MetLife Insurance has boosted its innovation and sales teams with two new senior appointments.

Brenton Charnley has been named Senior Manager, Innovation and Alex Kleiman has joined as Head of B2B Sales and the Melbourne office.

Mr Charnley was previously at KPMG Australia, where he was global program manager for elevate61, the entrepreneur program helping technology start-ups scale globally.

At MetLife, Mr Charnley will be responsible for innovation in the organisation and improving customer relations.

Mr Kleiman joins MetLife from Mercer, where he was previously Partner and Sales Leader responsible for its financial services business.

He will be responsible for new business sales and acquisitions for group and direct.