Skip To Main Content

AIG Insurance New Zealand Limited

Board Members

CEO Australia and Head of Pacific, AIG

Graduate Diploma in Insurance (GDIPIns)

Grant Cairns was appointed as an Executive Director of AIG Insurance New Zealand Limited in March 2024. He is currently CEO, Australia and Head of Pacific at AIG. Grant has more than 22 years’ insurance experience in multiple product lines across diverse geographies, including the UK, Europe, Africa, and Asia Pacific.

Grant joined AIG in October 2023 after almost 20 years in senior leadership and Financial Lines positions with Chubb, most recently Head of Property and Casualty, Asia Pacific. He joined the insurance industry in 2001 as an Account Manager at Willis Australia Limited.

BCom, MBA, GAIDC, CMinstD

Mary-Jane (‘MJ’) Daly was appointed as a director of AIG Insurance New Zealand Limited on 1 July 2022 and is Chair of the Board. MJ has a strong background in insurance and financial services in a variety of roles both in New Zealand and the UK. She is also an Independent Director of Fonterra Shareholders Fund, Kiwibank Limited and Kiwi Property Group Limited. MJ is the former Chair of the Earthquake Commission as has previously held governance roles at Auckland Transport, Cigna Life Insurance, Onepath Life and Airways Corporation. MJ has also held senior executive positions at State Insurance, IAG, and Fonterra.

LLB / B.Com, CMInstD

Angela Dixon was appointed as a director of AIG Insurance New Zealand Limited on 5 April 2023 and is Chair of the Risk Committee.  Angela has a strong background in insurance and financial services in a variety of roles both in New Zealand and the UK. She is currently an Independent Director of both Centrix Group and Unimed medical insurance, and is a trustee of the Auckland Softball Foundation Trust.  Angela has held senior finance and executive positions at RSA UK, IAG, Public Trust and Synlait Milk Limited.  Angela is a current member of Chartered Accountants Australia and NZ and Chartered member of NZ Institute of Directors.

CFO Australia & New Zealand - AIG Australia Limited

Tibor Nagy commenced as an Executive Director of AIG Insurance New Zealand Limited in July 2020. Tibor is currently the CFO of AIG New Zealand and Australia. His extensive 25+ years’ experience with AIG spans numerous senior finance, accounting and leadership roles across many countries, including the USA, UK, India, France, Romania, Poland, and his native Hungary, as well as Australia and New Zealand.

Tibor graduated as an Economist from the Budapest Business School and is a Chartered Accountant under IFRS and Hungarian GAAP.

General Manager, AIG New Zealand

ANZIIF (Senior Assoc.), Diploma in Insurance (DIP CII)

Liam Pomfret commenced as an Executive Director of AIG Insurance New Zealand Limited in March 2024. Liam is currently GM of AIG New Zealand.

Liam has extensive insurance experience with more than 25 years working in underwriting and broking roles across multiple countries, including Asia Pacific Head of Professional Indemnity & Cyber, Financial Lines for AIG and senior Financial Lines roles with Aon New Zealand and Marsh New Zealand.

B.Com

Mike Schubert was appointed as an independent director of AIG Insurance New Zealand Limited on 1 August 2022. Mike chairs the Board Audit Committee. He has an extensive history working in governance and executive roles across professional services, health, primary industries, and technology sectors. He was CEO of law firm MinterEllisonRuddWatts from 2016 to 2018 and a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers for the 28 years prior. Mike is currently Deputy Chair and director at TSB and director and Audit Committee Chair of Silver Fern Farms Limited, director and Audit Committee Chair of ProCare and Homecare Medical (Healthline), and chair of technology company MiMoMax Wireless Limited.