Talented young insurance broker becomes director
Noel Kelly of AEI Transport Insurance Brokers has become a new member of accreditation body TruckSafe’s board of directors.
TruckSafe chair Ferdie Kroon notes Kelly has a long history with TruckSafe, with his father, the late John Kelly, playing an instrumental role in developing the initiative, as well as many fatigue management and driver training programs.
“The success of TruckSafe today can be credited to the passion and drive of John Kelly, and I am honoured to now welcome his son, Noel, as a member of the TruckSafe board of directors,” Kroon says.
Kelly became involved in the trucking industry through his late father, who previously worked as a risk manager at NTI while Noel was finishing his degree studying business.
“Through mutual contacts I began working at AEI Transport Insurance Brokers and have never looked back. I thoroughly enjoy dealing with operators in our great trucking industry that keeps Australia moving,” Kelly says.
“TruckSafe is important to me as it provides as it provides a set of standards to help mitigate risk and manage safety.
“These are the fundamental aspects which help make the roads a safer and more productive workplace for drivers and operators.”
Read Kroon’s endorsement of AEI-backed TruckSafe, here
In his role as TruckSafe director, Kelly will join the board in delivering benefits to trucking operators, customers, governments and the community, as well as helping customer to meet their duty of care and chain of responsibility obligations.
Kelly hopes to bring further benefits to the board from an insurance perspective.
“I believe that the insurance industry, across all classes of insurance including workers compensation, can better understand the great work the Trucksafe Accreditation program does for its members and leverage these opportunities to provide greater benefits to the members,” he says.
Kelly is star in the Australian insurance broking constellation, having won the Warren Tickle Memorial Award, the annual gong for the best young professional broker under 35 years of age, in 2016, after winning similar recognition in New South Wales.