About Tony

Tony has more than 25 years of high-level experience in the risk consulting and insurance sectors.

Before joining Risk Advisory Services, Tony was Corporate State Manager of Aon, where he led and managed the largest group of insurance brokers in Australia.

Prior to this Tony spent nine years at the International Risk Management Group (IRMG), providing advice on risk retention, risk transfer and outsourcing to some of the largest organisations in Europe, the USA and Australasia.

As a Chartered Accountant at Ernst & Young, Tony conducted audits of insurance companies, banks and building societies.

About Gordon

Gordon’s extensive and varied career in risk management stretches back to the early 1990s.

He first provided consultancy services at London firm Tillinghast/Towers Perrin before heading to the United States to develop and manage risk management programs at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

Relocating to Australia, Gordon played a leading role in helping to ensure the smooth running of the 2000 Games in Sydney.

Before joining Risk Advisory Services in 2007, he was the head of the risk management office at the University of Sydney.

About Steve

Steve leads our Victorian operations and has worked in risk and insurance consulting for more than 20 years.

Before joining Risk Advisory Services, he was General Manager of Strategy & Risk for the Victorian Managed Insurance Authority (VMIA), where he built a risk consulting practice servicing the authority’s several thousand clients.

Highlights include developing the Risk Framework and Quality Review Program for Victoria, directing the Inaugural VMIA Risk Management Conference and developing a range of tools and products for use across the state.

Steve was also a Director with Ernst & Young, specialising in strategic risk assignments for a range of large organisations.

Steve’s career has also included roles as CRO and CFO at AWB Ltd, where highlights include overseeing AWB’s billion dollar market and operational risks and due diligence work in preparation for listing of AWB Ltd in 2001.

About Andre

Andre is the Director of Operations for RAS nationally.  He has 25 years of legal and insurance experience and has worked extensively as Group Insurance Manager for significant organisations in both energy and aviation to evolve complex and sophisticated risk financing programs.  He has also gained significant experience working on difficult and high value insurance claims in both of these industries. In addition, he has been a Director of a Bermudian domiciled private Excess Casualty Insurer (Chairman) and a Director of a Bermudian domiciled Mutual Insurance Company. Andre began his insurance career providing legal advice in the Claims Division of Guardian National Insurance company, in Cape Town, South Africa.

About Peter

Peter is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, holds a Masters Degree in International Relations and is a committee member of the Risk Management Institute of Australia.

He has held senior executive and director roles in Wesfarmers owned Risk and Insurance businesses over a 15-year period, incorporating P&L responsibility, providing risk related advisory services to directors and boards in a wide range of industry sectors.

Peter’s experience has also included executive responsibility for the delivery of risk management services for multinational mining engineering, environmental and ethical supply chain advisory firms.

About Irene

Irene joined Risk Advisory Services as a Director in November 2021. She has 20 years of insurance experience working in Australia and the US. Irene has held senior leadership roles at both Marsh and JLT where in addition to her roles across placement services, client management and team leadership she was extensively involved in the design and placement of complex global insurance programmes often involving strategic consideration of alternative risk finance vehicles and their optimal participation in these global programs. Irene has market-leading expertise in the design and placement of complex insurance programmes.

About Russell

Russell is a Senior Consultant with over 20 years of insurance experience.

Russell has worked predominantly as an in-house Insurance Manager for several of Sydney’s largest local councils, and also large global companies with insurance programmes spanning South East Asia, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. Russell has successfully managed many large loss claims where insurance was in dispute, including the Bankstown City Council fire in 1997.

About Sarah

Sarah holds a Master’s degree in Law and has 8 years of specialist experience as a Professional Lines insurance broker.

Previously Sarah operated her own legal practice in the UK. This combination of practical legal experience, extensive law related studies, and working in the insurance industry provides Sarah with a sound base to provide specialist financial lines insurance consulting services.

About Dave

Dave joined Risk Advisory Services in May 2018 with over 10 years of experience in insurance broking.

Dave combines a deep technical knowledge of insurance products with commercial experience across a wide range of industries, and enjoys applying those skills to deliver true value outside of the sales-driven broking environment.  Since joining RAS he has focussed mainly on due diligence projects for corporate transactions, identifying and implementing improvements and synergies in insurance programmes.

About Chantale

Chantale Walker joined RAS on in April 2021 as a Senior Consultant. Chantale worked at the global broker Marsh Pty Ltd for many years in Risk Management on their large corporate clients as well as web development and operations in Marsh’s MCIA division. In more recent times she has worked at local brokers on their largest clients, which included complex and hard to place risks.

About Aleks

Aleks joined Risk Advisory Services in mid-2020, having begun his career in insurance broking in early 2009.

His experience is with international and niche insurance broking organisations.  As such, Aleks is well placed to assist businesses that require specialist solutions for property, liability, and financial insurable risks.

Aleks is motivated in assisting clients with tailored risk management and insurance advisory services including premium saving strategies.

Reflecting his interest in risk management, Aleks is a WA committee member of the Risk Management Institute of Australasia (RMIA).

About Fiona

Fiona is a Senior Consultant of Risk Advisory Services and is responsible for Insurance Consulting and support of the Director of Operations. She has over 30 years of insurance experience and has developed, implemented and assisted numerous private and public sector clients with their risk management and insurance programmes in a variety of industries including Comcover – the federal governments vehicle for insurance of their assets and liabilities, private prisons and detention centres, wholesale grocers, financial institutions, property trust managers, real estate agents, hydro-electric authority, motor vehicle rental company, importers and distributors, chemical factory, consultants, SME size businesses and NFP’s.  She currently acts as the outsourced insurance manager for Sonic Healthcare Limited and provides support to the Director of Operations for RAS.

About Josh

Josh is a Senior Consultant of Risk Advisory Services and has over 10 years insurance industry experience.  Before joining RAS, Josh was the Insurance Manager for Melbourne Water looking after their corporate insurance program. Key highlights include the negotiation of multiple multi-million dollar claims on behalf of Melbourne Water and held a representative position on the Vic Water Corporations (VWC) Insurance Advisory Committee assisting the 18 Victorian water authorities with their insurance strategy.  

Prior to Melbourne Water, Josh held broking roles with both Marsh and Gallagher servicing a range of clients within the energy & utilities sector supporting them in the placement and development of their corporate insurance programs.

Josh commenced his career in workers compensation and has nearly 5 years workers compensation claims management experience supporting early return to work initiatives and personal injury management.