Headquarters:
425 Smith Street, Fitzroy, VIC 3065
Year founded:
2018
Number of employees:
5
Phone:
03 9976 4240
Email:
nathan@ascotinsurancegroup.com.au
Website:
ascotinsurancegroup.com.au
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/ascot-insurance-group-au
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ASCOT INSURANCE GROUP
Nathan Ray
Managing Director
Tanushree Arora-Sopori (Tas)
Account Director
David Summers
Managing Director
Ausure Horizon Insurance
Leadership
Nathan Ray has over 20 years of experience in the insurance industry, and a relentless passion for delivering quality advice with a close and friendly relationship. His broking skill has been developed by delivering solutions on complex and hard-to-place policies for medium to large companies in hazardous and high-risk industry sectors, such as plastics, print, recycling, waste management, brewery, cardboard, supply chain, chemical, timber and pharmaceutical. As the founder, insurance nerd and strategic leader of Ascot, Nathan takes the company to the next level.
Managing Director
Nathan Ray
Tas Arora-Sopori is a Qualified Practising Insurance Broker with over 15 years of experience in the industry. Her previous roles include senior positions with multinational brokers and large insurers. She is skilled in account management, claims management, people management, business development, sales and customer satisfaction. With prestigious Young Gun awards from NIBA and Insurance Business under her belt, Tas believes in combining the good old human touch with innovation and technology to help her clients obtain their insurance needs.
Account Director
Tanushree Arora-Sopori (Tas)
David Summers, an Elite Broker in 2021, has 20 years of experience in his field and is described as a person who is always running at 9,000 rpm. With an insurance mentality that there should be no problems, only solutions, he goes out of his way to provide what his clients need. David works closely with companies in the construction and transport industries, providing straightforward and pragmatic advice that enables them to keep their businesses safe and profitable.
Managing Director
Ausure Horizon Insurance
David Summers
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GROUP
Wesley Werner
Senior Software Engineer
Tanushree Arora-Sopori (Tas)
Account Director
Nathan Ray
Managing Director
Leadership
Headquarters:
425 Smith Street, Fitzroy, VIC 3065
Year founded:
2018
Number of employees:
5
Phone:
03 9976 4240
Email:
nathan@ascotinsurancegroup.com.au
Website:
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/ascot-insurance-group-au
Nathan Ray has over 20 years of experience in the insurance industry, and a relentless passion for delivering quality advice with a close and friendly relationship. His broking skill has been developed by delivering solutions on complex and hard-to-place policies for medium to large companies in hazardous and high-risk industry sectors, such as plastics, print, recycling, waste management, brewery, cardboard, supply chain, chemical, timber and pharmaceutical. As the founder, insurance nerd and strategic leader of Ascot, Nathan takes the company to the next level.
Managing Director
Nathan Ray
Tas Arora-Sopori is a Qualified Practising Insurance Broker with over 15 years of experience in the industry. Her previous roles include senior positions with multinational brokers and large insurers. She is skilled in account management, claims management, people management, business development, sales and customer satisfaction. With prestigious Young Gun awards from NIBA and Insurance Business under her belt, Tas believes in combining the good old human touch with innovation and technology to help her clients obtain their insurance needs.
Account Director
Tanushree Arora-Sopori (Tas)
Wesley Werner has cross-functional technical skills across a variety of technical languages such as C#, .NET, .NET Core, and SQL. He has a demonstrated history in the insurance space and has been involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle from planning and technical specification to implementation and delivery. He is also skilled in delivering client-centric outcomes.
Senior Software Engineer
Wesley Werner
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For the second year running, Shielded Insurance Brokers has claimed the number-one spot among IB’s Top Brokerages. In 2020, it was record-setting growth that drove the company’s impressive success. This year, says managing director Stuart Brady, the key ingredient behind the win is the Shielded culture. Brady is proud of the shared vision for constant improvement across all aspects of the business. “We are thrilled to take out the win again, and it’s hats off to the team for their hard work over the past year,” he says.
“Stelvio [restructured] its software development team to sit under four distinct, multi-disciplinary teams, capable of building and modifying any product within the EstImage product suite”
Yannick Giguère,
Stelvio Australia
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ASCOT INSURANCE GROUP
Angela Terreblanche
Technical Business Analyst
Tanushree Arora-Sopori (Tas)
Account Director
Nathan Ray
Managing Director
Leadership
Headquarters:
425 Smith Street, Fitzroy, VIC 3065
Year founded:
2018
Number of employees:
5
Phone:
03 9976 4240
Email:
nathan@ascotinsurancegroup.
com.au
Website:
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/ascot-insurance-group-au
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Nathan Ray has over 20 years of experience in the insurance industry, and a relentless passion for delivering quality advice with a close and friendly relationship. His broking skill has been developed by delivering solutions on complex and hard-to-place policies for medium to large companies in hazardous and high-risk industry sectors, such as plastics, print, recycling, waste management, brewery, cardboard, supply chain, chemical, timber and pharmaceutical. As the founder, insurance nerd and strategic leader of Ascot, Nathan takes the company to the next level.
Managing Director
Nathan Ray
Tas Arora-Sopori is a Qualified Practising Insurance Broker with over 15 years of experience in the industry. Her previous roles include senior positions with multinational brokers and large insurers. She is skilled in account management, claims management, people management, business development, sales and customer satisfaction. With prestigious Young Gun awards from NIBA and Insurance Business under her belt, Tas believes in combining the good old human touch with innovation and technology to help her clients obtain their insurance needs.
Account Director
Tanushree Arora-Sopori (Tas)
Wesley Werner has cross-functional technical skills across a variety of technical languages such as C#, .NET, .NET Core, and SQL. He has a demonstrated history in the insurance space and has been involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle from planning and technical specification to implementation and delivery. He is also skilled in delivering client-centric outcomes.
Senior Software Engineer
Wesley Werner
For the second year running, Shielded Insurance Brokers has claimed the number-one spot among IB’s Top Brokerages. In 2020, it was record-setting growth that drove the company’s impressive success. This year, says managing director Stuart Brady, the key ingredient behind the win is the Shielded culture. Brady is proud of the shared vision for constant improvement across all aspects of the business. “We are thrilled to take out the win again, and it’s hats off to the team for their hard work over the past year,” he says.
Wesley Werner
Senior Software Engineer
Wesley Werner has cross-functional technical skills across a variety of technical languages such as C#, .NET, .NET Core, and SQL. He has a demonstrated history in the insurance space and has been involved in all aspects of the product lifecycle from planning and technical specification to implementation and delivery. He is also skilled in delivering client-centric outcomes.
Senior Software Engineer
Wesley Werner
David Summers
Managing Director
Ausure Horizon Insurance
David Summers, an Elite Broker in 2021, has 20 years of experience in his field and is described as a person who is always running at 9,000 rpm. With an insurance mentality that there should be no problems, only solutions, he goes out of his way to provide what his clients need. David works closely with companies in the construction and transport industries, providing straightforward and pragmatic advice that enables them to keep their businesses safe and profitable.
Managing Director
Ausure Horizon Insurance
David Summers
David Summers
Managing Director
Ausure Horizon Insurance
David Summers, an Elite Broker in 2021, has 20 years of experience in his field and is described as a person who is always running at 9,000 rpm. With an insurance mentality that there should be no problems, only solutions, he goes out of his way to provide what his clients need. David works closely with companies in the construction and transport industries, providing straightforward and pragmatic advice that enables them to keep their businesses safe and profitable.
Managing Director
Ausure Horizon Insurance
David Summers
Angela Terreblanche
Technical Business Analyst
Angela Terreblanche is an experienced business analyst and finance professional (CA) with a demonstrated history of working on system implementations, particularly in the insurance industry. She is skilled in business process mapping, understanding finance and accounting processes, financial reporting, banking integration processes, project management and implementing customer-centric solutions.
Technical Business Analyst
Angela Terreblanche
Angela Terreblanche
Technical Business Analyst
Angela Terreblanche is an experienced business analyst and finance professional (CA) with a demonstrated history of working on system implementations, particularly in the insurance industry. She is skilled in business process mapping, understanding finance and accounting processes, financial reporting, banking integration processes, project management and implementing customer-centric solutions.
Technical Business Analyst
Angela Terreblanche
Wesley Werner
Senior Software Engineer
Angela Terreblanche is an experienced business analyst and finance professional (CA) with a demonstrated history of working on system implementations, particularly in the insurance industry. She is skilled in business process mapping, understanding finance and accounting processes, financial reporting, banking integration processes, project management and implementing customer-centric solutions.
Technical Business Analyst
Angela Terreblanche
Ascot Insurance Group was founded in 2018 after its founder Nathan Ray decided to launch a broking company focused on the specialty of skilled insurance placement solutions for businesses in the hazardous and high-risk industries, including the manufacturing, warehousing, chemical, recycling and supply chain industries.
It has been a challenging start, especially in the past two years with the growth in the number of clients in hazardous and high-risk industries during the COVID-19 pandemic, at a time of diminished capacity for these industries.
“Not being able to attend sites and perform risk engineering surveys to best present the clients to the increasingly difficult insurance market was an enormous headache,” says Ray. “However, Ascot was able to successfully provide excellent outcomes for new and existing clients during the two years of the pandemic by ‘partnering with the client’ to present their business and their desired insurance cover to the insurers locally and globally.
“An example was with a particular plastics manufacturing client [that we requested to join] our insurer presentations and explain their investment in the business and future improvements of their factories. The outcome was a premium saving of more than $400,000 and plans for further savings along with a long-term relationship with the insurer.”
Over the last 20 years of his broking career, Ray has seen far too many times the complacency of businesses in the hazardous and high-risk industries with their insurance programs and the considerable impact a skilled insurance broker can have on pricing and risk mitigation. A passion for serving others and maintaining transparent relationships has served as the basis for the day-to-day service and interactions they have with their clients and insurer partners. Over the last three years, Ascot has gone from strength to strength by utilising their specialist skills coupled with friendly, transparent and close relationships with new and existing clients to deliver industry-leading and long-term results for clients and insurers.
Off the back of successes to date, Ascot is now doubling down on its growth with plans to expand its reach and skilled services into helping other industries which have distressed insurance issues. Expertise, transparency, close relationships and long-term solutions are the cornerstones of Ascot’s future growth.
“Local service and a friendly approach coupled with our global reach and extensive experience in the hazardous and high-risk industries differentiate us in the marketplace,” says Ray. “Often, we come up against the corporate brokers who are just unable to deliver on the servicing and personalised approach in the way we do. Relationships and transparency and loving to serve others, I think, is the key difference.”
As a broker, Ascot Insurance fulfills the role of an intermediary whose core purpose is to serve others and ensure that its service is successful for all involved. In addition to the experience of Ascot and its team, the company also benefits from the strength and steadfast support of the global insurance ecosystem. Ascot is supported by a number of insurance partners internationally to assist with the quotation and placement of complex insurance policies with overseas insurers.
As the leader of Sephora Canada’s strong e-commerce business, Laura Unger focuses her team on driving growth through industry-leading online client experiences.
Laura has worked for Sephora for nearly six years, leading the e-commerce merchandising team for makeup, and has hands-on experience at Sephora inside JC Penney. She is passionate about developing and leading teams and has earned a reputation for driving business results by doing so.
Before joining Sephora, Laura honed her talents at such well-known companies as Google and Gap, as well as e-commerce start-ups Minted and Shop It To Me.
Laura is a graduate of Smith College, and earned an MA from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. She enjoys hiking and being outdoors and loves spending time with her family, especially her four-year-old son. In quiet moments, you might find her reading The New Yorker.
Vice President/General Manager, .CA
Laura Unger
Paul Mayer has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience at the vice president level. He is a graduate of Queen’s University and has an MBA from IESE Business School in Spain. He speaks English, French, and German, and has an understanding of Spanish.
Executive Vice President, Investment Sales
Paul Mayer
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation of the company’s internal customer service department.
Associate Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
Laura Unger
Vice President/
General Manager, .CA
Sarah M Stewart
Associate Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Paul Mayer
Executive
Vice President, Investment Sales
As the leader of Sephora Canada’s strong e-commerce business, Laura Unger focuses her team on driving growth through industry-leading online client experiences.
Laura has worked for Sephora for nearly six years, leading the e-commerce merchandising team for makeup, and has hands-on experience at Sephora inside JC Penney. She is passionate about developing and leading teams and has earned a reputation for driving business results by doing so.
Before joining Sephora, Laura honed her talents at such well-known companies as Google and Gap, as well as e-commerce start-ups Minted and Shop It
To Me.
Laura is a graduate of Smith College, and earned an MA from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. She enjoys hiking and being outdoors and loves spending time with her family, especially her four-year-old son. In quiet moments, you might find her reading The New Yorker.
Vice President/General Manager, .CA
Laura Unger
Paul Mayer has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience at the vice president level. He is a graduate of Queen’s University and has an MBA from IESE Business School in Spain. He speaks English, French, and German, and has an understanding of Spanish.
Executive Vice President, Investment Sales
Paul Mayer
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich
School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at
The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation of the company’s internal customer service department.
Associate Vice President, Leasing and
Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
Laura Unger
Vice President/
General Manager, .CA
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Paul Mayer
Executive
Vice President, Investment Sales
Sarah M Stewart
Associate
Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
As the leader of Sephora Canada’s strong e-commerce business, Laura Unger focuses her team on driving growth through industry-leading online client experiences.
Laura has worked for Sephora for nearly six years, leading the e-commerce merchandising team for makeup, and has hands-on experience at Sephora inside JC Penney. She is passionate about developing and leading teams and has earned a reputation for driving business results by doing so.
Before joining Sephora, Laura honed her talents at such well-known companies as Google and Gap, as well as e-commerce start-ups Minted and Shop It To Me.
Laura is a graduate of Smith College, and earned an MA from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. She enjoys hiking and being outdoors and loves spending time with her family, especially her four-year-old son. In quiet moments, you might find her reading The New Yorker.
Vice President/General Manager, .CA
Laura Unger
Paul Mayer has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience at the vice president level. He is a graduate of Queen’s University and has an MBA from IESE Business School in Spain. He speaks English, French, and German, and has an understanding of Spanish.
Executive Vice President,
Investment Sales
Paul Mayer
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the
Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years
of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation
of the company’s internal customer
service department.
Associate Vice President,
Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
“Stelvio’s approach to EstImage is unique in that it leverages software integration to simplify communication and data exchange between insurers and their suppliers from one centralised location, eliminating the need for multiple products or portals”
Yannick Giguère,
Stelvio Australia
“Stelvio’s approach to EstImage
is unique in that it leverages software integration to simplify communication and data exchange between insurers and their suppliers from one centralised location, eliminating the need for multiple products or portals”
Yannick Giguère,
Stelvio Australia
“Stelvio’s approach to EstImage is unique in that it leverages software integration to simplify communication and data exchange between insurers and their suppliers from one centralised location, eliminating the need for multiple products or portals”
Yannick Giguère,
Stelvio Australia
