Appointment of Interim Chief

RNS Number : 1821C

Standard Life plc

09 November 2009

 



Standard Life plc

Appointment of Interim Chief Financial Officer

Following the announcement that David Nish will be taking over as Group Chief Executive from 1st January 2010, Standard Life plc ('the Company') announces that Jackie Hunt, Deputy Group Finance Director, has been appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer. She will assume the duties of Chief Financial Officer on an acting basis with effect from 9 November 2009 until the Board confirms the appointment of a new Chief Financial Officer in due course.  The Company will commence the formal recruitment process for a new Chief Financial Officer immediately.

Jackie Hunt will be invited to attend Board meetings to discharge the responsibilities of the Chief Financial Officer but she will not be appointed to the Standard Life plc Board during this interim period.

Jackie joined the Company at the beginning of this year.  She was previously the Chief Finance Officer at Norwich Union Insurance, Aviva's general insurance business.  After graduating from university in South Africa, she qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloittes in South Africa and subsequently moved to their New Zealand practice. She then joined PricewaterhouseCoopers where she worked in New York, Zurich and London with their Global Capital Markets Group.  In late 1999 Jackie joined Royal & Sun Alliance's capital management team before moving to Aviva in 2003.

9 November 2009

 

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