Manulife Singapore appoints Robert Elliott as SVP and CDO

Formerly the Vice President, Agency Operations of Manulife (International) Limited, Elliott is now Senior Vice President and Chief Distribution Officer for Singapore.

His responsibilities include overseeing Agency Distribution, Partnership Distribution consisting of bank and financial advisory channels, Training, Distribution Services as well as Quality Assurance.

Elliott used to be responsible for formulating strategies to further drive the growth of Manulife's Agency Operations in Hong Kong as well as managing the Company's agency force and overseeing all the departments under Agency Operations.

In addition, he led agency development initiatives and built an effective management-supervision system within the agency force as Assistant Vice President, Distribution of Manulife in Hong Kong after spending 13 years with Manulife in the United Kingdom.

Elliott had also worked with two major insurance groups and in the independent financial-adviser market in the UK.