Angelo Maniatis
Vice President, Risk Engineering Casualty & Professional & Financial Risks, Asia Pacific
T: +61 3 9619 9868
Angelo Maniatis
Vice President, Risk Engineering Casualty & Professional & Financial Risks, Asia Pacific
Department
Casualty
Main Role
Angelo is the head of Casualty in Asia. Based in Melbourne, he leads our liability teams in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and China.
Personal Profile
Angelo joined Liberty in 2009 in Melbourne as the head of Casualty Risk Engineering across Asia Pacific, before relocating to Perth where he added the role of Branch Manager of Western Australia to his responsibilities. Angelo has dealt with clients across construction, manufacturing, oil & gas, chemical plants, rail transport and infrastructure.
He holds Civil Engineering qualifications from RMIT, and a Graduate Diploma in Business Management.
Fazry Alias
Risk Engineer
Department
Energy, Property & Construction
Main Role
Risk Engineer supporting underwriters and claims team within Energy, Property & Construction division.
Personal Profile
Fazry joined Liberty in 2023 with 10 years of experience in different roles within turbine OEM and power generation companies.
Fazry holds a Bachelor Degree of Applied Science (Mechanical Engineering) from University of Toronto, Canada.
Hanghei D'Aversa
Assistant Vice President & Risk Engineer, Marine
Department
Marine
Main role
Hanghei leads the Marine Project Cargo and General Cargo portfolios across Asia. Hehas a strong risk engineering background and is involved in risk assessment across the full suite of our marine risks, including Commercial Hull, Ship Builder’s, Marine Liabilities and Exploration & Production.
Personal profile
Hanghei joined Liberty Singapore at the beginning of 2015 with more than a decade of experience working as a Heavy Lift and Transport engineer in the UK and Asia Pacific. His experience includes the conceptual planning and implementation of transport and heavy crane lifts for major projects globally, HAZCON risk assessment studies, method statements, detailed lifting and transport studies, heavy rigging equipment inspections and the technical review of subcontract tenders, as well as practical, on-site experience. During his time at Liberty, Hanghei has progressed to lead underwriting for the Asia Cargo portfolio.
Hanghei holds a HNC/HND in Mechanical Engineering.
Imelda Lim
Principal Risk Engineer, Energy, Property & Construction
Department
Energy, Property & Construction
Main Role
Imelda is Principal Risk Engineer supporting Singapore's Energy, Property & Construction Division.
Personal Profile
Before joining Liberty, Imelda worked for FM Global in Malaysia and Singapore providing risk engineering/loss prevention consultancy services for Asian clients across industries including pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, chemicals, electronics and mechanical equipment manufacturing.
Imelda is a Chemical Engineer.
Imran Ashari
Senior Risk Engineer, Energy, Property & Construction
Department
Energy, Property & Construction
Main Role
As Risk Engineer within Liberty’s Energy and Construction Division, Imran works with Liberty staff in Singapore, providing technical support for underwriting and claims for first party lines of businesses across Asia.
Part of this involves site surveys of commercial and industrial properties, as well as construction projects. The properties or projects can involve office buildings, hotels, as well as various kinds of manufacturing facilities within Asia.
Personal Profile
Prior to joining Liberty, Imran spent 10 years as a risk engineer in FM Global, and 5 years in the construction industry in Singapore.
Jackson Sim
Risk Engineer
Department
Casualty
Main Role
Risk Engineer supporting casualty underwriters and claims teams.
Personal Profile
Jackson joined Liberty in 2023, with more than 10 years of technical/manufacturing experience in both the petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries.
Jackson holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) from National University of Singapore (NUS).
Luis Gonzalez
Senior Risk Engineer, Crisis Management
Department
Crisis Management
Main role
Luis works side by side with underwriters providing technical support, allowing him to have a thorough understanding of our clients’ business and their insurance needs.
Personal profile
Luis has expertise in a broad range of industries, from automotive to pharma, allows him to have a better understanding of our clients’ business and the ability to underwrite a wide variety of risks.
MK Cheah
Senior Risk Engineer, Marine
Department
Marine
Main role
Senior Risk Engineer
Personal profile
MK joined Liberty in January 2025 to provide marine technical support to the Underwriting and Claims teams.
Prior to joining Liberty, MK worked in the major shipyards in Singapore for over 10 years, building his hands-on experience in safety and production operations. He has also worked in marine surveying, conducting hull and machinery, marine warranty surveys (including towage, heavy lifts, and loadouts), shipyard risk assessments, vessel pre-risk surveys, as well as salvage and wreck removal operations. He has a wealth of knowledge and practical experience to support comprehensive risk assessments, mitigation strategies, and informed marine underwriting decisions.
MK holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering (1st Class Honors) and a Certificate in Ship Valuation.
Tim Bugg
Assistant Vice President, Risk Engineering, Professional & Financial Risks
T: +61 7 3235 8803
Tim Bugg
Assistant Vice President, Risk Engineering, Professional & Financial Risks
Department
Professional & Financial Risks
Main role
Tim supports Liberty’s underwriters, brokers and clients to understand the key technical, delivery and Professional Indemnity risks associated with engineering and construction projects.
Personal profile
Tim is an experienced engineer and project and design manager who has worked across a diverse array of industries, including agriculture, mining, water, oil and gas, desalination, power generation, manufacturing and construction. He has spent more than 20 years in the engineering and construction sector alone.
Tim holds a Masters in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical). He is a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) with Engineers Australia and a Registered Professional Engineer in Queensland (RPEQ).
Yeong Sheng Chow
Vice President & Head of Energy, Property & Construction, Asia
T: +65 6622 9176
Yeong Sheng Chow
Vice President & Head of Energy, Property & Construction, Asia
Department
Energy, Property & Construction
Main Role
Yeong Sheng joined Liberty in 2003 and heads up the Risk Engineering Division responsible for all risk management activities in Asia, supporting underwriting and claims as part of the Energy, Property & Construction Division.
Personal Profile
Yeong Sheng has done extensive risk management work in Asia, including site surveys, in-house risk assessment and risk engineering/loss prevention consultancy, across industries ranging from oil, gas and petrochemicals to manufacturing, logistics, and IT.
A graduate chemical engineer, he has 10 years experience in risk engineering for the insurance industry.
Yeong Sheng’s non-insurance experience includes 7 years in the petrochemical industry in Singapore working on process engineering, operations, Greenfield project turnover and start-up.