Blessing has over 20 years’ industry experience and has gained it through working as a consultant, principal consultant and branch head at NBC and Alexander Forbes. He has acted as chief operations officer for Discovery’s Group Risk Division and has overseen the operations of the Alexander Forbes Group call centre and client servicing teams. More recently he was the managing director of Liberty Viewpoint (Pty) Ltd and is now the executive director of Momentum Consultants and Actuaries.