Winners Of UNiBA Partners' Alan Sutton Award

This award is named after much missed former UNiBA Partners board director Alan Sutton. The Alan Sutton Award highlights outstanding service by an individual staff member of a UNiBA Partner.

2011 - Brian Salisbury Austbrokers SPT, Australia

Brian Salisbury received the 2011 Alan Sutton Award for his exceptional successes in enabling clients to remotely work through very complex insurance situations. For overseas firms with subsidiaries or project exposures in Australia, distance itself heightens the importance of excellent communication and professional know-how. Even in complex circumstances Brian has consistently ensured that all parties – the mother company, its broker and the local client - fully understand the needs, options and tradeoffs involved in a given situation. Brian’s combination of professional know-how and communication skills has enabled him to tailor solutions that exceed the expectations of even very demanding clients.

2010 – Louis-René Cellier Groupe France Courtage, France

Louis-René received the 2010 award for his ability to bring his technical expertise to bear on real-life client problems. His expertise was, among other things, instrumental in improving policy wordings in international programs designed outside of France. With enormous commitment and expertise Louis-René was able to resolve an old, cash-flow critical claims issue for a new client. His insight and astute recommendations have earned him the trust of local and foreign clients alike.

2009 – Elaine Redington Sutton Winson, United Kingdom

In 2009 the Alan Sutton Award went to Elaine Redington, Account Executive and International Desk Manager with Sutton Winson in the UK. Truly outstanding service and responsiveness, real client focus as well as actually going the extra mile were some of the characteristics described in the different award nominations.

2008 - Zsolt Rozsahegyi Potter Broker Insurance Services, Hungary

The 2008 award went to Zsolt for consistently providing a high level of proactive and technically pertinent communication on international clients as well as extraordinary service and responsiveness.

2007 - Wolfgang Rödiger Lübcke & Co Munich, Germany

Wolfgang was awarded the prize for his exceptional work in enabling communication on a complicated German-based risk with exposures in Brazil. Bridging the cultural differences, ensuring that all parties involved in the program worked together towards the same end, overcoming parochial thinking were all real challenges which Wolfgang worked hard to overcome.