RAC Insurance has appointed Mike McCarthy to the position of chief executive officer. Mr McCarthy was previously based with the CUNA Mutual Group in Australia, overseeing the group’s general and lifestyle insurance businesses for the past seven years. He has worked in the insurance industry for 25 years, having joined the National Credit Union Insurance Services in 1982 from BHP, and has experience in insurance broking, insurance system development and insurance product distribution and manufacture. Mr McCarthy has a bachelor of commerce degree from the University of Western Australia, an advanced diploma of financial services and is a fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance.