ING Australiahas appointed ex-Tower Australiahead of product Darren Stevens to the newly created role of national manager for employer super and group risk distribution.
According to ING Stevens has been appointed to head up the task of building the group’s employer super and group risk business through its own distribution channels but also through a direct sales strategy into the wider market.
The appointment of Stevens, who will report through to ING executive director for sales and national distribution Charles Smith, closes out a series of changes within the ING sales team over the last six months.
The first round of staff movements began in July last year when head of funds management markets at ING, Jarrod Brown took on the role of head of funds management distribution. He has since left to head upIOOFretail funds management operations.
However Brown’s role was split between a number of other staff with Anna Marie Kwan Emery taking on marketing and Tom Griffith becoming the head of employer super.
In August ING named Jihad Essa fromZurich Financial Servicesas a new national sales manager taking over from Phil Keown who moved from national manager for aligned distribution groups to NSW state manager.
At the time the group said it had to make one further sales executive appointment to complete the final stages of its recent major restructuring across the area.
Stevens, who has more than 17 years industry experience, was most recently head of product at Tower Australia, where he also previously held the roles of national manager – employee benefits operations and national manager – product and strategy.
Stevens left Tower in September last year after seven years with the group, and has since worked briefly as a consulting actuary withAsteron.
