Melbourne-based Edgewise Insurance Brokers Chairman Gary Seymour has won the 2023 Lex McKeown trophy. 

The award honours outstanding service to the National Insurance Brokers Association (NIBA) and a significant contribution to the broking profession. 

Mr Seymour, a past NIBA board director, is Chair at Community Broker Network and Whitbread Holdings and a Director at Chubb Insurance Australia & NZ and Partners Wealth Group. He established what is now Steadfast’s IQumulate Premium Funding, and then Edgewise with other brokers in 2009, taking up the Chairman role in 2015 after a stint as PSC Insurance Group CEO. 

He is a past President and Honorary Life Member of the Australian Insurance Institute and an Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF) Senior Associate. 

NIBA President Gary Okely thanked Mr Seymour for his “tireless efforts and contributions to the broking profession over what has been a remarkable career". 

“Gary has been a distinctive pillar of our broking profession for more than four decades and has made an invaluable contribution to NIBA”.