DUBAI, United Arab Emirates--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 8, 2026--
Pacific Prime Dubai, a leading global insurance brokerage and employee benefits specialist, is proud to announce that it has been awarded the Best Individual Sales 2025 award by Allianz Partners, recognizing the brokerage's outstanding performance and continued excellence in providing individual health insurance solutions.
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The award was presented on July 2, 2026, by Carl Downham, Head of Sales, Health & Benefits, Allianz Partners, to David Hayes, CEO of Pacific Prime Dubai, celebrating another successful year of partnership between the two organizations.
The presentation was also attended by representatives from Allianz Partners including Luke Norrey, Senior Lead Account Management; Mohamad Hamadeh, Senior Lead - IPMI SME & Individual New Business; Dr. Uttara Pinge, Senior Lead Account Management; and Duncan Crerar, Senior Lead Corporate Sales. Silvia Pasqualetto, Matthew Ralton, and Mark McClelland were also present to represent Pacific Prime at the ceremony.
Speaking at the presentation, Carl Downham remarked:
“We are proud to recognize Pacific Prime once again as our ‘Best Individual Sales’ partner for 2025. Their commitment to delivering quality individual health business year after year is proof of the strength of our partnership. With our exciting new Sphera plans now in the market, the best of this partnership is still ahead of us.”
David Hayes, CEO of Pacific Prime Dubai, expressed his appreciation for the recognition, saying:
"We are honored to receive Allianz Partners' Best Individual Sales 2025 award. This recognition reflects the dedication of our team and the trust our clients place in us every day. Our longstanding partnership with Allianz Partners has enabled us to deliver high-quality health insurance solutions to individuals across the region, and we look forward to building on this success together as we continue to help more clients secure the protection they need."
About Allianz Partners, Health
Allianz Partners, Health offers health, life, and disability insurance as well as health and protection services to consumers, small businesses, large multinationals, IGOs, NGOs and government organizations worldwide, covering over 770,000 lives globally. Allianz Partners, Health has the widest range of health benefits in the market, enabling them to help organizations support and protect staff in an unpredictable world as well as to push boundaries to make life simpler and easier for clients.
To learn more about Allianz Partners, Health, please visit: https://www.allianz-partners.com/en_global.html
About Pacific Prime
Established in 2000, Pacific Prime is an award-winning global insurance brokerage and employee benefits specialist that offers individual and corporate insurance solutions. With over USD $1 billion premium under management, Pacific Prime is the third-largest employee benefits broker in the Asia Pacific. The brokerage has over 1,000 employees and 16 offices worldwide, including Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Thailand, Malaysia, the UAE, Indonesia, the UK, the US, Mexico, the Philippines, and Australia.
To learn more about Pacific Prime, please visit: www.pacificprime.com/corporate
Representatives of Pacific Prime Dubai and Allianz Partners at the Best Individual Sales 2025 award presentation.
The U.S. military launched a series of strikes against Iranian targets early Wednesday after three merchant ships were struck in the waters off Oman, pushing the Strait of Hormuz back onto center stage as NATO opened the second day of its summit in Turkey.
U.S. Central Command said in a social media post that U.S. forces launched the strikes “to impose heavy costs for targeting and attacking commercial shipping crewed by innocent civilians in an international waterway.”
NATO leaders are trying to show increased military capabilities as the U.S. focus shifts from defending Europe. The alliance is holding a two-day summit in Ankara, Turkey, that will showcase military projects worth billions of dollars aimed at persuading Trump they are making a stronger Europe for a stronger NATO.
As the summit meetings began Wednesday, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said the overnight U.S. strikes on Iran were necessary because Iran had violated the ceasefire.
U.S. President Donald Trump met with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday ahead of the summit and announced the U.S. will lift sanctions, opening the possibility of selling F-35 jets to Turkey over Israel's objections.
Trump also criticized NATO’s abilities to function without U.S. leadership and power, expressing disappointment at the refusal of some NATO allies to join the Iran war he launched alongside Israel without consulting them.
Trump also insisted again that Greenland should be “controlled by the United States, not by Denmark.” Of all of his threats to NATO and its member countries, this has posed the greatest danger to the organization.
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Speaking at the NATO summit a day after U.S. President Donald Trump again expressed a desire for the U.S. to control Greenland, Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said, “Greenland is of course not for sale.”
“We hope that all, including all allies, will respect the Greenland people right for self-determination,” she said. “And we are sovereign states and we need everybody to respect our territorial integrity and our sovereignty.”
She said Denmark is “ready to defend every inch of NATO including our own territory” in the event of an attack and would rely on NATO allies to honor their commitment to defend each other.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Wednesday at the alliance’s summit in Ankara that the overnight U.S. strikes on Iran were necessary.
Iran had violated the ceasefire, Rutte said.
“I think it is totally crucial that the U.S. forcefully reacts,” Rutte said.
He expects NATO members to “reconfirm that Iran should never, ever get its hands on a nuclear capability” and also to reaffirm the importance of freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy looks out from his car window as he arrives for the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. (Metin Aktaş, Pool Photo via AP)
Members of the Historical Honor Guard stand before the welcoming ceremony for President Donald Trump at the Bestepe Presidential Palace during the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, July 7, 2026.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Front row from left, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew G. Whitaker attend the formal welcome for President Donald Trump at the NATO summit at the Bestepe Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
US President Donald Trump and American officials meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkish officials at the Bestepe Presidential Compound in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, July, 7, 2026. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
President Donald Trump, right, speaks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he arrives for the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. (Doğukan Keskinkılıç, Pool Photo via AP)
