Managing Director, Andrew Proudfoot, provides strategic financial planning, life risk insurance, succession, advisory and claims consulting solutions across a variety of domains, and has 16 years experience as a financial planner and life insurance specialist. 

Prior to founding Protect & Govern, Andrew was Head of Advice Succession & Claims at Personal Risk Professionals (PRP) and previous to that, Director of Risk & Succession at MGD Wealth Ltd. He has held holistic wealth management and life risk specialist advisory positions with NAB & Suncorp. In the past 7 years alone (to September 2024) across the businesses he has been engaged with, Andrew has successfully triaged over $16Million in successful disability, critical illness, income protection and life insurance claims for clients and their loved ones with a 99% claims success/approval rate. 

Andrew holds a Masters Degree in Taxation & Financial Planning (UNSW), a Bachelor of Laws (LLB - UQ) and a Bachelor of Economics (UQ) and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (COL). He is also a part-time MPhil research candidate at the NICM Health Research Institute (WSU) where he is studying endometriosis and insurance medicine to improve coverage/claims outcomes for women in insurance markets across Australia. Andrew’s empathy, passion, and expertise, coupled with unique relationship and project management skills is what drives the solution set he provides to referrers and clients. 

Specialist skills: 

- Strategic personal life risk insurance management – life, trauma, disability and income protection insurance

- SMSFs: investments, insurance member coverage, fund liquidity, death and incapacity benefit payment strategies
- Claims management (with a focus on TPD Claims, Life Insurance Claims, Terminal Illness Claims, Trauma Claims, Superannuation Claims)

- Financial estate / business succession planning, consulting and triage including inheritance management

- Business life risk protection strategies – integrated buy/sell agreement and key person insurance solutions for business owners and their stakeholders 
- Group Insurance consulting (life, disability and salary continuance) for SMEs/Corporates/Trustees and their people 

- Insurance and Education Bonds
- Expert witness services (advice, life insurance and claims)