Featured – best female insurance leaders in Australia 2023

In 2016, Schnehage’s company won the Underwriting Agency of the Year award. After seven years, Schnehage sold her underwriting agency to Hollard Insurance in South Africa and joined its personal lines division, assisting with the development of its new personal lines’ product offering.

In 2019, Schnehage uprooted herself and her family to join Innovation Group Australia, where nobody knew her, to lead the Australian operations in her capacity as managing director.

Gillian Davidson, Sparke Helmore Lawyers

Davidson is a partner at Sparke Helmore Lawyers and the chair of its diversity and inclusion advisory committee.

As a senior partner and market-leading expert specialising in general commercial insurance, Davidson leads the firm’s national liability team of over 50 partners and lawyers. She advises many of the largest Australian and international insurers, the London market, underwriting agencies, brokers, claims managers, third-part administrators, and insureds and manages complex multi-party claims that require an additional layer of sensitivity and proactive response (including advising on Royal Commissions).