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ASIM MOHAMMED Telephone: Mobile (679) 972-5476; Home (679) 332-4033
P. O. Box 13202, Suva, Fiji Email: asim.m58@outlook.com
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PROFILE
Insurance Professional with 38 years’ experience in insurance industry, including 35 years with the
world’s largest (UK and USA Based) Multinational Insurance Brokers, in the disciplines of: Risk
Management; Assurance & Insurance; Disaster Reduction; Disaster Risk, Finance and Insurance; Business
Resiliency; Contract Management; Regulatory and Compliance; and Corporate Management.
SUMMARY
 Worked effectively with the world’s largest (UK and USA Based) Multinational Insurance
Brokers, placing a significant number of Fiji’s largest corporate companies, and some of the
Pacific Islands’, insurances in Fiji, the Pacific, and the International Insurance Markets.
 Extensive experience with the local and international insurers in program placement, and
claims settlements.
 Broad knowledge of risks affecting businesses including risk management and technical
insurance aspects.
 In-depth knowledge of legislation affecting insurance.
 Understanding private and public corporate business objective, culture, risk appetite, risk
retention, risk transfer, risk financing, in protecting the Bottom-line
 Demonstrated ability to design, implement and train colleagues on professional standards of
efficient service
 Proven ability to design, implement and train colleagues on quality control
 Acquired new objectives in client introduction, business development, expansion and retention
 Demonstrated ability to interpret and understand clients’ business risks accurately
 Risk Management, risk presentation and quality control objectives
 Maximized profitability – company and client on risk based matters.
 Demonstrated ability to lead from the front and turn ideas into reality
 Team leader applying skill, motivation and teamwork
 Exceptional Lateral Thinking ability
CAREER HISTORY/PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Marsh Fiji Limited (May 2011 – March 2015)
Manager Technical Services and Compliance Officer
Key Responsibilities:
1. Client Facing Executive
2. Manager Technical Insurance Services
3. Compliance Officer -USA & Australia, and Fiji requirements
4. Staff – Client Insurance Lifecycle Peer Reviews and Professional Standards
5. Audits

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Additional Responsibilities:
i. Staff Training Manager – including staff induction programs of Marsh & McLennan
Companies – Global Codes of Ethics, Conduct and Practice, Insurance Product
Knowledge and any other Marsh or general Insurance matters
ii. Executive Committee – Consists of Marsh hierarchy directing business culture,
problem solving.
iii. Occupational Health and Safety –Employer Representative on the OH&S Committee
to ensure compliance with Fiji Health and Safety At Work Act 1996
iv. Business Resiliency Team – identify, evaluate, program and execute Business
Resiliency following Man-made or Natural Catastrophe risks – MMC Global
requirements.
Marsh Fiji Limited (January 2007 – April 2011)
Manager Business Development
Key Responsibilities:
New Business Development for Marsh in Fiji. A newly created position for Marsh
Negev Limited – Self-employed December (2005 – December 2006)
Director
Key Responsibilities:
Consulted for Marsh Fiji since March 2006 until December 2006 (before becoming full-time employee) in
the areas of; Client Retention, Fiji Market Policy Wordings Project, and New Business.
Aon Risk Services (Fiji) Limited, Suva, Fiji. (1994 – December 2005)
Director/General Manager/Company Secretary
Co-founded with the Regional Director South Pacific, the Insurance Broking & Risk Management brand
name of Bain Hogg (Fiji) Limited (an Inchcape (UK) Company) which two years later, following an
acquisition, became Aon Risk Services (Fiji) Limited.
This Business was started from a Blank Sheet of Paper in 1994 to become a major player in Fiji and the
South Pacific.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Responsible (jointly with Aon’s Regional Director South Pacific) for the overall operations of our
group’s Insurance Broking/Risk Consulting Services in Fiji, and support services to the South
Pacific operation.
2. Risk Analyzing/Risk Management/Risk Transfer (Insurance or otherwise), Claims Settlement and
Servicing Personal, Commercial and Industrial Clientele.
3. Business Development, Management and Control of Aon offices in Suva and Nadi, Fiji, with staff
strength of 22.
4. Work involved the Pacific Islands of Fiji, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, Cook Islands,
Nauru, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.

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Sedgwick (Fiji) Limited, Suva, Fiji. (1985 - 1994)
Associate Director (Aug- 94/91), Assistant Director (Jan-1991/1988), Account Executive (Jan- 1988/1985)
C. T. Bowring & Burgess (Pacific) Limited (1980 - 1985)
Insurance Broker (All classes)
Statement of Specialized involvement and achievements over the years:
1. The implementation of a Material Damage/Business Interruption Insurance “Core” Wording for
Fiji/United Kingdom placements.
2. The creation and implementation of specialist Sabotage & Terrorism and Political Violence
(Material Damage/Business Interruption, Legal Liability and Loss of Attraction) Insurance Policy
wordings for Fijian risks in the Lloyds and UK Company insurance markets.
3. Placement of Insurance Risks in the International Insurance Markets (United Kingdom,
Continental Europe, United States of America, Australia and New Zealand).
4. The placement of unique Contract Works and Liability including Operational and Business Risks
insurance in the various Industry fields, including: Sugar, Fertilizer, Fish, Meat (Chicken/Beef),
Wheat and Rice, Soft Drinks (Coca-Cola), Garment, Hotel/Resorts, Milk, Waste to Energy Plant,
Hydro Electricity Generation, Mechanical Engineering Plants, Civil Engineering, Land
Development, Drainage and Irrigation, Foreshore Reclamation, Wharves and Jetties, Large
Housing Schemes, Warehouses / Hangers, Airport Runways / Aprons / Concourse, Commercial /
Office Complexes, Sawmills, Timber Mills, and Woodchip Mill, etc.
5. The placement of Aviation Hull and Aviation Liability (Fixed and Rotor Wing Aircrafts), Airport
Owners / Operators Liability, etc.
6. The placement of Marine Cargo; Marine Hull; Marine Legal Liability insurances.
7. The placement of Public and Products Liability, Products Guarantee, Directors and Officers
Liability and Company Reimbursement, Bankers Blanket Indemnity, Professional indemnity,
Bonds and Guarantee Risks.
8. The implementation of Broker/Underwriter clauses for the Fiji Market on all classes of insurance
of a day to day nature and some unique types such as Computer and Employee Benefits.
9. Authorization of Policy classes and wordings for their implementation and operational broker
procedures using in-house computer systems.
10. Responsible for claims recoveries from Insurers for clients following Accidental, Man-Made,
Natural Catastrophes, and Political Events.
11. Jointly responsible for recruiting, training and control of staff.
12. Presentation of Conceptual Reports during Governments Privatization Schemes and to
Commercial Prospects on Broking, Insurance, Risk Management, Risk Financing and during
operational phases.
13. Preparation of Client Risk Survey and Underwriting Reports – Fiji and the South Pacific.
14. Audit of major clients’ portfolio in accordance with Professional Account Management (PAM)
Techniques and Practices.
15. Creation of Client Screening Template under the FTR Act 2004.
16. Creation of Client / Broker / Local & Offshore Insurer / RBF – Exemption and Offshore Approval
template.
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18. Parametric Insurance (Climate Change/Global Warming) risk financing concept for the
Government of Fiji on Excessive Rainfall / Flood – under consideration by the GoF.
19. 1999 – Chairperson of the Fiji Parliamentary Emoluments Commission – appointed by the
President of the Republic of the Fiji Islands – His Excellency, Ratu Sir K.K.T. Mara (under the
1997 Constitution of Fiji – Abrogated after the May 2000 Coup).
20. Business - Annual Report (Company Secretary) Profitability (GM) Future Direction (Director)
capability and proven record.
Insurance Industry Involvement:
Chairperson: The Insurance Brokers Association of Fiji.
Achievement: 2013 created the Broker Code of Practice, approved by the Reserve Bank of Fiji.
Committee Member: 2013-2014 Insurance Task Force of the Reserve Bank of Fiji in the review of the
Insurance Act 1998.
Achievement: Review of the Insurance Act 1998, submitted to the RBF.
Education
The Insurance Institute of New Zealand 1986
Successfully completed Eleven (11) of the Twelve (12) syllabuses of The Insurance Institute
of New Zealand (Inc.) Examinations. Unable to sit final paper due to the 2nd military coup in
1987.
Insurance Institute – CII College of Insurance, Kent, United Kingdom. 1983
 General Insurance and Management course at the Chartered Insurance Institute - CII
College of Insurance, in Kent, United Kingdom.
 Insurance courses and attachment with C.T. Bowring Reinsurance Limited, London.
 Observation and knowledge up skill at Lloyds of London.
 Career Development Programs with former companies in the UK, Australia and New
Zealand.
Insurance, Risk Management, General Management Associations
FCIBNZ - Fellow of the Corporation of Insurance Brokers of New Zealand
MRMIA - Member of the Australasian Institute of Risk Management
AIMM – Member of the Australian Institute of Management.
Past lectures and papers presented:
1. Fiji National Training Council (Previously FNTC, thence TPAF, now - FNU) on:
 General Insurance - Foundation Course for the Insurance Institute of Fiji – 1990.
 Aspects of Construction Projects – for Principals, Consultants, Contractors, Sub-contractors,
Financiers, and Legislators, on behalf of the Housing Authority of Fiji – 1991.

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2. Professional Seminars:
 2.1. Risk Management - Fiji Hotel Association – Warwick Hotel, 2002.
 2.2. Business Interruption Insurance – Technical Workshop – CPA Australia, and Fiji Institute of
Accountants - Warwick Hotel – 2002.
 2.3. Marine Insurance – Fiji Exporters Association – Reserve Bank of Fiji – 2004.
 2.4. Business Interruption Insurance - Fiji Institute of Accountants – in conjunction with
McLarens Young International Freemans of Melbourne, VIC, Australia @ the Reserve Bank of Fiji
– 2009.
 2.5. Business Interruption Insurance – Students @ Fiji National University, Suva, 2010.
3. Major Clients:
 3.1. Natural Waters of Viti Limited (Fiji Water) – Material Damage / Business Interruption
Insurance – 2011.
 3.2. Punja and Sons Limited (Food Manufacturer) – Material Damage / Business Interruption
Insurance – 2011.
 3.3. South Pacific Fertilisers Limited – Material Damage / Business Interruption – 2011.
4. Marsh in-house –Management and Staff
 Suva and Lautoka – Political Violence – Terrorism Insurance – 2008.
 Suva and Lautoka – Material Damage / Business Interruption Insurance - 2010 / 2011.
 Suva and Lautoka – Audit and Compliance – 2011, and continuing.
 Suva and Lautoka - Staff Training – Technical Product Knowledge.
 Suva and Lautoka - Legislation affecting the conduct of Business and Insurance.
5. Government of Fiji – Catastrophe Risk Assessment / Risk Transfer/ Risk Financing and Insurance
modelled
Risk concept, risk transfer, risk financing developed (Excessive Rainfall – Flood) for the Fiji Government –
(Public/Private Partnership). This is a Climate Change / Global Warming – risk financing mechanism.
National Duty 1999
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Emoluments Committee, appointed by His Excellency The
President of Fiji – Ratu Sir Kamisese Kapaiwai Tuimacilai Mara (Rt. Sir KKT Mara). Being a
Parliamentary appointment under the 1997 Constitution of Fiji, it was abrogated following the May
2000 Coup.
Languages
English, Hindi, Fijian

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ASIM MOHAMMED Telephone: Mobile (679) 972-5476; Home (679) 332-4033
P. O. Box 13202, Suva, Fiji Email: asim.m58@outlook.com
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Mr. Barry Whiteside
Governor
Reserve Bank of Fiji
Telephone: (679) 331-3611
Email: barry@rbf.gov.fj
Dr. Nur Bano Ali
Managing Partner
Aliz Pacific
Chartered Accountants & Business Advisers
Telephone: (679) 331-4044
Anisa Tuberi
Executive Secretary to the Executive Chairman
Fiji Sugar Corporation Limited
Telephone: (679) 666-2655
Email: anisat@fsc.com.fj