Zurich internally promotes exec to Head of Strategic Development

Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich) has boosted its Life Risk sales team promoting Nathan Taggart to the role of head of strategic development. In the new role, he will join the firm's distribution leadership team, reporting to Zurich Life and Investments' head of distribution Kristine Brooks.

Taggart joined Zurich in 2013 after five years at BT Financial Group. Before that he worked at Aviva Australia.

Taggart's promotion is one of eleven new appointments at Zurich, including a strategic accounts manager, a business support officer and eight regional business development managers.

Commenting on the new appointments, Brooks said: "This investment in the size of our team allows us to fully support our growing network of IFA and bank-aligned partners. It comes at a point in time when it's critical that we as an industry educate as many Australians as possible about the important role of life insurance, and do all we can to ensure as many Australians as possible are properly protected."