Directorate Change

RNS Number : 9371F

Legal & General Group Plc

01 November 2018

 

Legal & General Group Plc Board announces the appointment of George Lewis as non-executive director of Legal & General Group Plc on 1 November 2018

1 November 2018

The Board of Legal & General Group Plc (the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of George Lewis as independent non-executive director of the Company with immediate effect.

George will join the Audit, Nominations and Risk Committees on appointment.

George brings to the Board significant experience in financial services and in particular a focus on asset management following a 30-year career with the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), including, from 2012 to 2015, as a member of RBC's Group Executive board responsible for RBC's global asset and wealth management and insurance businesses. His experience in growing RBC's global asset management business in the US, UK, Asia and other international markets will be important as the Group seeks to develop its LGIM business globally.

Sir John Kingman, Group Chairman, said:

"I am delighted to welcome George to the Group Board. George's many years of experience in the asset management sector will supplement the skills and experience of the Board and I look forward to working with him."

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Notes to Editors

Legal & General Group Plc

The Legal & General Group, established in 1836, is one of the UK's leading financial services companies. As at 31 December 2017, we had over 9.5 million customers in the UK for our life assurance, pensions, investments and general insurance plans and over 1 million life insurance customers in the US.

Over fifteen million people worldwide rely on us to help them save for the future and to protect their families and their homes.

Financial details

Legal & General has a market capitalisation of £ 15.0  billion (as at 31 October 2018) and is responsible for investing £985 billion worldwide (as at 30 June 2018) on behalf of investors, policyholders and shareholders.

 

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