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TONI FERRIER P L AY I N G TO S T R E NG T HS COMPANY // AIG New Zealand TITLE // CEO
AIG New Zealand CEO Toni Ferrier is a firm believer in the leadership mantra ‘we are better together’. She’s focused on bringing the company’s corporate expertise to the SME segment at scale. STORY Anna Game-Lopata
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orn in Australia and raised in the small town of Kerikeri in New Zealand, Toni Ferrier came from a family that was always struggling to make ends meet. ‘I was constantly told that I’d need to earn my own money as I was never going to inherit any,’ says Ferrier, CEO of AIG New Zealand. ‘I chose law because my 17-year-old brain figured lawyers made money.’ One of the few in her secondary school year level to go on to further education, Ferrier completed her law degree at the University of Waikato.
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