Fidelity makes two senior appointments

Fidelity Life has created a new role to drive its group risk employee benefits business and has appointed a chief marketing officer.

Wednesday, August 28th 2013, 10:48AM 1 Comment

Fidelity Life has appointed Ian Moody as Chief Marketing Officer to head the company’s product and marketing team. Hebrings a wealth of knowledge to Fidelity Life with experience in digital, brand, retail, business and segment marketing in top services brands within a corporate environment, as well as in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) category. In 2012 Ian was the winner of the TVNZ Marketer of the Year at the NZ Marketing Awards.

Previous roles include six years as Head of Marketing at Westpac Banking Group NZ and five years as Marketing and Sales Manager at Mercury Energy.

Fidelity Life chief executive Milton Jennings says Moody’s knowledge and experience will be invaluable to the company as Fidelity Life takes on a new strategic focus following the purchase of TOWER Life’s assets.

The company has also has appointed Mark Nalder (pictured) to the newly created role of Head of Corporate Distribution.He previously held the position of Head of Intermediated Distribution at TOWER; and prior to that he was at AMP for eight years working closely with the AMP adviser network. Many of the models he helped design and deliver to adviser businesses will be relevant to this new role, particularly around adviser recruitment, business valuation, succession planning, compliance support and practice management.