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“No matter how many clients I have, I make sure to call each one personally every quarter. It’s a chance to not only update them on their portfolio, but also check on how they’re doing personally”
Kelvin Rampersad,
Carte Wealth Management
Drew Schnehage started her insurance career with a large insurer in South Africa after finishing her year 12. Her first insurance job was in claims, and she worked for two insurers and a broker before joining a third-party administrator.
With 30 years in the insurance industry in South Africa, Drew has a strong focus on building and strengthening client relationships and has built and grown two businesses from the ground up. Knowing that nurturing and building highly effective teams helps one become successful, Drew thrives in innovative and entrepreneurial environments. She leads by example and believes that hard work pays off.
She became a director at the age of 32 and soon after joined an underwriting agency to develop a new niche insurance product for high-net-worth individuals. In 2008, she was offered the opportunity to start an underwriting agency to grow the first ever high-net-worth portfolio, never been done before in South Africa. In 2016, her company won the Underwriting Agency of the Year award. After seven years, she sold her underwriting agency to Hollard Insurance in South Africa and joined their personal lines division to assist with the development of their new personal lines’ product offering.
After two years, Drew was head-hunted to join Innovation Group in South Africa as commercial director. Uprooting herself and her family to join the Australian business where nobody knew her was the challenge she accepted in 2019 – a move that saw her leave the South African unit of insurtech and third-party administrator Innovation Group to lead the Australian operations in her capacity as managing director.
Level 18, 120 Spencer Street, Melbourne, Vic 3000, Australia
0499599829
drew.schnehage@innovation.group
au.linkedin.com/in/drew-schnehage-76a25a2a
innovation-group.au
Drew Schnehage
Managing Director
Innovative Group Australia
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“I strongly believe in working smarter, not harder. I think it’s one of the keys to living a great life, and I want to share that with as many people as possible”
Kelvin Rampersad,
Carte Wealth Management
2001–2007
2008–2014
2012–2016
2017–2018
2018–present
Chief Operating Officer of a third-party administrator in South Africa
Director at age 32
2001–
2007
Chief Executive Officer and business owner at Aquarius Underwriting Managers
Won the Underwriting Manager of the Year Award in South Africa
2008–
2014
Board Member of the South African Underwriting Association
2016 Underwriting Agency Award (South Africa)
2012–
2016
Board Member of the Insurance Institute in South Africa
2017–
2018
Commercial Director at Innovation Group South Africa
Managing Director at Innovation Group Australia
Nominated for Hot List Top 100 in 2022 and 2023
Two-time award winner of the driver safety program for the Global Fleet Awards, one-time silver award nomination for Best Service Provider
2021 and 2022 Australian Fleet Champions Award
2022 Silver Award Best Service Provider, Insurance Business Australia
2022 Road Safety Award for Technology Programmes
2022 and 2023 Top 100 Hot List, Insurance Business Australia
2018–
present
Suncorp Bank’s turnaround times are the lowest they have ever been. The lender becomes Australia’s first certified carbon neutral bank for both its operation and transaction services
Aug 2022
Milestones
Aug 2022
Milestones
Sept 2021
Feb 2022
Apr 2022
Jul 2022
Aug
2022
Suncorp Bank introduces Solar Home Bonus offer for customers who are choosing renewable energy for their homes
Sept 2021
Month-on-month market share growth commences
Feb 2022
Suncorp Bank wins the Canstar award for most outstanding value in investment loans
Apr 2022
Suncorp Bank wins Money Magazine’s Bank of the Year and Business Bank of the Year awards for the fifth year in a row
Jul 2022
Suncorp Bank’s turnaround times are the lowest they have ever been. The lender becomes Australia’s first certified carbon neutral bank for both its operation and transaction services
Aug 2022
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