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"West Oak’s success has come from always putting our clients’ best interests first and always finding ways to improve and add more value to them"
Andrew mcquiston,
west oak family office, wellington-altus private wealth
A passionate customer advocate, Amy Cavanaugh is committed to ensuring that New Zealanders have access to the information they need to make their own decisions around insurance and have an easy way to implement them. Her focus on ensuring that both her own and her team’s work adds value to customers has empowered the people around her and is a touchstone of decision-making processes across individual teams and the whole business.
As Pinnacle Life’s general manager of operations, Amy is responsible for overseeing and ensuring optimal business performance. She ensures that customers remain at the centre of business processes and projects while providing technical expertise and leadership for process and product development and strategic thinking to drive business growth and success. Having worked across insurance and banking in strategic and operational roles before joining Pinnacle Life in 2018, much of her recent activity has focused on expanding Pinnacle Life’s risk management framework in a challenging and evolving regulatory environment. In 2021, she implemented a digital advice tool that is the first of its kind in New Zealand to provide personalised life insurance online.
Amy Cavanaugh
General Manager, Operations
Pinnacle Life
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2020
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Receive an excellence award
2020
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2019
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
TeD Talk Speaker
2019
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2018
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2018
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2020-2021
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Received Lexology Client Choice Award (Labour and Employment – Canada)
2020-2021
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2014-2022
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Received Best Lawyer in Canada Award (Employment and Labour Law)
2014-2022
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2022
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Smart Mortgage was recognised
as Best Performing Team
(first half of financial year 2022)
2022
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2020
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Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Manager, broker division
at Finni Mortgages
2020–present
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2021
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Recognised as a Young Gun by
Insurance Business
Finalist, Young Insurance Professional of the Year, ANZIIF New Zealand Insurance Industry Awards
2021
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2020–
present
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Independent Director
Norfolk Mortgage Trust
2020–present
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2018–
present
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
General Manager Operations
Pinnacle Life
2018–present
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2020–present
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2020–present
2022
Amy Cavanaugh
General Manager, Operations
Pinnacle Life
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2022
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Smart Mortgage was recognised as Best Performing Team (first half of financial year 2022)
2022
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2020–present
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Manager, broker division at Finni Mortgages
2020–present
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2021
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Recognised as a Young Gun by Insurance Business
Finalist, Young Insurance Professional of the Year, ANZIIF New Zealand Insurance Industry Awards
2021
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2020–present
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Independent Director
Norfolk Mortgage Trust
2020–present
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2018–present
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
General Manager Operations
Pinnacle Life
2018–present
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2020
2019
2018
2020-2021
2014-2022
2020
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Receive an excellence award
2020
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2019
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
TeD Talk Speaker
2019
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2018
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2018
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2020-2021
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Received Lexology
Client Choice Award
(Labour and Employment – Canada)
2020-2021
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2014-2022
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Received Best Lawyer in
Canada Award
(Employment and Labour Law)
2014-2022
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pinnaclelife.co.nz
linkedin.com/in/amycavanaughnz
amy@pinnaclelife.co.nz
0800 22 22 23
Level 2, 27 Gillies Avenue, Newmarket, Auckland
General Manager, Operations
Pinnacle Life
Amy Cavanaugh
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2019–present
2018–present
2021
2020–present
2018–present
2019–present
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Commenced at The Knox School in Victoria, 2019
Mentor, 2019–2020
Senior School Lead Mentor, 2021
Interim Head of House, 2021
Head of Languages, 2022
2019–present
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2018–present
Human Resources Magazine | key media
Head of Faculty in English and Languages at St Patrick’s College Townsville
2018–present
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2021
Year 5 Teacher
Recognised as a Young Gun by Insurance Business
Finalist, Young Insurance Professional of the Year,
ANZIIF New Zealand Insurance Industry Awards
2021
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2020–present
Human Resources Magazine | key media
Independent Director
Norfolk Mortgage Trust
2020–present
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2018–present
human resources | key media
General Manager Operations
Pinnacle Life
2018–present
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