The “best of the best” Australian insurance MDs in 2023

Stefan Feldmann, HDI Global

Stefan Feldmann is the managing director of HDI Global SE Australia and the head of HDI Global Asia Pacific.

Since restarting the HDI Global SE brand after joining the group in 2010, Feldmann has helped the business achieve significant growth and has built and led a strong and innovative team. He is responsible for increasing the company’s global alignment and visibility in the market and ensuring that it remains close with its clients, adapts to changing risks, and focuses on solutions.

Feldmann oversees the group’s Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong operations. Since Feldmann assumed responsibility in 2016, the Singapore office has consistently delivered and grown into a sizeable insurance player in the region. At the beginning of 2023, HDI Global brought the Hong Kong office – responsible for Greater China and South Korea – into a new regional Asia-Pacific structure. The company is now one of the leading and rapidly-growing corporate insurers in Australasia.

Shaun Standfield, Insurance Advisernet

The managing director of Insurance Advisernet, Shaun Standfield is a senior insurance executive with expertise gained from working for large insurance companies in Australia and Asia. He leads a large brokerage with operations in more than 260 locations across Australia and New Zealand.

In an interview with IB, Standfield shared that he takes immense pleasure from helping people grow their businesses and advisers build assets for themselves and their families.

“I see myself as a provocative leader who always pushes to change the status quo. Ultimately, I care about people, and in a business sense, I feel an enormous responsibility to ensure I protect and grow our advisers’ businesses along with opportunities for the team I lead to have personal growth opportunities. Being provocative does create uncomfortable moments at times, but we need to keep moving the business forward, and status quo isn’t the answer or an option,” he said.

Learn more about Feldmann and Standfield and the rest of this year’s winners by reading the IB Hot List 2023 report.