Robert Elliott

Robert Elliott
Senior Vice President & Chief Distribution Officer

Robert Elliott is Senior Vice President & Chief Distribution Officer (CDO). His portfolio of responsibilities includes overseeing Agency Distribution, Partnership Distribution consisting of bank and financial advisory channels, Training, Distribution Services as well as Quality Assurance.

Prior to his appointment as Singapore's CDO in 2010, Robert was the Vice President, Agency Operations of Manulife (International) Limited. He was in charge of managing the Company's agency force and overseeing all the departments under Agency Operations. He was also responsible for formulating strategies to further drive the growth of Manulife's Agency Operations in Hong Kong.

Robert had previously spent 13 years with Manulife in the United Kingdom, and was a member of the UK Executive Management Group before re-joining Manulife in Hong Kong in 2005 as Assistant Vice President, Distribution. He helped to deliver record sales and recruitment results, led agency development initiatives and key projects as well as built an effective management-supervision system within the agency force.

Robert has spent his entire career in the financial-services industry. His extensive experience spans a rare mix of financial, commercial and operational roles with various blue-chip companies. During his service with two major insurance groups in the UK, he made significant contributions to substantially boost productivity for their respective sales forces. In addition, he worked in the independent financial-adviser market in the UK, providing corporate consultancy and financial-planning services to business and high-net-worth clients.