Colin Fagen

Role: Director
Company: Blue Zebra Insurance
Phone: 0400 624 912
Email: colin.fagen@bzi.com.au

Colin Fagen is the founder and Managing Director of Blue Zebra Insurance. BZI is an Insurtech Underwriting Agency that has built its own proprietary system and grown over five years to have a turnover in excess of $200m and 40 staff, servicing the intermediary market in both personal and commercial lines products.

Colin has extensive experience in Insurance with over 30 years participation at all levels in the Australian and global market. This accumulated experience is complimentary to the activities undertaken by individual Agencies and the UAC Board. He has held global C-suite roles including Chief Operations Officer, Chief Strategy Officer and CEO Australia and New Zealand for QBE Insurance. Other roles have included being the President and Vice President of the Insurance Council of Australia, Board member of ANZIIF and has sat on the Boards in various industry and private company organisations.

This experience involved dealing with all levels of local, state and federal government on a multitude of insurance issues, dealing with a large number of Agencies as an underwriter, operator, shareholder, Board member, Responsible Manager and purchaser and seller.
He has extensive networks throughout the industry worldwide.

Colin is passionate about nurturing and supporting talent in the insurance industry. He actively seeks to drive a supportive team culture and to drive innovation in the businesses in which he works and the broader insurance industry.

Colin has a Batchelor of Economics, an MBA, is an ANZIIF Affiliate and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Colin is committed to strengthening the UAC through making the network stronger and listening to the views of agencies to enhance the service that the UAC delivers to its members.