Charles Gow-Gates

Experience

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  Gow-Gates Insurance Brokers

  Jul 2002 - Feb 2007

  Account Broker
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  DibbsBarker

  Jul 2007 - Jul 2008

  Lawyer

  DibbsBarker was a national law firm. In 2018, it merged with Dentons.

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  DAC Beachcroft LLP

  Oct 2008 - Oct 2011

  Lawyer

  DAC Beachcroft is an international law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It has around 1,400 lawyers across the UK, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and North America.

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  QBE European Operations

  Aug 2010 - Apr 2011

  Secondee

  Seconded to the Professional & Financial Lines team at QBE European Operations as in-house legal counsel from August 2010 to April 2011.

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  Gow-Gates Group

  Nov 2011 - Apr 2019

  Gow-Gates Mutual Management, a subsidiary of Gow-Gates Group, provides a full outsourced management service to Discretionary Mutual Funds, including initial feasibility review, design and incorporation, corporate governance services, coordination of service providers (actuaries, lawyers, investment managers, auditors), operational management and claims services. Gow-Gates Insurance Brokers was founded by Anthony Gow-Gates in 1963. It specialises in helping businesses and individuals mitigate and transfer risk. It has grown to be one of the largest privately owned Australian Insurance Brokers and Financial Service Providers. The Risk Solutions Team focused on providing strategic advice, usually at the program design or restructure stage. The team covered a broad range of industries, thrived in hard-to-place risks and worked closely with other specialist Gow-Gates teams.

  • Director, Gow-Gates Mutual Management

    Sept 2017 - Apr 2019

  • Managing Director

    Aug 2014 - Sept 2017

  • Manager, Risk Solutions

    Nov 2011 - Aug 2014
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  National Insurance Brokers Association (NIBA)

  May 2013 - Jan 2018

  National Insurance Brokers Association (NIBA) is the peak body of the insurance broking professionals in Australia and represents around 360 member firms. In total NIBA represents an estimated 90% of all insurance brokers in Australia. The NSW Divisional Committee represents the interests of insurance brokers to Governments, Regulators, media, consumer groups and the community. It sets and promotes quality standards for insurance broking in Australia and promotes the professionalism and standing of brokers.

  • Chairman, NSW Divisional Committee

    Dec 2015 - Jan 2018

  • Vice Chairman, NSW Divisional Committee

    May 2013 - Dec 2015
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  AFTA - Australian Federation of Travel Agents

  Jun 2017 - May 2022

  Director, AFTA Insolvency Chargeback Scheme Ltd (AICS)

  The Australian Federation of Travel Agents (AFTA) is the peak body for Australia’s travel agents. It was founded in 1957. AFTA Insolvency Chargeback Scheme Ltd (ACS) was a Discretionary Mutual Fund, which provided protection to travel agent members against credit card chargeback risk. The fund was wound up as a result of Covid-19, domestic travel restrictions and the international travel ban.

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  Employsure Mutual

  Nov 2018 - Apr 2023

  Company Secretary

  Employsure Mutual Limited is a member owned discretionary mutual fund available exclusively to Employsure clients. Employsure has been building workplace confidence for SME’s in Australia and New Zealand since 2011 as the largest provider of employment relations and health and safety advice and consultancy services.

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  Artful Risk

  Apr 2019 - now

  Director

  Artful Risk is dedicated to providing smarter alternatives to risk management with Alternative Risk Transfer. They build and manage structures and strategies designed to deliver long-term, sustainable benefits to clients, such as Discretionary Mutual Funds, Captive Insurance and Self Insurance Vehicles.

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  Barrack Broking

  Oct 2019 - now

  Barrack Broking is a leading group of risk consultants and insurance brokers, with offices in Sydney, Brisbane and Sunshine Coast. We give our clients a greater understanding of their business risks and, through our risk consulting and insurance broking, give them the tools to manage risk and pursue their business goals.

  • Managing Director

    Jun 2023 - now

  • Director

    Oct 2019 - Jun 2023
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  Broker Co-op

  Aug 2021 - now

  Founding Director

  Independent Broker Co-operative Limited ("Broker Co-op") is Australia's leading network for independent insurance brokers. Our members are independent, family-owned businesses that are embedded within local communities across Australia, giving back and supporting local businesses wherever possible.