Heavy Industries

Department

Energy, Property & Construction

Main Role

Brett is responsible for the underwriting and management of the Energy, Property, Construction and Terrorism products across Asia Pacific.

Personal Profile

Brett started his insurance career in 1997 with an international reinsurer, before moving into a role as a direct insurance broker where he worked on some of Australia's largest energy and mining companies at that time.

He joined Liberty in 2002 and since then has worked in our Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore offices. His principal experience resides in the oil and gas industry as well as the power generation segment, where he has had major involvement in writing policies for a large number of the regions refining, petrochemical and LNG producers, as well as writing many of Asia Pacific's major power producers over many years.

Brett has a Bachelor of Economics from the University of New England.

Department

Energy, Property & Construction

Main Role

As Risk Engineer within Liberty’s Energy and Construction Division, Imran works with Liberty staff in Singapore, providing technical support for underwriting and claims for first party lines of businesses across Asia.

Part of this involves site surveys of commercial and industrial properties, as well as construction projects.  The properties or projects can involve office buildings, hotels, as well as various kinds of manufacturing facilities within Asia.

Personal Profile

Prior to joining Liberty, Imran spent 10 years as a risk engineer in FM Global, and 5 years in the construction industry in Singapore.

Department

Civil Construction

Main Role

Steve focuses on Civil Project risk assessment and surveys in support of underwriters across Asia and Australia. He is also involved in supporting the global Civil product line team in London.

Personal Profile

Steve joined Liberty in July 2008 with a mandate to formulate and execute a strategy for the global roll-out of Civil Construction as a new product line within Liberty.  Prior to this, Steve spent just under 20 years at Swiss Reinsurance, finishing there as Head of Engineering, Asia. During that tenure, he was primarily involved in the insurance of major construction projects worldwide working in South African, London, Zurich and Australian markets.  Before his time in reinsurance, Steve spent 10 years in a variety of site-related construction activities including bridge, mining and structural erection projects.

Steve comes from a Civil Engineering background and has a Bachelor of Commerce. He is an Associate of the Insurance Institute and a Fellow of the Risk Management Institute of South Africa.

Department

Energy, Property & Construction

Main Role

Yeong Sheng joined Liberty in 2003 and heads up the Risk Engineering Division responsible for all risk management activities in Asia, supporting underwriting and claims as part of the Energy, Property & Construction Division.

Personal Profile

Yeong Sheng has done extensive risk management work in Asia, including site surveys, in-house risk assessment and risk engineering/loss prevention consultancy, across industries ranging from oil, gas and petrochemicals to manufacturing, logistics, and IT.

A graduate chemical engineer, he has 10 years experience in risk engineering for the insurance industry.

Yeong Sheng’s non-insurance experience includes 7 years in the petrochemical industry in Singapore working on process engineering, operations, Greenfield project turnover and start-up.

Department

Claims

Main Role

Mei Foong is based in Malaysia and handles First Party claims in Asia and Australian property claims.

Personal Profile

Mei Fong joined Liberty in 2019 with 7 years' experience in the insurance industry having worked as a broker at a local firm. Starting her career at a life insurance company, she later moved to an insurance broking role as she transitioned into General Insurance.

Mei Foong holds a Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science.

Department

Claims

Main role

Nathan leads the First Party Claims team for Asia Pacific, encompassing Liberty's Marine, Energy, Property, Construction and Terrorism products.  He is responsible for the delivery of a responsive, technically sound and commercially pragmatic Claims service across these product lines.

Personal profile

Nathan joined Liberty in 2008.  He has managed Liberty's Asia Pacific Workers Compensation claims portfolio, the Australian Claims team across all products and the Asia Pacific First Party Claims team.

Nathan also served as Chief Legal Counsel for Asia Pacific from 2016 before returning to First Party Claims in late 2018.

Prior to joining Liberty, Nathan worked in both private practice and in-house Legal roles.  He has extensive experience in litigation, product development, wording review and in the management of highly complex claims across all of Liberty's product lines.

Department

Claims

Main Role

Nelfi is based in Malaysia and provides support to the First Party claims team in Asia Pacific.

Personal Profile

Nelfi joined Liberty in 2022 with legal and insurance industry experience, managing claims.  Nelfi focuses on First Party Energy, Property, Construction and Marine claims.

Nelfi holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) (Honours) degree.

Department

Claims

Main Role

Yvonne is based in the Malaysia office and provides claim support for the First Party claims team in Asia Pacific.

Personal Profile

Yvonne joined Liberty in 2019 and has been in the insurance industry since 2014 including her time working with an insurance broker.

She holds a Bachelor of Business & Commerce and is currently working towards an Associateship of the Malaysian Insurance Institute (AMII).