{"id":755,"date":"2021-09-24T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prnasia.com\/story\/archive\/3517081_AE17081_0"},"modified":"2021-09-24T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T03:00:00","slug":"manulife-appoints-pankaj-banerjee-as-new-chief-distribution-officer-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transmediavictoria.net.au\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"Manulife appoints Pankaj Banerjee as new Chief Distribution Officer, Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<table name=\"logo_release\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1332919\/Manulife_Logo.jpg?p=medium600\" border=\"0\" alt title=\"logo\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"118\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">HONG KONG<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 24, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Manulife today announced the appointment of <span class=\"xn-person\">Pankaj Banerjee<\/span> as its new Chief Distribution Officer, <span class=\"xn-location\">Asia<\/span>. His appointment is effective <span class=\"xn-chron\">24 September 2021<\/span>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder7749\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1633371\/Manulife_Chief_Distribution_Officer_Pankaj_B_Sep2021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1633371\/Manulife_Chief_Distribution_Officer_Pankaj_B_Sep2021.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"Pankaj Banerjee, Chief Distribution Officer, Asia, Manulife\" alt=\"Pankaj Banerjee, Chief Distribution Officer, Asia, Manulife\"><\/a><br \/><span>Pankaj Banerjee, Chief Distribution Officer, Asia, Manulife<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pankaj joins Manulife&#8217;s Asia Division Executive Committee reporting to Anil Wadhwani, President &amp; CEO, <span class=\"xn-location\">Asia<\/span>. He will also be a member of the company&#8217;s Global Leadership Team. Pankaj will be responsible for growing, developing, and digitising Manulife&#8217;s agency force across its <span class=\"xn-location\">Asia<\/span> markets. He will also focus on further strengthening Manulife&#8217;s bancassurance capabilities, while driving the adoption of digital channels and tools.&nbsp;He succeeds <span class=\"xn-person\">Vibha Coburn<\/span>, who currently serves as CEO of Manulife Malaysia. <\/p>\n<p>Pankaj brings over 20 years of experience in the insurance industry across <span class=\"xn-location\">Asia<\/span>. He joins Manulife from AIA,&nbsp;where he most recently served as CEO, Group Partnership Distribution, covering all markets of AIA Group. Pankaj was previously CEO of AIA Sri Lanka, where he led various business transformation initiatives, including the development of a full-time quality agency model. Before AIA, Pankaj was with Prudential for nearly 10 years working across <span class=\"xn-location\">Southeast Asia<\/span>, including serving as the founding CEO of Prudential Cambodia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pankaj is highly regarded in the insurance industry for his work on expanding and deepening distribution, while driving solid results,&#8221; said Wadhwani. &#8220;His vast experience will help further progress our digitisation and growth ambitions within our agency force and bancassurance partnerships across <span class=\"xn-location\">Asia<\/span>, fulfilling our commitment to make the lives of millions more customers <i><span id=\"spanHghlt4aff\">every day better<\/span><\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>About Manulife<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in <span class=\"xn-location\">Toronto, Canada<\/span>, we operate as Manulife across our offices in <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Asia<\/span>, and <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span>, and primarily as <span class=\"xn-person\">John Hancock<\/span> in <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>. We provide financial advice, insurance, and our global wealth and asset management segment, Manulife Investment Management, serves individuals, institutions and retirement plan members worldwide. At the end of 2020, we had more than 37,000 employees, over 118,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 30 million customers. As of <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 30, 2021<\/span>, we had <span class=\"xn-money\">CAD$1.3 trillion<\/span> (<span class=\"xn-money\">US$1.1 trillion<\/span>) in assets under management and administration, and in the previous 12 months we made <span class=\"xn-money\">$31.3 billion<\/span> in payments to our customers. Our principal operations are in <span class=\"xn-location\">Asia<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span> where we have served customers for more than 155 years. We trade as &#8216;MFC&#8217; on the <span class=\"xn-location\">Toronto<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">New York<\/span>, and the Philippine stock exchanges and under &#8216;945&#8217; in <span class=\"xn-location\">Hong Kong<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Contacts<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Augustine Kwan<\/span> (Media Relations)<br \/>Manulife<br \/>+852 6772 8037<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:Augustine_Kwan@Manulife.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Augustine_Kwan@Manulife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Eileen Tam<\/span> (Investor Relations)<br \/>Manulife<br \/>+852 9030 5618<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:Eileen_Tam@Manulife.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eileen_Tam@Manulife.com<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG, Sept. 24, 2021 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Manulife today announced the appointment of Pankaj Banerjee as its new Chief Distribution Officer, Asia. 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