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Allianz strengthens motor trade team with three regional management appointments
Allianz Insurance has announced three new management appointments across its motor trade business.
Simon Barker takes on the role of regional motor trade underwriting manager, North & Scotland. Under his new responsibilities he will be leading the underwriting discipline within Allianz’s newly formed Motor Trade Centre of Excellence (North) and he will play an integral part within the regional management team. Having joined Allianz in 2004, Simon has held several key roles in motor trade underwriting. He most recently held the position of motor trade account underwriter since 2016.
Helen Unitt and Spencer Berry both take to the role of regional motor trade manager, South. They will have joint responsibility for setting the underwriting strategy and profitably growing Allianz’s motor trade business in the south. They will also manage the Motor Trade Centre of Excellence (South).
Helen joined Allianz in 2005 as an assistant underwriter at the Southampton branch. She held a number of key roles across Property & Casualty and new business development before taking on the position of motor trade account underwriter in 2013.
Spencer has held a variety of positions at Allianz, having joined the Milton Keynes branch in 2000 as a commercial underwriter. He previously worked across personal lines, commercial and SME before specialising in motor trade and taking on the position of motor trade manager for central & east in 2017.
Sarah Mallaby, director of broker markets, Allianz Insurance, commented:
“I’m really pleased to be announcing these three appointments within the motor trade team. Helen, Spencer and Simon have a vast amount of experience and knowledge in the motor trade sector and I have no doubt that their combined expertise will deliver excellent results for this pivotal business area. I wish them great success in their new roles.”
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1. Images of Helen, Spencer and Simon are available to download below.
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The Allianz Group is one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers with more than 92 million retail and corporate customers. Allianz customers benefit from a broad range of personal and corporate insurance services, ranging from property, life and health insurance to assistance services to credit insurance and global business insurance. Allianz is one of the world’s largest investors, managing around 673 billion euros on behalf of its insurance customers. Furthermore our asset managers PIMCO and Allianz Global Investors manage more than 1.4 trillion euros of third-party assets. Thanks to our systematic integration of ecological and social criteria in our business processes and investment decisions, we hold the leading position for insurers in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. In 2018, over 142,000 employees in more than 80 countries achieved total revenues of 131 billion euros and an operating profit of 11.5 billion euros for the group.
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