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Patricia Priest

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Chief Underwriting and Transformation Officer at QBE Insurance
📍 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Patricia Priest is the Chief Underwriting and Transformation Officer for Australia Pacific at QBE. A seasoned financial services executive with a CPA designation, she has a proven track record in leadership, holding CFO and COO roles across general, life, credit, and health insurance and reinsurance with companies like SCOR and Munich Re.

Patricia shows a keen interest in the future of insurance by personally investing in the industrys innovation. She is an angel investor in insurtech startups, such as Upcover, and has expressed a particular passion for supporting and backing female founders who are bringing fresh ideas to the financial services sector.

Unique fact: It was her first-ever startup investment, and she was delighted to be backing a female founder.

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Experience
26 Years
Current Role
Chief Underwriting and Transformation Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Insurance Transformation
Her current role is Chief Underwriting and Transformation Officer, focused on modernizing QBE's business to better serve customers and communities.
Insurtech Innovation
She is an active angel investor in the insurtech space, personally backing startups like Upcover that are disrupting the traditional insurance landscape.
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Career

Work history

6-2025
Chief Underwriting and Transformation Officer
QBE Insurance
5-2024 - 6-2025
General Manager, Commercial Insurance
QBE Insurance
3-2022 - 5-2024
General Manager, LMI
QBE Insurance
6-2020 - 4-2022
Deputy Chief Financial Officer Australia Pacific
QBE Insurance
12-2019 - 6-2020
Chief Financial Officer
SCOR
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Education
2019 - 2019
GAICD
Australian Institute of Company Directors
2019 - 2019
Certified Practicing Accountant
CPA Australia Program
2012 - 2012
Chartered Professional Accountant
Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada)
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