Angelo Maniatis
Vice President, Risk Engineering Casualty & Professional & Financial Risks, Asia Pacific
Department
Casualty
Main Role
Angelo is the head of Casualty in Asia. Based in Melbourne, he leads our liability teams in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and China.
Personal Profile
Angelo joined Liberty in 2009 in Melbourne as the head of Casualty Risk Engineering across Asia Pacific, before relocating to Perth where he added the role of Branch Manager of Western Australia to his responsibilities. Angelo has dealt with clients across construction, manufacturing, oil & gas, chemical plants, rail transport and infrastructure.
He holds Civil Engineering qualifications from RMIT, and a Graduate Diploma in Business Management.
David Collins
Principal Risk Engineer, Casualty
Department
Casualty
Main Role
David joined Liberty in 2009 and works with Liberty staff in Australia and Asia, providing technical support to Casualty underwriters and claims staff.
David’s main focus is on General and Products Liability. He conducts site visits and desk reviews for clients across a range of industries including construction, manufacturing, retail, chemical, transport and infrastructure.
Personal Profile
David has experience in both First Party and Casualty Loss Control. Before joining Liberty he worked in the Construction Materials Industry and ran his own risk management consulting firm. David has Civil Engineering Qualifications and a Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety.
David Wang
Senior Risk Engineer, Energy Property & Construction
Department
Risk Engineering - Energy, Property & Construction
Main Role
David provides risk engineering support to the Energy, Property and Construction underwriting and claims teams by performing analysis and evaluation of risks.
Personal Profile
David joined Liberty in 2023, bringing with him 20 years of experience managing insureds' accounts. He began his career in 1998 conducting energy audits of buildings, then moved into property and liability insurance surveys.
David holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of NSW, Sydney.
John Stabelos
Senior Manager, Risk Engineering, Casualty
Department
Casualty
Main Role
John is responsible for risk analysis across Liberty's broad Casualty portfolio. His daily engagement includes working closely with our underwriting and claims professionals to enable them to have a deeper technical understanding of our clients' business needs. By providing these risk engineering insights, our underwriters are empowered to tailor suitable value add risk solutions and coverages, no matter how diverse and complex the risk.
Personal Profile
As a risk engineering professional with over 30 years' experience across Asia Pacific, John has the ability to analyse risk and provides viable solutions to minimise the potential of loss. His technical understanding across a wide spectrum of industrial, manufacturing and commercial occupancies enables him to recognise areas of potential risk and their resultant consequences.
His skill set and experience not only includes assessment of casualty related coverages, but also encompasses the risk know-how of complex property and associated business interruption exposures.
John holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Insurance.
Luis Gonzalez
Senior Risk Engineer, Crisis Management
Department
Crisis Management
Main role
Luis works side by side with underwriters providing technical support, allowing him to have a thorough understanding of our clients’ business and their insurance needs.
Personal profile
Luis has expertise in a broad range of industries, from automotive to pharma, allows him to have a better understanding of our clients’ business and the ability to underwrite a wide variety of risks.
Mehdi Hassani
Assistant Vice President and Manager of Australian EPC Risk Engineering
Department
Energy, Property & Construction
Main Role
Based in Sydney, Mehdi works across the Asia Pacific region conducting site surveys and assessing risk in oil and gas production; refining; power generation; mining and construction projects. His key priorities are in providing regional direction with technical support to Liberty's underwriters as well as providing risk control consultation to brokers and clients.
Personal Profile
Mehdi holds an Honours degree in Chemical Engineering. He has worked in various risk management roles since 2009 and has been trained as a fire protection engineer and chemical risk surveyor in the United States and Germany respectively. He has worked internationally and provided consultation in the specific areas of fire, machinery breakdown and natural hazard perils to a variety of different sectors, with special focus on the petrochemicals industry.
Mehdi is a member of the Institution of Engineers Australia, and a Chartered Professional Engineer (Australia), including registration under Queensland legislation (RPEQ). Mehdi is also an associate member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers in the specialist field of Process Safety.
Phillip Nah
Senior Risk Engineer, Energy, Property & Construction
Department
Energy, Property & Construction
Main role
Based in Melbourne, Phillip provides guidance to Liberty's Energy, Property and Construction underwriters on technical aspects of risk selection in the Australasian region, as well as providing risk control expertise to brokers and clients. Working closely with Liberty's global team of risk engineers and claims professionals, Phillip specialises in Highly Protected Risk and high-challenge risk engineering.
Personal profile
Phillip started his career in the building services industry, having graduated with Honours in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Melbourne. He later progressed into the technical evaluation of risk, providing risk engineering services to global property insurers. Over the years, Phillip has participated in fire protection and natural hazards training programmes both in Australia and abroad, with a focused progression as a global flood and earthquake hazard specialist.
Having provided risk engineering services to the insurance industry for over a decade, Phillip brings extensive knowledge and experience to our team.
Raymond Hui
Senior Risk Engineer, Construction
Department
Energy, Property & Construction
Main Role
Based in Sydney, Raymond focuses on civil construction project risk assessments and surveys in support of Underwriting and Claims Teams across Australia and Asia.
Personal Profile
Raymond joined Liberty in 2023, bringing with him over 20 years of experience in the civil construction industry.
Having graduated with Honours in Civil Engineering and a Masters in Engineering Science from the University of New South Wales, Raymond started his career as a Geotechnical Engineer. He progressed to work for international multi-disciplinary design consultants participating in a wide range of large infrastructure projects, followed by joining a global insurer as a risk engineer providing services for construction, natural hazards and climate change lines of business.
Tim Bugg
Assistant Vice President, Risk Engineering, Professional & Financial Risks
Department
Professional & Financial Risks
Main role
Tim supports Liberty’s underwriters, brokers and clients to understand the key technical, delivery and Professional Indemnity risks associated with engineering and construction projects.
Personal profile
Tim is an experienced engineer and project and design manager who has worked across a diverse array of industries, including agriculture, mining, water, oil and gas, desalination, power generation, manufacturing and construction. He has spent more than 20 years in the engineering and construction sector alone.
Tim holds a Masters in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical). He is a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) with Engineers Australia and a Registered Professional Engineer in Queensland (RPEQ).