Aidan Fitzgerald, head of Engineering, Sedgwick New Zealand, started his insurance career as a protégé loss adjuster with limited insurance experience. 

Fitzgerald, the 2024 winner of the Donna Walker Award for Emerging Talent, says he worked hard to become “a qualified major and complex loss (MCL) adjuster”, before being offered the role of head of engineering in November 2023.

Nurturing curiosity

Fitzgerald’s father, an electronic engineer, sparked his early drive to understand how everything works.

“As a child, I was mesmerised by dad’s ability to know the unknowable,” he recalls. “He knew how TVs and computers worked, down to the functions of individual components.” 

The experience led Fitzgerald to explore machines and electronics, which sometimes got him into trouble. 

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