Please find below all Executive and Non Executive Board Directors and a key with Board Committee responsibilities.
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Vanni Treves (a) (b) (d)
Chairman
Vanni Treves was appointed non-executive Chairman in February 2001. He chairs the Nominations Committee. He has been a solicitor for over 40 years, specialising in corporate law. He was 30 years a partner, for 12 of them Senior Partner, at the leading law firm, Macfarlanes. He has extensive experience on Boards, having been a Director (in the majority of cases Chairman) of six public companies, a statutory corporation and London Business School. Vanni is presently Chairman of Intertek Group Plc and the National College of School Leadership and a Director of a number of other companies. Age 67.
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Charles Thomson (c) (d)
Chief Executive
Charles Thomson was appointed Chief Executive of the Society and joined the Board in March 2001. With a career in the management and leadership of mutual societies and proprietary life companies spanning over 30 years and extensive knowledge of corporate transformation within the life and pensions industry, he was formerly Deputy Chief Executive at Scottish Widows and Chairman of the Life Board of the actuarial profession. He has also been a Director of a further five life and pension companies. Since 2001, he has steered the Society to a more stable footing and is leading the strategic review of the options for the future of the Society. Age 59.
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David Adams OBE (a) (c)
David Adams joined the Board in April 2001. He was Finance Director from 1974 and Chief Executive from 1979 of Harrow Council. In 1987 he became Finance Director of the Railways Pension Scheme and was appointed Chief Executive four years later. From 1997 to 2000 he was Chief Executive of CIPFA. He is a non-executive Director of the Keystone Investment Trust plc. He is honorary Chair of trustees of the Mencap Pension Plan Trustees and of the Scout Association Pension Scheme Trustees. Age 69.
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Tim Bateman
Finance Director
Tim Bateman joined the Board in January 2008. Tim has experience of consultancy with PwC and was also Appointed Actuary for Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (UK) Ltd until 2004. He has been with the Society since 2004 and he has held the posts of With-profits Actuary and head of Actuarial Function with Equitable Life. He was appointed General Manager (Finance) in April 2007 and Finance Director in January 2008. Age 49.
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Ian Brimecome (c)
Ian Brimecome joined the Board in January 2007. He became Chairman of the Investment Committee on 1 January 2008. He is Chairman of Fox-Pitt Kelton Ltd’s Advisory Board and a non-executive Director of Axa UK plc and Venture Preference Ltd. He was a non-executive Director of Winterthur UK Financial Services Group Ltd until December 2006. He has over 30 years of experience of the financial services industry in a wide variety of roles. He has advised on more than eighty merger and acquisition transactions in the insurance and asset management industries in more than 20 countries. He is an Associate of the Institute of Financial Services and a Member of the Institute of Management. Age 55.
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Ian Reynolds (a) (c)
Ian Reynolds, a Chartered Director, joined the Board in October 2006. He is a non-executive Director of Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society and of Alternative Assets Opportunities, and is a Member of the Council of the Institute of Actuaries. He has over 40 years of experience in the insurance industry. He held the roles of UK Divisional Director and then General Manager Life at Commercial Union plc and a variety of posts at Royal Insurance. He has also worked as a special advisor at the Financial Services Authority and, since 2003, as a senior consultant at Beachcroft Regulatory Consulting. Age 64.
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Fred Shedden (c)
Fred Shedden joined the Board in May 2002 and chaired the Legal Audit Committee from January 2004 to January 2008. A solicitor by profession, he retired as Senior Partner of McGrigors in 2002 having spent his entire professional career with that firm. He has been a non-executive Director of a number of listed and unlisted companies, including Standard Life Assurance Company before it demutualised. He is currently a Director of Murray International Trust plc and iomart group plc. He is also Chair of The Centre for Confidence and Wellbeing Ltd. and Vice-Chair of Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow Housing Association. Age 64.
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Peter Smith (a) (b) (d)
Deputy Chairman
Senior Independent Director
Peter Smith joined the Board in April 2001. He chairs the Audit Committee. He is Chairman of Savills plc and Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust plc and a non-executive Director of N M Rothschild & Sons Ltd., and Associated British Foods plc. He was Senior Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers until June 2000. In June 2005, following completion of the acquisition by Aviva, he retired from the Chairmanship and the Board of RAC plc. Age 61.
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Andrew Threadgold (c)
Andrew Threadgold joined the Board in April 2001. He chaired the Investment Committee between April 2001 and December 2007. He started his career as a professional economist, holding positions at a range of organisations including the Bank of England. He subsequently moved into investment management, and has been Chief Executive of PosTel (now named Hermes), the Investment Manager for the British Telecom and Post Office pension funds, and Chief Investment Officer for the large Australian life company, AMP. He now holds a number of advisory, consultancy and non-executive directorship positions. Age 64.
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Jean Wood (b)
Jean Wood joined the Board in April 2001. She chairs the Remuneration Committee. She has worked for 25 years in the life insurance and pensions industry, in the UK, Ireland and Canada. Jean's work ranged from staff and management development to management of sales and marketing functions, leading to a position as Managing Director of a medium-sized life company, from which she retired in 1998. She is a Director of The Chelsea Building Society. Age 65.
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