About Us

Whilst we started operations under this name in July 2008, our origins date back to 1998.

Long term insurer support is testament to the quality of our underwriters with Lumley support since 2001 and QBE since 2003.

Our underwriting team consists of:

Roy Nahas, Executive Chairman

38 years Insurance Underwriting within Australia and overseas.
Roy’s early career spans New Zealand Insurance, Insurance Company of North America, Carlingford Insurance and Royal, where he held many senior underwriting and management positions. Since 1991, SA State Manager, Regional Manager, General Manager North and General Manager, Third Party Distribution for QBE Insurance (Australia) Limited.

Since 2006, via his private company InsureSolve Pty Ltd, Roy has been retained by QBE in a consulting and new business capacity, plus Roy continues to consult to a number of companies on insurance and compliance related matters.

Qualifications – Associate, Australian Insurance Institute and Associate, Australian Institute of Management.

Kerry Henry, Managing Director

37 years Insurance Broking & Underwriting, international Merchant Banking and Strategic Marketing industry experience at Director, Managing Director & Vice President levels at CGU, Lumley, Reed Stenhouse, Jardine, Sedgwick, Citibank and Strategic Synergy.

Experience incorporates general insurance broking, audit insurance; fee funding; deposit, commercial lease bonds and a wide range of other surety bonds. Enhanced by his 9 years international merchant banking career with Citibank, Kerry’s latter years in insurance broking was focused on working with major corporates and financial institutions on financial risk products, involving risk transfer, residual risk, bonds, credit risk and enhancement, balance sheet leveraging, etc.

Qualifications - Qualified Practicing Insurance Broker & MBA, Marketing.

Anthony Ruppas, Deputy Managing Director

32 years Insurance, Surety and Banking & Finance industry experience at Manager and Managing Director levels at Royal & Sun Alliance (Vero), ANZ Bank and St George Bank . Since January 2001 General Manager, Shield Underwriting Agencies specialising in Deposit and Lease Bonds.

Qualifications - Fellow Australia and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance & Fellow Financial Services Institute of Australasia.

Pablo Inostroza, Underwriting Manager

15 years IT, Retail Banking and Surety Insurance. Since 2002, has specialised in Deposit & Lease Bonds and Trade Credit Insurance.

Qualifications - Diploma or certificate level in IT, Engineering and Financial Services.

Jonathan Cruz, Senior Underwriter

17 years in finance, banking, mortgage broking and insurance bond underwriting.

Qualifications – Diploma, Financial Services.