Appointments

HSBC Life UK director of distribution Mike Furniss has left the insurer to take up a senior chartered financial planner position at Francis Clark Financial Planning. National account manager Richard Waters will...

Health assessment provider Bluecrest Wellness has appointed Dr Martin Thornton as chief medical officer. Dr Thornton (pictured) will lead the clinical oversight of Bluecrest's health assessments, and the subsequent health advice given...

Legal & General Retail has appointed Georgia Perkins as protection market development manager. Perkins joins from HSBC where she was a business development manager. Before that was a protection consultant at Aegon....

HealthHero has appointed Brandon Collins to the newly created role of commercial director. Speaking to Health & Protection about his new role, Collins (pictured) revealed he has been brought on board to...

Lockton has appointed Mukul Bhatia, Irfan Shirwani, and Prasanna Hunur, in director roles, to work at establishing it as the industry’s international broker in the Indian market. These key additions will support...

The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) has added Business Protected Ltd and Your Life Protected as members and appointed Chelsea Warren as board member. Warren, the head of financial protection at SPF Private...

EY has appointed Alistair Brannan as UK head of life and pensions. Brannan (pictured) will also join EY’s UK insurance leadership team and remains client and markets leader for its financial services business...

Trawick International has appointed Global Benefits Group alumni Claire Hargreaves and Darren Fletcher as managing director and head of sales and distribution respectively of its accident and health division in the UK....

Unum UK has appointed Lio Lopez-Welsch as chief information and digital officer. Lopez-Welsch (pictured) who joins from Aegon UK where he was CIO, will also sit on Unum UK’s executive committee and...

International insurance broker Howden has appointed Mike Baker as chief client officer of Howden Asia.   Based in Singapore, Baker reports to Goh Chye Huat, CEO, Howden Asia.   Baker’s role is...