Headquarters:

Sydney

Year founded:

2023

Number of employees:

Phone:

1300 418 292

Email:

info@tautsec.com.au

Website:

tautsec.com.au

LinkedIn:

au.linkedin.com/company/tautsec

“We prioritise embracing cutting-edge technologies, creative problem solving and continuous improvement to enhance our premium funding solutions and provide exceptional value to our clients”

Brett Bastow, IQumulate Premium FundinG

Warren Zietsman

Chief Executive Officer

Frank Teunnissen

Chief Product Officer

Carmen Lei

Chief Financial Officer

Leadership

Cameron Copeland is president and CEO of SPG Canada, the largest delegated underwriting authority enterprise (DUAE) in the Canadian P&C insurance industry. Under his leadership, SPG Canada has completed several acquisitions, most recently the amalgamation of Totten Insurance Group and Anderson McTague & Associates in January 2025. Its legacy brands also include Cansure, i3 Underwriting, and Beacon. Cameron’s values-driven leadership has earned recognition for excellence in ESG, DEI, and the MGA sector. He holds an MBA from Queen’s University and professional designations including Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), Fellow Chartered Insurance Professional (FCIP), and Canadian Risk Management (CRM).

Chief Executive Officer

Warren Zietsman

Greg Knowles joined Totten Insurance Group as chief underwriting officer and executive vice president in March 2019. He is responsible for UK and domestic insurer relationships and new product development. Knowles has 27 years of insurance industry experience, spanning underwriting roles across P&C, specialty, construction, energy, healthcare, marine, and cross-border risks. A Queen’s University graduate, he has worked in three key Canadian markets: Montreal, Calgary, and Toronto. His expertise includes underwriting and carrier relationship management, giving him a broad understanding of the insurance landscape. Knowles’ experience across multiple markets and lines of business supports his leadership in developing products and strong insurer partnerships.

Chief Product Officer

Frank Teunnissen

Ed Quek has more than 25 years of commercial underwriting and management experience in the insurance industry. After graduating from the University of Southern California with a degree in finance and marketing, he began his insurance career in Toronto with Sovereign General Insurance Company. He later returned to Vancouver and held progressively senior underwriting and management roles at Intact, Aviva, CNA, and Economical Insurance. Quek joined Cansure in 2014 as an underwriting manager, contributing to the growth and development of commercial insurance products. His extensive industry knowledge and underwriting experience enable him to support brokers and drive innovation across SPG Canada’s product portfolio.

Chief Financial Officer

Carmen Lei

Mariette Snyman

Chief Marketing Officer

Denise Russell began her insurance career in 2006 as a personal lines underwriter before moving into business development, an area she is passionate about. She has since developed extensive expertise in marketing and business operations through progressively senior roles with domestic insurers. Russell joined Cansure in 2018 as VP of sales and marketing and later served as director of carrier relations. She is now chief sales and marketing officer at SPG Canada, overseeing marketing, business development, and customer service. Russell has also contributed to the industry through board roles with WICC BC and YIPBC. In 2019, she received the IBABC Rising Star award.

Chief Marketing Officer

Mariette Snyman

Christy Knowles

Chief People and Culture Officer

Christy Knowles joined SPG Canada in 2021 as director of human resources, bringing more than 20 years of progressive human resources experience, including 10 years in the insurance sector. As chief people and culture officer, she focuses on HR operations, developing future leaders, and fostering an engaged, diverse, and inclusive workplace culture. Her leadership has helped strengthen SPG Canada’s position as an employer of choice. Knowles brings extensive experience in people strategy and organizational development, with a particular focus on building strong teams and supporting leadership development. Her work helps create an environment where employees can contribute, grow, and thrive.

Chief People and Culture Officer

Christy Knowles

Stevens & Associates Lawyers is a leading and trusted employment law firm based in Sydney known for delivering high-quality legal expertise in the area of employment law and industrial relations across Australia, alongside a proven track record of effectively and swiftly resolving a variety of workplace law issues. In the past year, the firm’s growth has been notable. It has: • experienced a 213% growth in the number of client matters, increasing from 149 client matters in the 2022 financial year to 390 client matters in the 2023 financial year • improved its online visibility, leading to over 50 online enquiries each month and a conversion rate of client leads of up to 40% • significantly expanded the breadth and type of matters that it advises on day to day, which has increased the firm’s skillsets, diversity and resilience • expanded its community outreach by collaborating with local Sydney venues for client seminars and continuing active participation in a Sydney small/family business group Stevens & Associates Lawyers has adapted to digital trends by implementing an effective strategy with SEO and web design, resulting in a structural shift that has seen increased representation of employees where the firm previously mainly advised employers. The firm’s recognition as a “Fast Firm” attests to its momentum in the employment law space.

“IQumulate is on a technology journey, and we’re just getting started”

Wayne Tower, IQumulate Premium Funding

Chris Marcinkiewicz

Chief Underwriting Officer

Brent Lexier

President, Specialty Claims Canada

Paul Meinschenk

President, Underwriting Operations

Pam Chhabra

Manager – Residential Strata

Simon Breakspear is a trusted and approachable leader who makes time for people, offering support, reassurance and guidance whenever it is needed. His willingness to listen and share his knowledge makes him someone colleagues feel comfortable turning to for advice. Breakspear is passionate about bringing people together, building strong relationships across teams and ensuring colleagues feel involved and supported through change. His calm and all-embracing approach helps create an environment where people feel valued, connected and confident contributing their ideas.

Chief Underwriting Officer

Chris Marcinkiewicz

Jo Blackburn is an inclusive and supportive leader who is passionate about creating opportunities for people to thrive. She brings valuable frontline perspective into the business and ensures colleagues’ experiences and voices help shape how the organisation moves forward. A strong advocate for female leadership, Blackburn actively champions and celebrates women across the business, encouraging confidence, development and progression. Her approachable leadership style helps create a culture where people feel represented and supported to succeed.

President, Specialty Claims Canada

Brent Lexier

Laura Martin puts people at the heart of her leadership, helping to embed a positive, supportive culture within her own team and across the wider business. She invests time in mentoring and developing others, creating safe spaces where colleagues feel able to speak openly, ask for support and be themselves. Martin leads with kindness and emotional intelligence, taking time to understand each individual behind the role. Her supportive and collaborative approach helps people feel valued, builds confidence and encourages colleagues to grow and thrive.

President, Underwriting Operations

Paul Meinschenk

Stephen McMillan first entered the financial services Industry when he joined GE Capital as a finance analyst in 2008, from which he progressed through roles working both onshore and offshore. From there, he moved into Pacific Premium Funding as a financial planning and analysis leader in 2012 and was a key resource in the evolution of the business, first with the successful sale to Macquarie Pacific Funding and then the following progression into IQumulate Premium Funding, where he is now the commercial manager. As commercial manager, McMillan leads a team that is responsible for commercial analysis and business support, identifying and reporting improvement initiatives, and the securitization and treasury functions of the business.

Commercial Manager

Stephen McMillan

One culmination of these efforts has been the real-world, needs-based IQEdge solution. A one-stop online quoting tool designed for both the Australian and New Zealand markets, IQEdge delivers quotes in under 60 seconds. Plus, the solution offers quote comparison and quote versioning capabilities, enabling users to review vital historical and financial data in a single page view. IQEdge can streamline and automate application processing, underwriting document verification and payment collection, cutting the need for manual labour and minimising processing errors. A digital “self-service” platform, IQEdge, reduces the need for customer and administrative support. Meanwhile, borrowers can access their accounts, make payments and manage their policies independently and through sales and support teams, which are always available for further assistance. “We’ve created a quality platform that simplifies the quoting process yet amplifies the customer experience,” says Gordon. “It’s a real game changer.” IQumulate offers an online digital quoting tool to clients. The best-in-market solution enables IQumulate to tailor funding offerings to brokers that align with their prefered distribution channel.

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What does IQumulate have in mind for the future? “IQumulate is on a technology journey, and we’re just getting started,” says Wayne Tower, CEO. “Through continuous engagement with our clients, partners, marketplace and industry, we will listen to the needs as they arise and position our business to be agile and respond to changes as they occur. “Faster decision-making innovations such as AI-powered decision support systems can expedite the underwriting and approval process, leading to quicker responses to clients. This can improve client satisfaction and potentially attract more business, with the potential to allow IQumulate to capture a larger market share, whilst continuing to deliver service excellence to clients.” “As forward-thinkers with a digital and ‘do it better’ mindset, we collectively and proactively look to learn and improve on our customer experience for our clients, paving the way for successful business outcomes for our clients and our business in the coming years ahead. “We’re excited for the future and look forward to what’s on the horizon.”

Adam Basaldella

Manager – Claims

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Claire Watson

Commercial Manager

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Ivan Verescuk

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director

Shaun O’Brien

Head of Underwriting

Emily Walker

Head of Strata and Development

Rex Oakman

Head of Operations and Risk

Sandy Newton

Head of Underwriting

Andrew Mitchell

Manager – NSW

Michael Prokopis

Manager – Southern Region

Pam Chhabra

Manager – Residential Strata

Jeffrey Valdivia

Manager – Commercial Strata

Adam Basaldella

Manager – Claims

TautSec closes the gap between cyber insurance and cyber risk reduction Recognised as one of IB’s 5-Star Insurance Innovators for 2026, TautSec has built a model that treats cyber insurance and cyber risk reduction as one connected problem rather than two separate conversations. Its direct API integration with Chubb lets brokers generate a quote, complete underwriting and bind cyber cover online within minutes. CyberPilot, its risk platform, gives businesses ongoing visibility of their exposure long after that policy is in place. TautSec describes its identity as sitting at the intersection of insurance, technology and cyber security, built to be engineering-led and commercially focused rather than shaped around the underlying technology's complexity. Removing the friction from cyber cover TautSec’s quote-and-bind platform uses publicly available cyber-risk intelligence to pre-populate underwriting information. This helps brokers move from a client conversation to a completed submission faster, while they remain in control of the cyber insurance broker journey and can work through the detail with clients before cover is bound. CyberPilot takes on the prevention side, translating recognised security frameworks, including the Australian Essential Eight, NIST and ISO 27001, into practical, prioritised actions. The platform spans asset visibility, compliance support, cyber-awareness training and a Protection Index that tracks resilience over time. TautSec’s free entry tier, CyberPilot Foundation, lets any business start that process at no cost, while every insurance customer receives complimentary access to CyberPilot Pro.

Leadership built for scale CEO Warren Zietsman, who has scaled enterprise SaaS and financial-services businesses, joined TautSec with a mandate to extend the platform beyond its home market, a task now shared across a leadership team assembled to match it. He works alongside co-founder and chief technology officer Frank Teunissen, whose background in military and commercial aviation shapes the engineering vision behind the platform. Chief financial officer Carmen Lei brings the forecasting and reporting discipline behind the company’s expansion into new markets, while chief marketing officer Mariette Snyman is building the brand and public profile needed to win over cautious buyers as TautSec pushes into unfamiliar territory. Proof in practice TautSec has already made a compelling proposition for itself. In one example, an external attack-surface scan identified issues that were initially preventing a business from securing cyber insurance. Once its technology team remediated them, cover was secured, and TautSec continues scanning that business's attack surface so new vulnerabilities surface as they arise rather than at the next renewal.

What’s next Broker channel adoption keeps growing, and complimentary access to CyberPilot Pro is helping TautSec’s insurance customers retain coverage at a high rate. Looking ahead, the company is building out broker and managed service provider relationships across the Tasman, with New Zealand targeted to reach a meaningful share of new business by the end of 2026. From there, TautSec plans to pursue supply-chain governance relationships in regulated industries internationally, building towards eventual entry into Asia, the United States and the United Kingdom, alongside deepening its carrier and data partnerships with insurers such as Chubb.