TAL has expanded its retail insurance sales team with the appointment of Beau Riley as National Dealership Manager and Marcus O’Sullivan as Queensland State Sales Manager.
Beau Riley, formerly Head of Retail Business Development at RGA, will manage TAL's dealer group partnerships while Marcus O'Sullivan, formerly National Manager for Risk at BT Dealer Groups, will manage TAL's Queensland-based sales activity.
Brett Clark, TAL's CEO for Retail Life, said the appointments form part of TAL's sales strategy to provide responsive and personalised service to its distribution partners.
"Our partnership model with advisers is multi-dimensional. The calibre and performance of our sales and relationship team is a key component of this," Mr Clark said.
"With the expansion of our team, TAL is well-positioned to deliver on our partnership promise to risk advisers - now, and into the future. I'm delighted to welcome executives of the calibre of Beau and Marcus aboard."
Beau Riley joins TAL with more than 10 years' industry experience in senior sales-based management roles, while Marcus O'Sullivan come with over 20 years' experience across advice, underwriting and claims management.
TAL is ranked Australia's number one insurer based on Plan for Life's Risk Insurance Benchmarking Report at June 2011. TAL has won numerous industry accolades including Life Company of the Year 2010 (AFA/Plan for Life), Income Protection Award 2010 (AFA/Plan for Life) and Trauma Insurance Award 2010 (AFA/Plan for Life).