Envest’s Aviso Group has appointed Jeff Moule to the newly created position of chief broking officer, providing dedicated leadership for the national network of businesses amid wider changes to the corporate and competitive landscape.

Mr Moule has three decades’ experience in the insurance industry and has held leadership positions at various Envest-owned businesses. He will work with Aviso CEO Travis Kemp on the next phase of growth in the independent broking pillar, with his previous role as Aviso Broking CEO taken by David Bailey, a founding principal and board director.

Aviso Group comprises 10 brokerages across five states. Aviso Broking is the second-largest business and has 11 offices from Sydney to the Sunshine Coast, with more than 150 staff.

“Jeff’s newly created position will add immense value to our network of Aviso Group partners by focusing on how we support their underlying businesses, drive strategic partner support, develop strong industry relations and roll out new technology platforms,” Mr Kemp said.

He says Mr Bailey, as a “legacy Aviso business owner”, is “uniquely positioned to take the helm at Aviso Broking, to provide stability for staff and lead the business into the next chapter of its story”.

Mr Moule says he looks forward to building the Aviso Group reputation and brand.

“In the past few months, Envest’s growth and the market conditions have given us an opportunity to chart our own future and become fully independent and self-sufficient,” he said.

“With dedicated resources, strong leadership and the support of Envest, I’m confident that we will maintain Aviso Group as the industry-leading broking group.”

Envest, which also includes authorised representative network Resilium and underwriting agencies, is part of UK-based Ardonagh, which this week took the final steps required for its $2.3 billion acquisition of PSC Insurance Group.

PSC parted ways with the Steadfast network last year and developed its own APEX platform, and Envest will also be leaving the Steadfast network.

Aviso says Mr Moule and Mr Bailey’s appointments will support the Aviso Group exit from Steadfast and the integration of PSC businesses into the Envest Group.

The appointments took effect from Monday.