Ash moves to Zurcih
Former Bleakleys chief executive officer Tony Ash has moved back into mainstream financial services, joining Zurich Financial Services as Queensland state manager.
Former Bleakleys chief executive officer Tony Ash has moved back into mainstream financial services, joining Zurich Financial Services as Queensland state manager.
Ash has spent the last 18 months as a consultant reviewing distribution strategies for Zurich as a consultant since departing Bleakleys.
Ash left Bleakleys under a cloud after only serving 18 months of a three year contract.
Since then Ash has consulted Zurich on the development of a new service operation for the group.
“I’ve been helping construct a service company for financial planning practices as part of the consulting role. As an employee there will be a greater focus on the responsibility of increasing distribution in Queensland,” Ash says.
“This is an opportunity to bring commercial experience of creating distribution into a funds management group. I will be helping planners and dealers, who are always in a state of re-inventing themselves, where that type of expertise is thin on the ground in Queensland.”
Ash took over the state manager’s position from Trevor Susman who has left funds management to head into financial planning.
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