Dear Broker

I would like to update you on a senior management change in Aviva Insurance Ireland DAC (Aviva).

Sean Boyle our Head of GI Sales Intermediary and Partners has decided to leave Aviva at the end of January 2021.  

 

Sean has been with Aviva, including Hibernian Insurance, for over 40 years and has spent most of his career supporting GI brokers and managing broker facing teams. He started his career in Hibernian’s South Mall office before moving to Kilkenny, Tralee and to Clonmel as Branch Manager. He then managed our Limerick branch prior to moving back to Cork where he led the integration of Hibernian, General Accident and Norwich Union and established Aviva’s National Broker Centre in the Cork Airport Business Park. 

 

When our business was rebranded Aviva and restructured into a composite group, Sean became Head of Strategic Change for Aviva Ireland. 

 

In 2012 he transferred to Head of Sales and Trading based in Cork and in this role developed close working relationships with many brokers across the country. In 2019 Sean took on his current expanded role as National Head of Sales Intermediary and Partners for General Insurance. 

 

In the short time I’ve known Sean, I have quickly come to appreciate the depth of his knowledge of our GI business and the quality of his relationships with our brokers and partners across the country. Sean has successfully carried out a variety of roles in Aviva, going where the business needed his expertise, serving brokers in locations across Ireland. The impact Sean has made over his 40-year career in our business has been significant. Leading with integrity, always willing to meet the needs of the business and our brokers, is a legacy he should be proud of. 

 

Whilst we respect Sean’s decision to leave, he will be sorely missed by the business, his colleagues and brokers, many of whom have become life-long friends.  

 

We have already engaged in the process to replace his role and all going well, we will announce a replacement shortly. 

 

Please join me in wishing Sean, his wife Jackie and his family every good wish for the future. 

 

Kind regards

 

Declan O'Rourke
Interim CEO

Aviva Insurance Ireland DAC