Appointment to the Board
.Appointed as a director of Chesnara on 2 August 2021 and as Group Chief Executive on 19 October 2021.
Career, skills and experience
Steve joined Chesnara from Royal London where, as part of their Group Executive Committee, he was Chief Commercial Officer with Group wide accountability for M&A and Strategy, Transformation and Analytics & Insight, as well as accountability for its legacy business and the take to market activity across the UK insurance and savings business. He was also a director of Royal London Asset Management. Prior to that he spent 15 years at Standard Life across a variety of roles, seeing it through demutualisation and IPO before leading Group M&A and strategy. He then worked in Standard Life’s UK & European insurance business initially as CEO of 1825 financial planning before becoming MD Commercial & Strategy. After leading the first phase of the separation of the UK & European insurance business to Phoenix, he was appointed as Deputy Head of the Private Market division in Aberdeen Standard Investments. Steve started his career with EY.
Current directorships/business interests:
- Countrywide Assured Services Ltd
- CASFS Ltd
- Countrywide Assured Life Holdings Limited
- Movestic Livförsäkring AB
- Scildon NV Supervisory Boardli>
- Waard Group Supervisory Board
- Cattanach -a private charity (Chair)