminated Products Insurance Policies.

James Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President & Technical Claims Manager, Professional & Financial Risks, Asia Pacific / Department / Professional & Financial Risks Claims
Based in Sydney, James has technical and portfolio oversight of all SPC claims throughout Australia and construction PI claims throughout the Asia Pacific region. He also handles a portfolio of claims.

James Tucker

Job Titles:
  • Senior Claims Specialist & Tech Lead / Department
James manages a range of Casualty claims, and his current portfolio includes occupier's liability, property damage, construction matters and claims under our environmental impairment liability policy. James is also the claim's technical lead for Liberty's Utility clients.

Jamie Kennell-Webb

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
Jamie is a Senior Underwriter, specialising in D&O and Financial Institution risks.

Jane Hattwich

Job Titles:
  • Senior Claims Specialist, Professional & Financial Risks
Jane joined Liberty in 2021 with over twenty years' experience handling complex financial lines claims. Prior to joining Liberty, Jane spent ten years working in the Australian branch of a global insurer and, before that, ten years working in the London Market - initially handling claims for a large international broker, then working in the claims department of a large global insurer. Jane holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (Modern Languages, French and German) and is a member of ANZIIF (Senior Associate, CIP). Jane is based in Melbourne.

Janet Oliver

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Casualty / Department
Janet supports the Casualty Manager (Queensland) with their book of open market Casualty business. She also underwrites her own growing book of open market Casualty business.

Jenna Simons

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Casualty / Department
Department Casualty Main Role A Senior Casualty Underwriter, based in Melbourne and services Victoria and Tasmania. Personal Profile Jenna joined Liberty in 2023, with more than 10 years' experience in casualty underwriting within the Australian general insurance market. Jenna's qualifications include a B International Business/Bachelor Commerce, ANZIFF Tier 1.

Jerome Steyn

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, PFR Manager - WA / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
  • Financial Risks Manager for Western Australia
As a senior underwriter and Liberty Professional & Financial Risks Manager for Western Australia, Jerome is responsible for coordinating and managing the Professional & Financial Risks business from the Perth office. He specialises in Professional Indemnity (PI), Construction PI, Financial Institutions PI, Investment Manager's insurance, Information Technology Liability, Cyber insurance and Directors' and Officers' Liability insurance.

Jessica Dugandzic

Job Titles:
  • Claims Specialist, Casualty / Department
Jessica manages a portfolio of Casualty claims, and provides support for Liberty's Casualty Fast Track claims initiative.

Jiin Tsuey Ang

Job Titles:
  • Principal Officer Malaysia / Assistant Vice President - Property, Energy & Construction

Jimmy Sibanda

Job Titles:
  • Senior Claims Specialist, Energy Property & Construction

Joel Proud - VP

Job Titles:
  • National Property Manager
  • Vice President
  • Vice President & National Property Manager / Department
Joining Liberty's Surety team in 2020, Martin has accumulated a wealth of experience working across the insurance and banking sectors in both Sydney and London. Joel is responsible for underwriting and developing Liberty's Corporate & Commercial Property portfolio nationally.

John Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Head of Underwriting, Casualty Asia Pacific / Department
As Vice President, Head of Underwriting, Casualty Asia Pacific, John has overall responsibility for technical underwriting and portfolio management of the primary and excess liability lines across Liberty's Asia Pacific Casualty business. John started his insurance career in 1988 in the United Kingdom with Royal Insurance and has been working in liability business ever since.

John McCabe

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific / Department / Chief Operating Officer, Senior Vice President Asia Pacific
John McCabe is responsible for the strategic direction of Liberty's Asia Pacific offices, overseeing risk management, capital efficiency, structure, new business and mergers and acquisitions.

John Nicholls

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President & Casualty Manager - NSW / Department
John began his insurance career in 1997 as a broker with a local brokerage in Armidale, Northern NSW. Nine years later, John transitioned into underwriting when he moved to Sydney and began writing Crisis Management policies for a large international insurer. In July 2008, John joined the Liberty Casualty team.

John Stabelos

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Risk Engineering, Casualty / Department
John is responsible for risk analysis across Liberty's broad Casualty portfolio. His daily engagement includes working closely with our underwriting and claims professionals to enable them to have a deeper technical understanding of our clients' business needs. By providing these risk engineering insights, our underwriters are empowered to tailor suitable value add risk solutions and coverages, no matter how diverse and complex the risk.

John Vu

Job Titles:
  • Claims Outsourcing Specialist, Accident & Health / Department

Jonathan Lee

Job Titles:
  • Senior Claims Specialist, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks Claims
Jonathan manages a wide range of Professional Indemnity (PI) and Financial Lines claims across a variety of professions and industries.

Jonathan O'Riordan

Job Titles:
  • Claims Recovery Manager, Asia Pacific / Department
Jon manages and is responsible for all Recovery claims for each line of business for the Asia Pacific region.

Joong Young Lee

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, Professional & Financial Risks, Korea / Department / Professional & Financial Risks

Josephine Cheng

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks

Josh Peterson

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Property / Department
Josh is a Property Underwriter, focusing on corporate and commercial properties.

Joyce Cheng

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, Crisis Management, Asia / Department
Joyce is responsible for growing the Liberty Crisis Management portfolio in Asia. Her areas of focus include Product Recall, Product Contamination and Kidnap and Ransom insurance.

Joyce Horiguchi

Job Titles:
  • Principal Risk Engineer, Casualty / Department
Joyce joined Liberty in 2010. She is responsible for liability risk engineering services in Asia and supports the Casualty Underwriting and Claims teams through technical advice and risk improvement recommendations. Her work involves surveys and reviews across products, construction projects and plant and utility operations.

Judith Cosnett

Job Titles:
  • in 2013 As an Assistant Underwriter
  • Underwriter, Workers Compensation / Department

Jun Liang Yap

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Financial Risk Solutions / Department
Jun Liang joined Liberty in January 2021 and has 5 years of experience underwriting credit and political risks in Asia Pacific. He has experience working on a wide variety of transactions including pre-export finance, secured and unsecured corporate lending, trade finance, and sovereign debt. These transactions typically involve negotiating bespoke policy wordings with clients and brokers. Jun Liang also has experience underwriting political risks which encompass political violence, expropriation, currency inconvertibility, and arbitration award default. Jun Liang is a CFA charterholder and graduated magna cum laude from New York University with a degree economics.

Kate Enock

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Financial Risk Solutions, Asia Pacific / Department
Kate works in the Financial Risk Solutions team, underwriting Credit and Political Risk in Asia Pacific.

Keith Bostock

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Crisis Management / Department
Keith underwrites crisis management business for Liberty Australia from his base in the Liberty Melbourne office. His emphasis is on the development of new business and the education of clients and brokers on product recall insurance.

Ken Tung

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Crisis Management / Department
Ken provides underwriting supports for Asia Pacific Underwriters and he works closely with Underwriters to develop new business and provide an insurance solution to clients and brokers on Product Recall, Product Contamination and Kidnap and Ransom insurance.

Kenneth Wan

Job Titles:
  • Casualty Claims Manager, North Asia / Department
Kenneth handles Casualty and Crisis Management claims in North Asia.

Kevin Nhan

Job Titles:
  • in 2021 As a Senior Claims Specialist
  • Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
Kevin joined Liberty in 2021 as a Senior Claims Specialist before transferring to his current role as an Underwriter. He has over 10 years industry experience and previously worked for a large general insurer and a multinational insurance broker.

Kim Swan

Job Titles:
  • Chief Risk Officer, Asia / Department
Department Risk & Governance Main Role Chief Risk Officer - Asia Personal Profile Kim joined Liberty Specialty Markets in May 2020 with responsibility for Risk & Governance across Asia. Kim specializes in Asia Pacific regulatory affairs and compliance for the insurance industry. Kim has 19 years' industry experience, with previous roles based in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore. Kim has a degree in Japanese language and Psychology from the University of Canterbury (NZ).

Kristy Cappellotto

Job Titles:
  • Claims Manager, Professional & Financial Risks - VIC / Department / Professional & Financial Risks Claims
Kristy manages a wide range of Professional & Financial Risks claims, including professional indemnity, financial lines and construction claims across a number of professions.

Lauren Wong

Job Titles:
  • Head of Professional Indemnity Referrals, Asia
  • Member of the Australian
Lauren is an affiliate member of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Finance (ANZIIF) and is a Registered Professional Liability Underwriter with the Professional Liability Underwriting Society.

Lewis Yang

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Marine and Exploration & Production / Department

Li Sa Chan

Job Titles:
  • Claims Manager
  • Claims Manager, Casualty
Department Claims Main Role Li Sa is based in Singapore and handles Third Party Liability claims in Asia. Personal Profile With over a decade of experience in the insurance industry, Li Sa has a strong background in liability claims. Prior to joining Liberty, Li Sa specialised in personal injury claims, litigation management and dispute resolution. Li Sa holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma in General Insurance.

Louise Austin

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional and Financial Risks
Department Professional and Financial Risks Main Role Underwrites Directors' and Officers' risks. Personal Profile Louise began her insurance career in 2018 and specialises in underwriting Professional and Financial Risks for both domestic and multinational clients. She joined Liberty in early 2021, and whilst her primary focus will be Directors' and Officers' insurance, she also has experience across the entire Professional and Financial Risks product suite. Louise holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Louise Tong

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
Louise is a Senior Underwriter for Liberty's Professional & Financial Risks portfolio, focusing on Professional Indemnity in South Asia.

Luis Gonzalez

Job Titles:
  • Senior Risk Engineer, Crisis Management / Department
Luis works side by side with underwriters providing technical support, allowing him to have a thorough understanding of our clients' business and their insurance needs.

Madeleine Elizabeth

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Underwriter, Marine / Department

Madonna Youles-Fitzgerald

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Marine / Department

Mandy Chan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Casualty

Mandy Rees-Peach

Job Titles:
  • Claims Manager, Workers Compensation / Department
As the Melbourne based Claims Manager for Workers' Compensation, Mandy manages the claims portfolio for Excess Workers' Compensation Reinsurance and Seafarers' lines of business.

Marcus Ellard

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Accident & Health / Department

Marcus Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, Casualty and Professional & Financial Risks - Asia Pacific / Department / Professional & Financial Risks

Margaret Dewes

Job Titles:
  • Claims Manager - Marine, Australia

Marie Yang

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks, Asia / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
Marie is a Senior Underwriter for Liberty's Professional & Financial Risks portfolio, focusing on Directors & Officers and Financial Institutions across Asia.

Mark Bannister

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Property / Department
Department Energy, Property & Construction Main Role Based in the Sydney office, Mark underwrites both corporate and commercial Property business across New South Wales. Personal Profile Mark joined Liberty in 2022, having worked in the insurance industry since 2012 across a number of lines both in London and Sydney. Mark provides Property insurance solutions to a wide range of clients in a number of different industry sectors. Mark holds a degree in Management from The University of Plymouth (UK). He is ACII qualified and a ANZIIF Senior Associate.

Mark Wagner

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Casualty & PFR Manager Qld / Department
As Casualty & PFR Manager (Queensland), Mark oversees all Casualty, Professional Indemnity, D&O and Financial Institution business being written from the Brisbane office. He also holds positions on the APAC Casualty Wording Committee and Policy Wording Committee.

Marlene Kanga

Job Titles:
  • Senior Risk Engineer, Energy, Property & Construction

Martin Ripoll

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Surety
As a senior Surety underwriter based in the Sydney office, Martin is responsible for underwriting Surety transactions across the Asia Pacific region.

Matt Gibbs

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Energy, Property & Construction & WA Branch Manager / Department
Matt's role is to oversee the Energy, Property and Construction portfolio in WA. This involves new business development, handling renewals and actively engaging with brokers and clients to meet their insurance needs in this sector. With his additional responsibility as WA Branch Manager, Matt also coordinates all product lines for Liberty in WA to ensure consistency across the business and to assist where possible in broadening our value proposition and customer focussed culture.

Matt Haines

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Accident & Health / Department
Graham commenced working life as a health professional and across ten years worked in public and private health settings. Matt supports our broker network with the underwriting and distribution of Accident and Health products.

Matthew Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President & Asia Leader / Department / Executive
Matthew is responsible for running the Asia operations of Liberty Specialty Markets and leads our team of over 150 + professionals located across Asia.

Matthew Johns

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, Casualty & SA Branch Manager / Department
Matthew has 30 years of underwriting and broking experience - focused mainly on corporate national and international clients - in both Australia and Asia (specifically, Vietnam). He joined Liberty in January 2011. Matthew manages the upstream Exploration & Production Casualty portfolio across the Asia Pacific Region. He is also the South Australia branch manager, in which role he oversees all branch operations, including branch Casualty business. In addition, he is responsible for promoting Liberty Adelaide's cross-lines approach to business.

Matthew Pasquini

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Property / Department
Matthew partners with Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian brokers to provide underwriting solutions for corporate and commercial property risks.

Matthew To

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Casualty / Department

Maurice Leung

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
  • Professional & Financial Risks Manager - China / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
Maurice is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. Maurice manages Liberty's Financial Institution and Director's & Officer's insurance portfolio across North Asia.

Mehdi Hassani

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President and Manager of Australian EPC Risk Engineering / Department
  • Member of the Institution of Engineers Australia
Mehdi holds an Honours degree in Chemical Engineering. He has worked in various risk management roles since 2009 and has been trained as a fire protection engineer and chemical risk surveyor in the United States and Germany respectively. He has worked internationally and provided consultation in the specific areas of fire, machinery breakdown and natural hazard perils to a variety of different sectors, with special focus on the petrochemicals industry. Based in Sydney, Mehdi works across the Asia Pacific region conducting site surveys and assessing risk in oil and gas production; refining; power generation; mining and construction projects. His key priorities are in providing regional direction with technical support to Liberty's underwriters as well as providing risk control consultation to brokers and clients. Mehdi is a member of the Institution of Engineers Australia, and a Chartered Professional Engineer (Australia), including registration under Queensland legislation (RPEQ). Mehdi is also an associate member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers in the specialist field of Process Safety.

Mei Fong

Mei Fong joined Liberty in 2019 with 7 years' experience in the insurance industry having worked as a broker at a local firm. Starting her career at a life insurance company, she later moved to an insurance broking role as she transitioned into General Insurance. Mei Foong holds a Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science.

Mei Foong Yong

Job Titles:
  • PST Specialist, Claims / Department
Mei Foong is based in Malaysia and handles First Party claims in Asia and Australian property claims.

Melinda Hollibone

Job Titles:
  • National Manager, Civil & Annual Construction / Department
Melinda underwrites Material Damage and Business Interruption (delay in start-up/advanced loss of profit) insurance for Contract Works (Erection Risks, Construction Risks and Civil Construction Risks), as well as annual Contractor and Principal cover. She underwrites to a national portfolio from her base in the Liberty Melbourne office.

Melody Tan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Property

Meredith Lieu

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, Australian D & O Commercial Portfolio Manager, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
Meredith manages the national commercial D&O portfolio, with key experience in other product classes including Financial Institutions, Information Technology and Cyber Liability.

Michael Abdallah - President

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director, Asia Pacific
  • President
  • President & Managing Director of Liberty Asia Pacific
  • President & Managing Director, Asia Pacific / Department / Executive
Michael Abdallah is the President & Managing Director of Liberty Asia Pacific, and has global product line oversight for Liberty's Energy, Marine and Construction business.

Michael Lincoln

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Crisis Management & Weather, Asia Pacific / Department
Michael leads the Liberty Asia Pacific Crisis Management and Weather teams from his base in the Liberty Sydney office.

Michael Mahlo

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks
Department Professional & Financial Risks Main Role Senior Underwriter specialising in Financial Institutions (FinTech, Investment Manager's Insurance and Professional Indemnity), Directors & Officers Liability and Information Technology insurance. Personal Profile Michael Joined Liberty in 2008 with more than 20 years' experience in financial lines underwriting. His previous experience in banking, foreign exchange and Credit Union Insurance underpins his work in underwriting within the financial services sector.

Michael McCarthy

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Casualty / Department
Michael is a senior underwriter focusing on international brokers. Michael joined Liberty in 2017 following a number of years working for a large international insurer in the London international Casualty market.

Mish Illarionov

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Casualty / Department

Mitchell Loewensohn

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
Based in the Sydney office, Mitchell specialises in underwriting Professional Indemnity and Information Technology Liability for the NSW/ACT market.

Murray Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, Accident & Health / Department
Murray is a senior underwriter for the Liberty Accident & Health line of business.

Muy Ung

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Commercial & Affinity

Namhun Kim

Job Titles:
  • Client Business Manager, Professional & Financial Risks, Korea

Namik Turabi

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks

Narjiss Oussalah

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
Department Professional & Financial Risks Main Role A Professional & Financial Risks Underwriter, specialising in Directors & Officers risks. Personal Profile Narjiss started her career in 2016 as an actuary based in Paris. Her previous roles involved actuarial and risk financing strategy studies for multinationals and reinsurance captives, as well as actuarial risk management at a French multinational insurance company. Narjiss transitioned to be a Financial Lines underwriter in 2020 and joined Liberty in Sydney in 2022. She holds a Bachelor of Economics and a Master of Science in Finance, specialising in Insurance and Risk Management.

Natalie Birman

Job Titles:
  • Claims Specialist, Casualty / Department
Based in Melbourne, Natalie manages a variety of Casualty claims, her portfolio largely consisting of personal injury and property damage claims.

Natalie Manton

Job Titles:
  • Portfolio Manager, Portfolio Solutions / Department
Natalie leads the Affinity team out of the Liberty Brisbane office, this includes underwriting casualty business via our programmes, facilities and commercial product offerings nationally.

Natasha Higgins

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Accident & Health / Department

Natasha Youl

Job Titles:
  • Senior Claims Specialist & Tech Lead / Department
Natasha manages a variety of Casualty claims out of the Melbourne office.

Nathan McLellan

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, First Party Claims, Asia Pacific / Department
Nathan leads the First Party Claims team for Asia Pacific, encompassing Liberty's Marine, Energy, Property, Construction and Terrorism products. He is responsible for the delivery of a responsive, technically sound and commercially pragmatic Claims service across these product lines.

Nelfi Amiera Mizan

Job Titles:
  • Specialist
Department Claims Main Role Nelfi is based in Malaysia and provides support to the First Party claims team in Asia Pacific. Personal Profile Nelfi joined Liberty in 2022 with legal and insurance industry experience, managing claims. Nelfi focuses on First Party Energy, Property, Construction and Marine claims. Nelfi holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) (Honours) degree.

Nerida Davies

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional and Financial Risks
Nerida is based in Sydney and focuses on underwriting Professional Indemnity, including Design & Construct Contractors, Construction Consultants and miscellaneous PI.

Neville Zelinka

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President & Casualty Manager, WA / Department

Nicole McHardy

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter
  • Underwriter / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
Nicole is based in the Brisbane office specialising in underwriting Professional Indemnity and Information Technology Liability for the Queensland market.

Odile Cameron

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
Department Professional & Financial Risks Main Role Underwriter in Financial Institutions (FinTech, Investment Manager's Insurance and Professional Indemnity) and Directors & Officers Liability insurance. Personal Profile Odile joined Liberty in 2022 with previous operational experience in the professional and financial risks market. Odile holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Media.

Oliver Greally

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Casualty / Department
Department Casualty Main Role Based in the Melbourne office, Oliver underwrites corporate and commercial Casualty business across Victoria and Tasmania. Personal Profile Oliver joined Liberty in 2022. He began his insurance career underwriting both traditional casualty and innovative sharing economy risks for a Lloyd's Syndicate in London. Since moving to Australia in 2019, he has worked as a casualty underwriter. Oliver holds a Master's degree in Mathematics from Durham University in the UK.

Paul Milliken

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Casualty / Department
Department Casualty Main Role Underwriting of corporate and commercial Casualty business in Victoria. Also responsible for the development and management of the Excess and Umbrella Liability portfolio for Australia. Personal Profile Paul joined Liberty in March 2008 and prior to that he held senior Casualty underwriting roles with SRS Underwriting Agency, AIG and Zurich. He is a Fellow of ANZIIF.

Paul Scales

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Head of Australia Casualty & NSW Branch Manager / Department / Executive
Department Executive Main role Vice President, Head of Australia Casualty & NSW Branch Manager Personal profile Paul has more than 25 years' experience in both claims and underwriting, during which time he has dealt with both international and domestic brokers. Although his focus has been mainly the General Liability product lines, Paul also has experience in construction, manufacturing and Sports Liability insurance. Paul joined Liberty in 2001 and spent the first 10 years in the Sydney office before moving to Melbourne in 2010. He relocated to Sydney in 2017. He holds a Diploma in Financial Services and is a Senior Associate of ANZIIF.

Paul Skene

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Marine / Department
As a senior underwriter with Liberty Marine and based in Melbourne, Paul's main responsibility is managing and developing Liberty's Marine portfolio for Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. While his focus is on Cargo, Carrier's and Marine Liability insurance, he is also interested in promoting cross-lines protection for clients.

Penny Chua

Job Titles:
  • Claims Manager for the Marine
  • Claims Manager, Marine / Department
Penny is Claims Manager for the Marine group, specializing in Cargo, Project Cargo, Carriers, Commercial Hull and Marine Liabilities claims. Penny joined Liberty Specialty Markets in early 2019 having worked in Marine claims since 2010, predominantly with Marine Cargo claims. Prior to joining the insurance industry Penny was a cargo surveyor of 5 years' standing.

Peter O'Leary

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Relationship Management & Marketing, Asia Pacific / Department
Peter is responsible for leadership and coordination of all cross-lines initiatives; refinement of the Liberty Value Propositions and staff training in their delivery; marketing strategies; and broker relationships, with particular emphasis on preferred broker/cluster group arrangements. Peter continues to be involved in the larger accounts and key relationships in the Brisbane Casualty market.

Philippe Dancak

Job Titles:
  • Senior Claims Specialist for Retail
  • Senior Claims Specialist, Retail - Australia / Department
Philippe is a Senior Claims Specialist for Retail and has a specific focus on collaboratively overseeing a segment of Liberty's outsourced property claims with our partners, ensuring a consistent and fair approach to the management and decision-making of their claims. Philippe joined Liberty in August 2022, with more than 35 years of claims handling and insurance management experience across a variety of insurers, underwriting agencies, brokers and loss adjusters.

Phillip Nah

Job Titles:
  • Senior Risk Engineer, Energy, Property & Construction / Department
Based in Melbourne, Phillip provides guidance to Liberty's Energy, Property and Construction underwriters on technical aspects of risk selection in the Australasian region, as well as providing risk control expertise to brokers and clients. Working closely with Liberty's global team of risk engineers and claims professionals, Phillip specialises in Highly Protected Risk and high-challenge risk engineering.

Pierre Dagnee

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Australia D & O Mining & Resources Portfolio Manager / Department / Professional and Financial Risks

Queenie Pang

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks

Rebecca Counter

Job Titles:
  • Director of Operations, Asia Pacific / Department
Department Operations, Strategy and Change Main Role Director of Operations, Asia Pacific Personal Profile Rebecca joined Liberty in 2017, with more than 15 years of experience in Financial Services, predominantly working across Operations, Project and Change Management. Prior to joining Liberty, she worked for a number of banking institutions across Australia, Spain and the Netherlands. Rebecca has a bachelor degree in Commerce and Arts and Masters in International Business and Law.

Regi Hansen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Marine / Department

Rhys McKillop

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Casualty

Rian Wickens

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
Rian is based in the Liberty Sydney office and he specialises in Information Technology Liability and Cyber insurance. Rian joined Liberty in 2015 with 7 years' prior experience underwriting Information Technology Liability and Professional Indemnity insurance, gained in the Sydney and Melbourne offices of a global insurer.

Richard Jessup

Job Titles:
  • Complex Claims Manager, Casualty Australia / Department
Richard is the Complex Claims Manager for Casualty Australia and is based in Sydney.

Richard Slawek

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Casualty / Department
As a senior Casualty underwriter, Richard's main focus is on expanding the corporate, commercial and Construction (liability) business written out of the Brisbane office.

Richard Todd

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Portfolio Solutions / Department
Richard coordinates and manages the Liberty Accident & Health offering, as well as looking after our Asurion Mobile products, from his base in Melbourne.

Robert Cairoli

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Marine, Asia Pacific / Department
Rob is responsible for portfolio management and new business development (Asia Pacific), the analysis and pricing of risk in general cargo, project cargo, marine and general liability, and commercial hull and ship builder's sectors.

Robert Mercer

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President & Head of Claims, Asia Pacific / Department
Department Claims Main Role As the Head of Claims, Rob leads a team of over 40 people across Asia Pacific. Personal Profile Rob has been involved in the insurance industry for over 20 years in Australia and the UK. He has also acted as an solicitor for both insurers and insureds in Australia. Having joined Liberty in 2015, Rob was appointed Senior Vice President - Head of Claims Asia Pacific in August 2021.

Robyn Hassell

Job Titles:
  • Claims Manager, Accident & Health / Department
Robyn is Accident & Health Claim Manager for Australia and oversees our outsourced claims service provider and emergency assistance throughout the claims process to ensure a seamless experience for our policyholders and brokers, while working closely alongside our underwriters. Robyn joined Liberty in February 2019 and brought with her over 30 years of experience in the travel and accident and health claims industry, including working with third-party claim administrators in senior roles.

Rocio Gil Perez

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Property

Ryan Guha

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Underwriter - Marine

Samantha Thorndike

Job Titles:
  • Senior Claims Specialist & Tech Lead / Department
Samantha is a Senior Claims Specialist based in the Sydney office. She manages Casualty claims across Australia for a broad range of insureds, including in the construction, government, rail, religious organization and sports sectors.

Samantha Wong

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Marine / Department
Samantha is responsible for developing and maintaining the marine portfolio for NSW, the ACT and WA.

Sandy Chan

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Casualty / Department
As a member of the Liberty Hong Kong Casualty team, Sandy works closely with local brokers to underwrite casualty business in North Asia.

Sara Culhane

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks

Sara Sampaio Soares

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President and National Manager, Energy and Power / Department
Sara began her insurance career in 2009 at a Lloyd's of London syndicate. After completing their Underwriting Graduate Scheme, she progressed to an underwriting role within the energy team. Sara immigrated to Australia and joined Liberty in April 2015.

Sarah Brown

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
As a Professional & Financial Risks underwriter based in the Liberty Perth office, Sarah is responsible for underwriting financial lines business for Western Australia. Her focus in on Professional Indemnity insurance, Investment Manager's insurance, Financial Institutions insurance, and IT and Cyber Liability insurance.

Sarah Bryce

Job Titles:
  • Senior Claims Specialist, Professional & Financial Risks

Sarah Dickson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
Sarah is based in the Sydney office where she focuses on underwriting Professional Indemnity (including Construction Consultants, Design & Construct Contractors and miscellaneous PI) and Information Technology Liability for the NSW/ACT market. Sarah joined Liberty in February 2020 and has previous experience working for both a global insurer and Lloyd's coverholder across multiple General Insurance products.

Scott West

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, War & Terrorism / Department

Shelley Devane

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, Crisis Management / Department
Shelley underwrites Liberty Crisis Management business based in the Sydney office. Her focus is on Product Recall Insurances and Kidnap Ransom & Extortion.

Sherry Tsui

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, War & Terrorism / Department

Shi Min Tan

Department Professional & Financial Risks Main Role Shi Min is the FI & D&O Portfolio Manager, Professional & Financial Risks Asia Personal Profile Prior to joining Liberty in 2014, Shi Min gained experience working within the Financial Lines team of a large international insurer, and has earned her Associateship of the Chartered Insurance Institute (ACII).

Shurekha Fernandez

Job Titles:
  • Specialist

Simon Jenvey

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, FI Portfolio Manager / Department / Professional & Financial Risks

Snowy Chan

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Marine

Stephanie Roth

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Casualty / Department

Steve Bates

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, Civil Construction, Global / Department
Steve focuses on Civil Project risk assessment and surveys in support of underwriters across Asia and Australia. He is also involved in supporting the global Civil product line team in London.

Steve Priestman

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Business Intelligence & Analytics / Department
Steve leads the Business Intelligence and Analytics across Asia Pacific and is our go to person for all data and reporting requests. He is also involved in a number of global data-related projects.

Steven Faulkes

Job Titles:
  • Chief Actuary, Asia Pacific / Department
Department Actuarial Main Role Chief Actuary - Asia Pacific. Personal Profile Steve has over 20 years of actuarial experience in general insurance, pricing, portfolio management, reserving, capital management, regulatory reporting, and leading teams. Steve holds a Master of Economics (major in Actuarial Studies) and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.

Suff Saleem

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Surety / Department
Suff provides detailed insights into the risk of new and existing business with a key focus on credit.

Sui Loke

Job Titles:
  • Australian Casualty Claims Manager / Department
Sui joined in February 2022. Based in Sydney, she manages the casualty claims team across Australia working collaboratively with underwriting, claims, risk engineers and external stakeholders to deliver tailored solutions for Liberty's clients.

Thuy Vu

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President
  • Assistant Vice President & Claims Manager, Retail & Outsourcing, Asia Pacific / Department
Thuy joined Liberty in September 2016 working on claims management and outsourcing across the accident and health portfolios. With over 15 years of valuable insurance experience including general insurance products in both domestic and international insurance, she specialises in claims outsourcing, retail claims, and claims operations. Thuy is Assistant Vice President & Claims Manager, Asia Pacific and leads the Retail and Outsourcing Claims team which is responsible for the oversight and management of our retail claims and outsourcing arrangements across multiple product lines.

Tian Gu

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Surety / Department
Tian is a Senior Underwriter focusing on North Asia markets.

Tim Bugg

Job Titles:
  • Engineer
  • Assistant Vice President, Risk Engineering, Professional & Financial Risks / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
Tim supports Liberty's underwriters, brokers and clients to understand the key technical, delivery and Professional Indemnity risks associated with engineering and construction projects. Tim is an experienced engineer and project and design manager who has worked across a diverse array of industries, including agriculture, mining, water, oil and gas, desalination, power generation, manufacturing and construction. He has spent more than 20 years in the engineering and construction sector alone. Tim holds a Masters in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical). He is a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) with Engineers Australia and a Registered Professional Engineer in Queensland (RPEQ).

Todd Nakae

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Manager - Japan / Department / Business Development Manager - Japan
Todd manages the Japan portfolio across Liberty's full range of products.

Todd Woodard

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Head of Underwriting, Professional & Financial Risks, Asia Pacific / Department / Professional & Financial Risks
Todd is responsible for managing the Commercial PI portfolio within Australia. As a Senior Underwriter, Todd's focus is looking after significant, unusual or distressed risks.

Tom McCardell

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, EAR & Renewable Energy Construction / Department
Tom underwrites Material Damage and Advanced Loss of Profits cover for construction risks across Australia and New Zealand. These risks include EAR, CAR, Civils and annual covers. Tom has considerable underwriting experience with both Liberty and the insurance market in general. Tom spent 6 years at Liberty from 2008 - 2014 and was National Construction Manager before leaving for a 5 year tree change in Orange. In 2019, Tom rejoined Liberty with a focus on construction and renewable energy. In his time at Liberty, Tom has written covers for a wide range of projects including LNG trains, sports stadiums, roads, tunnels, mines, gas pipelines, power stations, light rail and hospitals.

Tom McEvans

Department Energy, Property & Construction Main Role Senior Underwriter, Property Personal Profile Tom joined Liberty in 2019 with a background in property underwriting and a degree in Business Administration. Tom uses his experience across a broad range of industries to achieve positive outcomes for clients across the Eastern Seaboard of Australia.

Tracey Falconer-Flint

Job Titles:
  • Head of Human Resources - Asia Pacific / Department / Human Resources Asia Pacific
  • Senior Human Resources Leader
Tracey is a senior human resources leader with over 20 years' experience. Tracey has experience across a broad base of industries including pharmaceutical, mining and transport & logistics.

Vanessa Maher

Job Titles:
  • SVP, Chief Risk Officer Australia & Head of Digital Strategy, Asia Pacific / Department
Vanessa was appointed Senior Vice President- Chief Risk Officer Australia and Head of Digital Strategy- Asia Pacific

Vanessa Sim

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Energy, Property & Construction / Department

Weng Fatt Tan

Job Titles:
  • Underwriter, Casualty / Department
Weng Fatt joined Liberty in 2016 in the Casualty team as an Underwriting Assistant. Prior to joining Liberty, Went Fatt worked for a large insurer as well as for a local insurer in Malaysia. Weng Fatt holds a Bachelor of Commerce, Diploma from the Malaysian Insurance Institute and is an Associate (CIP) in ANZIIF.

William Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Head of Asia Pacific, Liberty GTS / Department

Yannick Norman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Underwriter, Surety / Department
As an Assistant Underwriter based in the Brisbane office, Yannick is responsible for portfolio management, credit risk analysis and product development.

Yeong Sheng Chow

Job Titles:
  • Vice President & Head of Energy, Property & Construction, Asia / Department
Yeong Sheng has done extensive risk management work in Asia, including site surveys, in-house risk assessment and risk engineering/loss prevention consultancy, across industries ranging from oil, gas and petrochemicals to manufacturing, logistics, and IT. A graduate chemical engineer, he has 10 years experience in risk engineering for the insurance industry. Yeong Sheng's non-insurance experience includes 7 years in the petrochemical industry in Singapore working on process engineering, operations, Greenfield project turnover and start-up. Yeong Sheng joined Liberty in 2003 and heads up the Risk Engineering Division responsible for all risk management activities in Asia, supporting underwriting and claims as part of the Energy, Property & Construction Division.

Yvonne Yap

Job Titles:
  • Senior PST Specialist, Claims / Department
Yvonne is based in the Malaysia office and provides claim support for the First Party claims team in Asia Pacific.

Zhen Jie Wong

Job Titles:
  • Senior Underwriter, Marine / Department
Zhen Jie began his insurance career in 2014 with a global insurer and joined Liberty in 2021. He has experience underwriting a wide variety of General Cargo risks and Project Cargo risks (including DSU coverage) across Asia, as well as the underwriting and servicing of global program business. Zhen Jie holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences with Honours in Economics from the National University of Singapore. Based in the Singapore office, Zhen Jie is responsible for underwriting General Cargo and Project Cargo risks across Asia.