New Zealand Member Advisory Board

Kai is a highly experienced global insurance leader who started his career at Lloyds of London and has since then accumulated more than 35 years of experience working in Australasia, Asia, North America, the Middle East and Switzerland.

He has a deep passion for the risk and insurance sector and a desire to change society's perception of the industry by transforming the overall insurance journey and greatly improving the value of protection offered to insurance buyers.

Prior to co-founding Vallum Kai, he spent almost 10 years as an Executive at Zurich Australia where he built its successful Global Corporate business and most recently held the role of General Manager for New Zealand.

He is a former Board Member of the Insurance Council of New Zealand and sits on ANZIIF's New Zealand Management Advisory Board as well as its Risk Management Faculty Advisory Board. He is also a founding member of Insurtech New Zealand.

Isaac is part of FMG’s People & Culture team. In his role he leads FMG’s learning team and is responsible for capability development. He has spent 20 years in workplace learning and the last five and a half at FMG. He is passionate about the impact that good insurance learning has on individual and organisational performance. Isaac holds an understanding of the skills, knowledge and experience required to deliver fair client experiences and how to develop these most effectively. 

In his time at FMG, he has been directly involved in the preparation required to ensure their general insurance representatives meet the code of professional conduct and well as managing the relationship with ANZIIF for FMG’s learners. He loves the complexity and importance that the insurance industry has to New Zealanders and the economy. 

Scott is the Senior Corporate Counsel and Risk Manager for Sedgwick New Zealand. During his twenty-two year tenure, Scott has held various roles, including operational, HR, legal and Catastrophe response leadership roles. He has also specialised in the provision of governance around people strategy, health and safety, legal compliance, and business risk.

Scott has facilitated training on insurance industry specific requirements including the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and other relevant legislation.

Prior to joining Sedgwick, Scott practiced as a litigation solicitor for three years, holds a current practicing certificate and is a current member of ILANZ and ANZIIF.

In his personal time, Scott is an avid mountain biking enthusiast, ocean swimmer and is forever chasing his three little kids around (currently all under 12).

Nykkie is an Organisational Development, Talent and Learning specialist with over 20 years’ experience in human resources management, leadership development, learning, culture, talent management and adult education.

As an accredited coach, Nykkie is passionate about helping people and organisations to thrive. She has worked extensively with a wide range of leadership teams to help them deepen their connection, define and refine strategy, and build great cultures.

Nykkie’s background is diverse, from operational management roles to HR, L&D and OD in hospitality, tourism, FMCG, fintech and insurance. She has served on a number of advisory boards and panels across these industries, including significant experience in qualification and assessment design with NZQA.

Nykkie has a post-graduate qualification in Human Potential for the Digital Economy, which perfectly blends her fascination with equipping humans to be the best that they can be, equipped to thrive in the future of work, and better understanding the fast-changing, complex, uncertain world that we live in.

Nykkie is accredited to administer, interpret and train a wide range of tools such as Genos Emotional Intelligence, HBDI, MBTI, The Coaching Clinic, Genesys psychometric assessments, Human Centered Design, and Lego Serious Play.

She is a mum to an adorable and high-energy 9-year old, wife, daughter, sister, friend and confidant. Nykkie loves to explore new places and ideas, cook and eat/drink delicious food and wine, and get out into the beautiful outdoors we are so lucky to have in New Zealand.

Caroline is a Partner at Wotton + Kearney and has 25 years’ experience in handling contentious insurance issues, with a focus on complex claims. She regularly provides coverage advice on material damage/business interruption policies and on D&O and financial institution claims, including class action litigation. 

Caroline has worked in New Zealand and the United Kingdom on matters involving litigation up to Supreme Court level.  Caroline has been recognised for the calibre of her work including being listed in The Legal 500 and Chambers rankings and being named by NZ Lawyer and Insurance Business NZ as a 5-Star Award winner. 

Outside of her core responsibilities, Caroline is a Trustee of the Auckland Community Law Centre, and a Director on the Board of Justitia - a society which has provided risk management and professional indemnity insurance solutions to legal practitioners since 1985.

Martin started his insurance career in South Africa. He worked as a property underwriter specialising in mining and petrochemical. He then moved into reinsurance writing both facultative treaty and retrocession accounts.

In 1988 he emigrated to New Zealand and once again was a reinsurance buyer, which he did until 1996 when he moved to Australia to be the Technical and Reinsurance Manager for AMP General and then Allianz Australia.

Moving back to New Zealand in 2004 he held the roles of Technical and Reinsurance Manger of QBE and was one of the founding shareholders of DUAL New Zealand where the held the role of Chief Operating Officer and the Underwriting Director.

Since 2018 Martin has been at NZI and is now the National Manager Liability. During his career Martin has been a speaker at various ANZIIF conferences, Reinsurance Rendezvous in Australia been an expert witness in both mediations and the High Court and appeared as an expert in a number of reinsurance arbitrations.