Construction

Main Role

Based in Sydney, Aaron underwrites construction risks across New South Wales.

Personal Profile

Aaron joined Liberty in 2023 and comes from a background underwriting construction, agriculture, and property in Australia and New Zealand.

Aaron is currently studying for a Bachelor in Urban and Regional Planning.

Department

Energy, Property & Construction

Main Role

Daniel underwrites Material Damage and Business Interruption (Delay in Start-Up / Advanced Loss of Profit) insurance for construction risks. This includes CAR, Civil, EAR risks and annual policies. Daniel can underwrite risks across Australia and New Zealand.

Personal Profile

Daniel joined Liberty’s Energy, Property and Construction team at the Melbourne office as an Assistant Underwriter in 2022, having had previous experience as an underwriter for Victorian based civil and building risks.

Daniel is a Commerce (majoring in Economics) graduate from Monash University and an Affiliate with ANZIIF.

Department

Energy, Property & Construction

Main Role

Matt's role is to oversee the Energy, Property and Construction portfolio in WA.  This involves new business development, handling renewals and actively engaging with brokers and clients to meet their insurance needs in this sector.  With his additional responsibility as WA Branch Manager, Matt also coordinates all product lines for Liberty in WA to ensure consistency across the business and to assist where possible in broadening our value proposition and customer focussed culture.

Personal Profile

Matt has worked in the insurance industry for over 31 years and has experience in underwriting, broking and reinsurance.  Matt worked in Melbourne for 11 years and has been based in Perth since 2001 and with Liberty since the opening of its Perth office in 2012. 

He is a Senior Associate of ANZIIF.

Department

Energy, Property & Construction

Main role

Melinda underwrites Material Damage and Business Interruption (delay in start-up/advanced loss of profit) insurance for Contract Works (Erection Risks, Construction Risks and Civil Construction Risks), as well as annual Contractor and Principal cover.  She underwrites to a national portfolio from her base in the Liberty Melbourne office.

Personal profile

Melinda joined Liberty Sydney’s Energy, Property & Construction team in 2010 as an assistant underwriter.  In 2011 she transferred to Liberty Melbourne, where she worked primarily on Construction and Property before becoming an underwriter with a core focus on Construction.

Melinda holds an Advanced Diploma in Business and is a graduate of the International Association of Engineering Insurers (IMIA) Engineering Academy.  She is a Senior Associate with ANZIIF.

Department

Energy, Property, Construction and Terrorism

Main role

Tom underwrites Material Damage and Advanced Loss of Profits cover for construction risks across Australia and New Zealand.  These risks include EAR, CAR, Civils and annual covers.

Personal profile

Tom has considerable underwriting experience with both Liberty and the insurance market in general. Tom spent 6 years at Liberty from 2008 - 2014 and was National Construction Manager before leaving for a 5 year tree change in Orange. In 2019, Tom rejoined Liberty with a focus on construction and renewable energy. In his time at Liberty, Tom has written covers for a wide range of projects including LNG trains, sports stadiums, roads, tunnels, mines, gas pipelines, power stations, light rail and hospitals.

Department

Construction, Energy & Property Claims

Main Role

Based in Sydney, Ben oversees Liberty's Australian Construction and Energy claims portfolio, and also assists with the handling of larger Property claims.

Personal Profile

Before starting with Liberty in 2021, Ben has worked in claims both Internationally and in the Australian insurance markets since 2008. His experience spans from working for leading insurers as a senior Loss Adjuster, as well as in major loss claims at an international brokerage.

Ben holds a Masters in Property Valuation, is a Chartered Loss Adjuster and ANZIIF Senior Associate CIP.

Department

Claims

Main Role

Laries is based in Malaysia and handles First Party claims across the Asia Pacific with a diverse portfolio of Marine, Energy, Property and Construction.

Personal Profile

Laries joined Liberty in 2023 and previously worked with the underwriting department of a life insurance company. 

Laries holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) Actuarial Science and is currently pursuing the Associateship of The Malaysian Insurance Institute (AMII).

Department

Claims

Main role

Nathan leads the First Party Claims team for Asia Pacific, encompassing Liberty's Agriculture, Marine, Energy, Property, Construction and Terrorism products. He is responsible for ensuring a proactive, technically sound, and commercially pragmatic Claims service across these product lines. 

Personal profile

Nathan joined Liberty in 2008. He has managed Liberty's Asia Pacific Workers Compensation claims portfolio, the Australian Claims team across all products and the Asia Pacific First Party Claims team.

Nathan also served as Chief Legal Counsel for Asia Pacific and previously qualified as an accredited mediator.

Prior to joining Liberty, Nathan worked in both private practice and in-house legal roles. He has extensive experience in litigation, alternative dispute resolution, product development, wording reviews and managing highly complex claims across all of Liberty's product lines. 

Department

Claims

Main Role

Nelfi is based in Malaysia and provides support to the First Party claims team in Asia Pacific.

Personal Profile

Nelfi joined Liberty in 2022 with legal and insurance industry experience, managing claims.  Nelfi focuses on First Party Energy, Property, Construction and Marine claims.

Nelfi holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) (Honours) degree.

Department

Claims

Main Role

Phil is based in the Singapore office and manages Energy Property and Construction claims across Asia Pacific.

Personal Profile

Phil joined Liberty at the beginning of 2021 from a global insurer in Singapore and has a background in large and complex First Party claims with particular focus on Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, Power, Property, and Construction.  Originally from the UK, he worked in the London insurance market before relocating to Singapore in 2013.

Phil has nearly twenty years’ experience in handling claims in the London and Singapore insurance markets.

Department

Claims

Main Role

Yvonne is based in the Malaysia office and provides claim support for the First Party claims team in Asia Pacific.

Personal Profile

Yvonne joined Liberty in 2019 and has been in the insurance industry since 2014 including her time working with an insurance broker.

She holds a Bachelor of Business & Commerce and is currently working towards an Associateship of the Malaysian Insurance Institute (AMII).

Department

Risk Engineering - Energy, Property & Construction

Main Role

David provides risk engineering support to the Energy, Property and Construction underwriting and claims teams by performing analysis and evaluation of risks.

Personal Profile

David joined Liberty in 2023, bringing with him 20 years of experience managing insureds' accounts.  He began his career in 1998 conducting energy audits of buildings, then moved into property and liability insurance surveys.

David holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of NSW, Sydney.

Department

Energy, Property & Construction

Main Role

Risk Engineer

Personal Profile

Master of Engineering (Chemical) with a background in risk and process safety in Oil and Gas, Renewables Energy, Chemical Manufacturing, and Mining. I have joined Liberty in 2024 from a previous role in the Renewable Energy Generation.

Department

Energy, Property & Construction

Main Role

Based in Sydney, Mehdi works across the Asia Pacific region conducting site surveys and assessing risk in oil and gas production; refining; power generation; mining and construction projects.  His key priorities are in providing regional direction with technical support to Liberty's underwriters as well as providing risk control consultation to brokers and clients.

Personal Profile

Mehdi holds an Honours degree in Chemical Engineering.  He has worked in various risk management roles since 2009 and has been trained as a fire protection engineer and chemical risk surveyor in the United States and Germany respectively.  He has worked internationally and provided consultation in the specific areas of fire, machinery breakdown and natural hazard perils to a variety of different sectors, with special focus on the petrochemicals industry.

Mehdi is a member of the Institution of Engineers Australia, and a Chartered Professional Engineer (Australia), including registration under Queensland legislation (RPEQ).  Mehdi is also an associate member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers in the specialist field of Process Safety.

Department

Energy, Property & Construction

Main role

Based in Melbourne, Phillip provides guidance to Liberty's Energy, Property and Construction underwriters on technical aspects of risk selection in the Australasian region, as well as providing risk control expertise to brokers and clients.  Working closely with Liberty's global team of risk engineers and claims professionals, Phillip specialises in Highly Protected Risk and high-challenge risk engineering.

Personal profile

Phillip started his career in the building services industry, having graduated with Honours in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Melbourne.  He later progressed into the technical evaluation of risk, providing risk engineering services to global property insurers.  Over the years, Phillip has participated in fire protection and natural hazards training programmes both in Australia and abroad, with a focused progression as a global flood and earthquake hazard specialist. 

Having provided risk engineering services to the insurance industry for over a decade, Phillip brings extensive knowledge and experience to our team.

Department

Energy, Property & Construction

Main Role

Based in Sydney, Raymond focuses on civil construction project risk assessments and surveys in support of Underwriting and Claims Teams across Australia and Asia.

Personal Profile

Raymond joined Liberty in 2023, bringing with him over 20 years of experience in the civil construction industry.

Having graduated with Honours in Civil Engineering and a Masters in Engineering Science from the University of New South Wales, Raymond started his career as a Geotechnical Engineer. He progressed to work for international multi-disciplinary design consultants participating in a wide range of large infrastructure projects, followed by joining a global insurer as a risk engineer providing services for construction, natural hazards and climate change lines of business.