The insurance industry’s finest are now revealed! On Friday night, hundreds of industry professionals gathered for the Insurance Business Australia Awards 2024.
At The Fullerton Hotel in Sydney’s Martin Place, brokers, insurers, underwriters and other industry players enjoyed the glamour and fun of the seventh annual staging of this event.
The awards recognise and celebrate the hard work of the industry’s best across 21 categories.
This year included new awards: Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Philanthropy & Community Service – CSR; Woman of Distinction; and, CEO of the Year.
There was also a photo booth – sponsored by Crawford – to make sure everyone had a chance to record their night of glamour.
The celebration included a cocktail reception, dinner banquet, awards presentation ceremony and live entertainment throughout the evening.
Meanwhile, Atomic, from Party Band, provided the evening’s music – and even tempted some to sing!
As always, the event belonged to the excellence awardees – all of them are the stand-outs in their respective categories. These insurance professionals have demonstrated what it takes to flourish in today’s challenging global insurance and business environments.
But the judges could only select one winner from each category. This winners’ list will also be published on the Insurance Business Awards website with judges’ comments.
Here is a full list of the night’s victors:
Excellence awardees:
Imperium Insurance and Financial Solutions
Insurance HQ
Lockmor Insurance Brokers
National Insurance Brokers
VIM Cover
Winner:
Insurance Lab
Excellence awardees:
allinsure
Bell Partners Insurance
Clear Insurance
Elliott Insurance the Green Broker
Eternity Insurance and Financial Services
Grace Insurance
Winner:
Trade Risk
Sponsored by ShieldCover
Excellence awardees:
Aviso WA Insurance Brokers
BAC Insurance Brokers
National Credit Insurance (Brokers)
Shielded Insurance
Winner:
McLardy McShane Insurance Brokers
Excellence awardees:
Hayden Clarke, PSC amgi
Lara Morgan, allinsure
Skie Mitchell, Tasmanian Insurance Brokers
Tim Hardy, MGA Insurance Group Canberra
Winner:
Gareth Downie, PSC Insurance Brokers
Excellence awardees:
Frans du Plessis, Grace Insurance
Peter Chamberlain, allinsure
Scott O'Neill, CP Insurance Services
Spencer Hon, Eternity Insurance & Financial Services
Winner:
Sumit Sopori, Imperium Insurance and Financial Solutions
Sponsored by QBE Q nect
Excellence awardees:
McLardy McShane Partners
Oracle Group Australia
Winner:
Insurance Advisernet
Sponsored by QBE Q nect
Excellence awardees:
Deon Locke, Lockmor Insurance Brokers
Matthew Bates, Bell Partners Insurance
Regan Pugh, Elliott Insurance the Green Broker
Shane Brady, Stone Lane Broking & Risk Advisory
Tanushree Arora-Sopori, Imperium Insurance and Financial Solutions
Winner:
Matt Whitley, PSC
Sponsored by Australia Underwriting
UNDERWRITING AGENCY OF THE YEAR
Winner:
Blue Zebra Insurance
Excellence awardees:
Allianz Australia
Berkley Insurance Australia
Sportscover
Woodina Underwriting Agency
Winners:
CHU Underwriting Agencies
Emergence Insurance
Sponsored by AAMC
Excellence awardees:
Allianz Australia
BizCover
Crawford & Company (Australia)
Winner:
Aon
Excellence awardees:
Ansvar Insurance
BizCover
Stella Insurance
Winner:
allinsure
Excellence awardees:
Aimee Henderson, Grace Insurance
Shelagh Bock, GT Insurance
Tanushree Arora-Sopori, Imperium Insurance and Financial Solutions
Winner:
Claire Burke, CHU Underwriting Agencies
Excellence awardees:
Jason Sysouphat, UAA Group
Stephen Carey, Delta Insurance Australia
Winner:
Pamela Beilby, CGU Insurance
Excellence awardees:
Allianz Australia
Berkley Insurance Australia
Winner:
Vero
Excellence awardees:
Glen Riddell, Berkley Re Asia Pacific
Michael Wood, Woodina Underwriting Agency
Peter Chamberlain, allinsure
Tony Wheatley, Berkley Insurance Australia
Winner:
Tony Dodd, GT Insurance
Excellence awardees:
AIA Australia
allinsure
Bell Partners Insurance
Berkley Insurance Australia
Elliott Insurance the Green Broker
Trade Risk
Winner:
BizCover
Excellence awardees:
Berkley Insurance Australia
Emergence Insurance
Winner:
Allianz Australia
Excellence awardees:
ARC Projects
Credit Clear
Envista Forensics
Motorweb
Sedgwick Australia
Winner:
Xceedance
Excellence awardees:
Advisr
Curium
Duck Creek Technologies
JAVLN
Kanopi
Sync Technologies
Winner:
BizCover for Brokers
Excellence awardees:
Insurance Lab
Trade Risk
Winner:
McLardy McShane Insurance Brokers
This is the highest honour at the Insurance Business Australia Awards.
This award recognises and celebrates a leading figure who has contributed much to the advancement of the insurance industry in Australia.
This award acknowledges someone with an established history and reputation of distinguished service to the insurance profession and who has exhibited leadership and provided inspiration to others in the sector and own workplace, whilst putting the interests of the industry at the top of their priorities throughout their career.
Winner:
Keith Roderick, Roderick Insurance Brokers
This year’s awards were sponsored by AAMC, QBE Q nect, Australia Underwriting and ShieldCover. The champagne was supported by Financial Education and the photobooth by Crawford.
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