Chubb

Expanding Consumer partnerships across APAC 
Focus on digital embedded affinity partnerships 
Driving BD best practice

Regional Head of Consumer Partnerships, APAC

Coherent

Expanding Coherent across Asia, Australasia, USA and Europe

Chief Revenue Officer

Providing Insurance companies with agile and innovative digital solutions
Responsible for building SEA business P and L 
Manage 2 key Coherent Products from a strategic and business development perspective

Managing Director South East Asia

Support 4 countries with the development and execution of their strategic plans 
Developed a commercially driven Spotify/ SAFe scaled agile blueprint for NN International- implementing in Hungary
Running digital disruption workshops leveraging Fintech aggregators
Built a scalable RPA Claims automation tool with Czech business 
Developing digital eco system roadmaps to bring short term agility to legacy systems

Head of Strategic Execution

Ran team of 400 staff across Call centre, Insurance and Branch Operations
Launched 'Spark by Philam Group' an assisted self service fully digitally enabled service centre across 30 sites
Implemented UX based customer portal with industry leading functionality, UI and 50k year one users
Transformed front line service strategy from high volume/low value to service/revenue generation (generating USD 5M in new business) 
Implemented best practice operations management process reducing operating costs by over 20% over 2 years. Whilst business volumes increased.
(First 5 months was secondment before permanent appointment)

Chief Operating Officer

Run a regional team that provides Operations consulting and execution support to 17 countries across the region 
Build operations digital and traditional channel target operating models
Perform and execute operations wide lean process reviews
Implement regional customer centric KPIs and benchmarking 
Implement regional management operating systems to increase operations maturity towards international best practice 
Move regional branch network towards self service and digital channels
Regional Operations strategy consulting and implementation 
In country Operations strategy review 
Development of strategic roadmaps
Lean process improvement workshops across the Thailand individual business 
PMO governance consulting and implementation
Advising on the integration of process and technology based change

Head of Operations Transformation

Run INGLJ strategic project portfolio governance
Chair the monthly project management committee
Secured agreement on a project success target for all Management committee members
Ran the Simplify! organisational transformation program
Manage the central pool of project management resources
Continued to run the Process Automation team delivering 3-1 benefits to costsRan organisational process and strategic opportunity review program sponsored by CEO
Delivered 12 quick wins to build momentum and commenced 4 significant strategic change initiatives 
Established a 'hub and spoke' decentralised transformational function
Used divisional champion model to leverage off local experience and maximise program traction
Integrated process and technology based solutions for efficient and effective change
Delivered 5 Operations/Sales based system automations adding significant business benefits

Head of Corporate Program Management Division 

Led a team of 60 specialist resources across the Australian and Bangalore based campuses and supported the Australian Operations leadership team and their 4000 strong operational teams with the following functions:
Capacity Planning, Business Information, Forecasting, Re-engineering and Short Term Automation.
Key Accomplishments:
Re-engineering team has delivered $15M in annualised benefits to date from a $1M cost base
Introduced a new productivity & capacity management framework that helped increase productive output by 13% with flat costs across a 4000 strong team
Facilitated the exchange of 300 FTE in resources, as a result of daily load and variance meetings 
Changed the re-engineering approach from DMAIC to Lean, with a focus on quick/ practical delivery
Managing team of 50 specialist resources spread across 2 international hubs.
Driving the Australian operations productivity agenda through the deployment of an intraday capacity monitoring tool, daily huddles and an exception reporting and ranking tool.
Delivered a Mortgages Credit Assessment program that saved 25 FTE
Enabled deals to be assessed within 2 hrs (from previous best of 24 hrs)
Delivered 3 phase program within 12 months and for less than AUD$700K 
Highly positive feedback received from Broker and Mobile Lending channels “the speed of the assessments puts ANZ in a highly competitive position in this difficult market”

Senior Manager Re-engineering, Productivity & Business Information

Highlights during this period:
3 years running the  Pacific Operations Centralisation program in Suva Fiji
Growing Pacific Ops FTE by 150% in 18 months and a 20% cost efficiency 
One of first 6 in ANZ to achieve Black Belt Accreditation and delivered $2M+ operation savings
Built Lean six sigma program within the ANZ/ ING Australia joint venture, training Black belts and delivering 12 strategically linked initiatives
Ran eplan compliance online learning portal for 35,000 employees. Updating training plans and system functionality.

Senior Operations Transformation Roles

An experienced financial services executive with a talent for finding and delivering scalable opportunities. Whether in insurance operations, building a global insurtech company or in finding new strategic partnerships. 

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