CEO
CHU
Bobby Lehane became CEO of CHU Underwriting Agencies, a subsidiary of Steadfast Group, in 2015 after spending seven years at Zurich, including serving as executive general manager of its SME segment and its billion-dollar commercial insurance segment. At the time of Lehane’s appointment to CEO, Steadfast managing director and CEO Robert Kelly described him as having “an impressive track record of building high-performance teams, leading transformation and change, leveraging technology, and delivering results”.
Under Lehane’s leadership, CHU has been named the top strata insurance agency by brokers in the Insurance Business Brokers on Underwriting Agencies survey since the strata category was introduced in 2016.
Lehane has also placed considerable emphasis on diversity during his tenure at CHU. “Diversity and inclusion aren’t just ‘nice to haves’ – they are critical to everything we are and do,” he said last year after CHU won ANZIIF’s Excellence in Workplace Diversity and Inclusion Award. “It’s now a strategic imperative for any business with aspirations of growth and success into the future.”
