Simon Swanson - Managing Director

B.Ec, B.Bus, ANZIIF (Fellow), CIP, FCPA

Simon is an internationally experienced financial services executive having worked for over 30 years across life insurance, funds management, general insurance and health insurance. He has successfully led the largest life insurer (CommInsure, Sovereign and Colonial) in three countries and spent half of his career in the Asia Pacific region.

Simon was previously a director of the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation and former Chairman of ANZIIF's Life, Health and Retirement Income Faculty Advisory Board.

Simon was effectively the founder of ClearView in its current form and was appointed as Managing Director on 26 March 2010.

Athol Chiert - Chief Financial Officer

B.Com, B.Acc, CA (SA)

Athol was appointed Chief Financial Officer on 4 November 2008. Athol has a life insurance and private equity background. Athol was previously the CFO of PrefSure Holdings Limited and PrefSure Life Limited (formerly Lumley Life Limited). Athol also served as part of the Global Capital Group both in Australia and South Africa and has over 15 years’ experience in the finance industry. Athol commenced his professional career as an accountant with Arthur Andersen.

Christopher Blaxland-Walker - General Manager, Distribution 

Christopher has over 15 years' experience in financial services. He started his career at Legal and General in the call centre and worked in all areas of the company. In the last 10 years he has been involved in sales at CommInsure where he held the position of NSW State Manager before joining ClearView as the National Sales Manager in 2011.

Chris was appointed General Manager, Distribution in October 2014.

Deborah Lowe - General Manager, Wealth Management and Chief Human Resources Officer

B.Com (Eco), MBA, AGSM

Deborah joined ClearView in 2013. She has over 25 years' experience in the financial services industry, specialising in both human resources and operations management. Deborah previously held senior human resources and operational roles with Barclays Global Investors. She worked in San Francisco for Barclay Global Investors implementing a global HRIS system and went on to manage the global administration of human resources. Prior to joining ClearView, she held a variety of lending, customer service and account management roles with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Gerard Kerr - General Manager, Life Insurance

Gerard Kerr joined ClearView in February 2021 as General Manager, Life Insurance.
 
Gerard has over 35 years of international financial services experience, having worked in Ireland, UK, USA and Australia. He has a deep understanding of every facet of life insurance including product development, pricing, claims, underwriting and distribution. Accompanying his business knowledge, Gerard is an astute leader, highly skilled in building effective, engaged teams and managing periods of significant change.
 
Prior to joining ClearView Gerard held a number of senior roles at Zurich Financial Services Australia (formerly OnePath/ANZ Wealth) including Head of Retail Risk Insurance, Head of Life Insurance and most recently, Head of Propositions & Group Life. In this role he was accountable for the P&L of OnePath’s life insurance channels, setting and driving the strategic agenda and priorities, end-to-end stakeholder engagement and regulatory obligations.
 
Earlier in his career, Gerard worked at Asteron Life (now Suncorp Wealth Management) and Prudential International. 

Hicham Mourad - General Manager, Information Technology

BCS

Hicham was appointed General Manager, Information Technology on 2 March 2020.
 
Hicham has more than 20 years of Technology experience in financial services industry. Prior to joining ClearView, Hicham was Head of Platforms, Investments and Operations at Westpac where he had responsibility for the Technology of the Bank’s BT Financial Group systems. He was responsible for the technology strategy, delivering key change programs and ideas generation. 
 
Hicham is an experienced technology executive and leader. His technical and business skills were honed as a Partner at Mapleleaf Consulting and Head of Delivery at Fiserv. He also previously held a number of senior IT roles at ANZ Bank including Head of Delivery, Insurance and Private Wealth.

James Myerscough - Interim Chief Risk Officer 

B.Sc,  B.E,  D. Phil, GAICD

Joining in May 2021 as Interim Chief Risk Officer (CRO), James has extensive risk management experience in the financial services industry.
 
Previously, James was CRO for the Commonwealth Bank’s Wealth Management business. In this role he had risk-related oversight for life and general insurance, global asset management, multiple financial advice licensees and superannuation entities.
 
Other roles include Regional CRO, General Insurance, Asia Pacific at Zurich and CRO of Zurich Financial Services Australia.
 
James holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Sciences from Oxford University and is also an Adjunct Faculty member at the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Judilyn Beaumont - General Counsel and Company Secretary

B.Bus, LLB

Judilyn joined ClearView in November 2019 as General Counsel and Company Secretary.
 
Appointed a Solicitor of NSW in 2001, Judilyn has extensive legal experience in the financial services industry acquired across private practice, regulatory and in-house roles. These roles have encompassed life insurance, superannuation, financial planning and investments.
 
From 2013-2019 Judilyn worked in-house at Suncorp, commencing as Senior Lawyer (Suncorp Life) and most recently holding the position of Executive Manager Legal – Insurance and Marketplace Advisory, Finance Legal & Advice (Suncorp Group). In this role she provided end-to-end business support, from product development to marketing and distribution.
 
Earlier in her career, she was a Senior Associate at Freehills in their financial services team, a Solicitor at Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst) and earlier still, a Lawyer at the Australian Securities and Investment Commission where she provided advice on a range of matters including large regulatory investigations, development of regulatory policy and managed investment schemes.

Justin Mclaughlin - Chief Investment Officer

B.Eco (Hons)

Justin is the Chief Investment Officer of ClearView. He has 20 years' experience in the industry with a focus on asset allocation and fund manager research. He started his career with the Federal Government Super Scheme (now CSS/PSS) where he had a number of roles in researching fund managers and working in tactical and strategic asset allocation. He has held Chief Economist and Investment Strategy roles with Advance Asset Management and United Funds Management. He has worked for TOWER (now TAL) and was Head of Research at Bridges a financial planning and stockbroking company for 8 years prior to joining ClearView.

Nadine Gooderick - General Manager, Transformation

BA (Comm)

Nadine was appointed General Manager, Transformation in October 2020.
Nadine is a proven life insurance leader with extensive experience managing international programs and leading large diverse teams across different functions and markets.

Prior to joining ClearView, Nadine spent almost 25 years at RGA including the last eight years as Chief Operating Officer for Australia and New Zealand from 2011 to 2019. In that role, she had responsibility for the key functions of underwriting, medical and technical services, claims and operations as well as project management. Prior to that she was Vice President, Asia Pacific Regional Office.

At RGA, Nadine’s career highlights include the start-up of several of RGA’s International Offices as part of their global expansion into Asia and Europe and more recently the delivery of a substantial, multi-year transformation program for the management of disability income and TPD insurance claims; and the delivery of an end-to-end group administration system over two years.

Todd Kardash - General Manager, Licensee Services

Todd has over 28 years’ experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining ClearView, Todd was Head of Adviser Distribution at CommInsure. From 2001 to 2005, he was the State Manager for the NAB Insurance dealer group in NSW. Todd started in the industry as an adviser with National Mutual in 1989 where he built up the business to over 800 clients over a period of five and a half years before selling the practice to move into management with National Mutual (rebranded to AXA Asia Pacific in 1999).
 
Todd joined ClearView Wealth in April 2011 to set up the Life and Wealth Distribution team and in October 2014 was appointed CEO of ClearView Financial Advice and Matrix Planning Solutions dealer groups.