Headquarters:
Level 3, 213 Miller Street, North Sydney, NSW 2060
Year founded:
1996
Number of employees:
201
Phone:
(02) 9966 8820
Email:
assist@iqumulate.com
Website:
gtins.com.au
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/global-transport-&-automotive-insurance-solutions-pty-ltd
“What drives our success is our results-driven people. Capable, entrepreneurial Rohitians are the driving force behind our growth”,
Masa Idelbi,
Manager - Human Resources
Tony Dodd
Chief Executive Officer
Chris Kindred
General Manager, Information Technology
Angela Stevens
General Manager, Claims
Leadership
Tony Dodd is the CEO of GT Insurance. With a strong customer-centric disposition and a passion for employee engagement, Dodd enthusiastically promotes the GT company value of fairness. His skills, values and ambitions have been formulated from his 28 years of working in the general insurance industry, beginning as a junior clerk and working through claims, underwriting and sales.
Combining this exposure with many volunteer hours supporting various community charities has encouraged Dodd’s ingrained values of humility, empathy, and service. With an upbeat and positive nature, he embraces change and encourages others to seek opportunities to fulfil their vision with his skills in goal achievement.
Away from work, Dodd continues to work with charities. He is the father of three teenage children and gives credit to his better half, Bree, for keeping him grounded and focused.
Chief Executive Officer
Tony Dodd
Chris Kindred is the general manager of information technology at GT Insurance. He has over 25 years of experience in general insurance and has enjoyed various roles in management, claims and underwriting. He has spent the past 15 years at GT Insurance, committed to building a dynamic and profitable business with a highly successful culture.
Kindred is keenly focused on delivering market-leading customer service and developing business efficiencies through the effective use of technology. He is passionate about growing an agile agency business that is responsive to changing customer needs.
General Manager, Information Technology
Chris Kindred
Angela Stevens is the general manager for claims at GT Insurance. Before being promoted, she served as national claims manager at GT Insurance for 11 years, overseeing the company’s claims management in nine branches across Australia.
She began her insurance career with CGU in 1994 and now has 23 years of experience working in the commercial sector, covering claims management, customer service, sales, staff development and training.
Stevens is a certified insurance professional. She is a senior associate at ANZIIF. She completed her advanced diploma in leadership and management at the Australian College of Commerce and Management in April 2022. Stevens was also recognised as one of Insurance Business Australia’s Elite Women for three consecutive years in 2020–22.
General Manager, Claims
Angela Stevens
“What drives our success is our results-driven people. Capable, entrepreneurial Rohitians are the driving force behind our growth”,
Masa Idelbi,
Manager - Human Resources
“We continue to see cyber as a key opportunity and will be further developing customer-centric solutions across various geographies and segments in line with our growth aspirations”
Erica Kofie, QBE
Leadership
“We continue to see cyber as a key opportunity and will be further developing customer-centric solutions across various geographies and segments in line with our growth aspirations”
Erica Kofie, QBE
“What drives our success is our results-driven people. Capable, entrepreneurial Rohitians are the driving force behind our growth”,
Masa Idelbi, Manager - Human Resources
Leadership
Wai-Lum Tang
Head of Information Technology
Wai-Lum Tang has close to 20 years of experience within the retail, property, construction, funds management and teleradiology industries. He joined Macquarie Bank in 2019 as part of the Macquarie Pacific Funding divestment to lead the technology stream of work. This included the creation of all new technology services for the IQumulate business. Tang has led many transformation projects in his career and brings with him a pragmatic and entrepreneurial leadership style.
Head of Information Technology
Wai-Lum Tang
Graeme Gordon
Head of Sales
Graeme Gordon is the head of sales for Australia and New Zealand. He joined MPF in 2017 as an account manager and was promoted to relationship manager in 2019. He was then promoted again to the role of manager – NZ at the start of 2020. Gordon has led from the front in New Zealand since his commencement, achieving exceptional growth year after year and collaborating effectively across departments and on many projects. Most recently, he was invited to participate as a member of the Extended Leadership Team in recognition of what he has achieved and, in that process, provide his insights for IQumulate’s long-term direction.
Head of Sales
Graeme Gordon
For more than 25 years, GT Insurance has provided tailored insurance solutions for Australia's transport and heavy motor industries. The company was founded on the concept of fairness, a principle that continues to drive it today. The value of fairness is central to its decision-making processes and its interactions with staff, policyholders, brokers and service providers. In addition, fairness anchors its company culture, with an ethos to provide personal support, flexible working arrangements, and career development opportunities for its staff.
GT Insurance is a proud sponsor of Healthy Heads in Trucks & Sheds, a not-for-profit organisation that aims to develop a national mental health strategy for truck drivers, distribution centres and warehouse staff.
GT Insurance believes that fairness in the workplace creates a positive environment for its employees, supporting the mental health and wellbeing of everyone in its community.
“We continue to see cyber as a key opportunity and will be further developing customer-centric solutions across various geographies and segments in line with our growth aspirations”
Erica Kofie, QBE
Paul Behm
Underwriting Manager – Hospitality
Barry Long
Team Manager – General Liability
Chris Bounos
Underwriting Manager – Professional Risks
Simon Williams
Chief Strategy & Distribution Officer, Arch Insurance International
and Active Underwriter, Syndicate 1955
Paul Behm joined Pen in 2017 as hospitality underwriting manager.
Behm is a career insurance industry professional with 25 years of experience covering underwriting, business development, relationship management, broking and portfolio management.
For the last 13 years, Behm has been focused on the delivery of products to the hospitality sector and has built significant relationships across this industry group.
Behm has a passion for service that is translated into speed to market and deep knowledge of Pen’s products and how they relate to the hospitality industry.
Underwriting Manager – Hospitality
Paul Behm
Barry Long joined Pen in May 2021 and was appointed team manager at the end of 2021. He leads a team of highly experienced liability underwriters across the Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane offices and is dedicated to providing outstanding service and technical expertise to the company’s brokers. Long and his team collaborate with brokers to develop innovative products and risk solutions across a wide range of liability classes, both primary and excess. The company’s broad appetite and superior capacity enable it to tailor its coverage to meet its clients’ needs.
Long began his insurance career after university, first in broking and then in underwriting financial lines. He moved into casualty underwriting in 2011, where he has underwritten and managed portfolios of complex corporate, energy, mining and construction risks, most recently at Zurich.
Team Manager – General Liability
Barry Long
Chris Bounos is the professional risks underwriting manager at Pen. He has been with the company since 2016. Bounos has been underwriting PI for 16 years, having worked at Dual, Allianz and Quanta.
The professional risks team specialises in excess loss, professional indemnity and cyber. The PI focus is mostly on the construction and engineering sectors for medium-sized and smaller corporate accounts, as well as lawyers and other miscellaneous professions. The company’s cyber facility has a very broad appetite and can accommodate risks up to $450m in turnover.
The professional risks team prides itself on service, technical knowledge and a solution-driven attitude for their broking partners.
Underwriting Manager – Professional Risks
Chris Bounos
Kimi Shah leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic, and tailored to each situation.
Partner
Kimi Shah
Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
Partner
Kimi Shah
Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
Partner
Kimi Shah
“Despite the challenging claims environment, QBE’s coverage and risk appetite have remained consistent. Brokers and customers know and understand our risk appetite and the cover we offer, providing them with certainty for the future,” says Erica Kofie, head of cyber proposition. “We put our customers at the centre of our business, responding to brokers in a proactive and timely manner and working with the customer to understand their unique risk profile and tailor appropriate solutions.”
Kofie adds, “Through 2022, QBE successfully delivered significant growth in the cyber sector, reflecting the depth and strength of our team. We continue to see cyber as a key opportunity and will be further developing customer-centric solutions across various geographies and segments in line with our growth aspirations.”
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The Rohit Group acknowledges the importance of mental health awareness and supports all its employees and their families by offering a Customized Mental Health Program with regular Mental Health Workshops to all Rohitians. The program covers up to $2,500 per employee for additional psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health specialists, marriage counsellors, and more. The company also collaborates with its psychologist partner to cover the cost of all confidential counselling sessions for staff and their family members.
Under Rohit University, the company introduced customized mental health workshops where every employee can learn about mental health, proactively address mental health issues on personal and professional levels and become more resilient. Over the past two years, the Rohit Group celebrates Mental Health Awareness Week in Canada (May 1-7) by having a townhall to discuss the year’s theme.
With emphasis on living a culture of continuous learning and development, Rohit University is launched by the Human Resources team to address the drive for growth. It offers a variety of different technical and interpersonal courses to address the needs of Rohit’s growing business. Rohit University’s Leadership Development Program is the first program launched in November 2022 in collaboration with University of Alberta’s Executive Education Program. Since launching, Rohit University has provided meaningful learning experiences for 40 people leaders on Emotional Intelligence (learning about self), how to manage others (different personality), financial and strategic management, and being comfortable with discomfort (decision making).
To build on its exceptional employee learning programs, the Rohit Group regularly partners with other organizations to provide Rohitians with a variety of courses on problem solving in home building, construction and condo fundamentals, stress management, and work-life balance to mention few.
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