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Ballantyne running Accuro

Wednesday, July 28th 2010, 11:27AM 7 Comments

Former ING Life managing director Naomi Ballantyne is currently acting chief executive at health insurer Accuro.

Ballantyne joined the board earlier this year and took over running the business last month on a part-time basis after former CEO Ruth Colenso left. She left the company for personal reasons.

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On 28 July 2010 at 12:00 pm Paul T said:
Is Naomi Ballantyne still Managing Director of the insurance broking firm US ADVICE that consistently promotes itself as unbiased and impartial? Says she is on their website as at today, so you would wonder about that impartiality towards both Accuro and ING.
On 28 July 2010 at 3:17 pm Johnny Adviser said:
You mean the same Naomi Ballantyne who is also a director of Newpark?
On 29 July 2010 at 8:31 am Steven said:
Johnny, if you are going to post make sure you have your facts right. The word you should have used is Boardmember not director. Big difference.
On 29 July 2010 at 9:21 pm Naomi Ballantyne said:
Us Advice offers unbiased, expert advice based on a comprehensive recommendation process backed by compreshensive product research. We are very confident that our processes would stand up to any level of scruitiny. My temporary role as caretaker CEO whilst the Accuro board puts in place its permanent leadership plans is something that I am happy to contribute. My long term commitments are as Managing Director of Us Advice and as a non-executive board member for Accuro. My involvement with Accuro has not and will not have any influence in respect of the Us Advice research and recommendation process. Accuro is certainly one of the product providers covered by our research and certainly has been the recommended product for customers for whom relatively high value for low cost is their key requirement. Our entire business model has been designed to deliver the best advice to our customers for their individual circumstances - something we would encourage every adviser to do.
On 30 July 2010 at 4:24 pm Graham B said:
Given Naomi's pointed dig at other insurance advisers (ie competitors to Us Advice) to deliver best and unbiased advice, apparently like her team does, then I think she is somewhat naive to think that also being the caretaker CEO of one of the companies they clearly promote to their clients sends anything other than mixed messages in terms of perceived bias
On 5 August 2010 at 11:15 am Carol said:
Yes - Naomi seems to forget that without brokers and their support a new company like Club Life would never have made it to first base. Funny how the home plate changes depending on the team you choose to play for. Stop knocking the advisors it is not the first time Naomi!
On 11 August 2010 at 9:14 am John said:
In my world a non-executive board member is still a Director, or is in not??
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