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18 April 2024
Quilter plc
Directorate Change
Quilter plc ("Quilter" or the "Company") today announces that Alison Morris has been appointed as an independent Non-executive Director of the Company and is expected to join the Board on Monday 9 September 2024. On appointment, Alison will also join the Board Audit Committee and Board Risk Committee.
Commenting on today's announcement, Ruth Markland, Quilter Chair, said, "I am delighted to welcome Alison Morris to the Board. Her deep financial expertise and audit experience in the financial services sector will be invaluable to us as we continue to invest in our business and deliver our strategic ambitions."
Alison said, "I am very much looking forward to joining the Quilter Board as a Non-executive Director and working alongside my Board colleagues in supporting the management team successfully meeting the increasing demand for financial advice and long-term savings products."
Notes:
1. | Alison Morris is a chartered accountant and brings extensive recent and relevant experience of the financial services sector. She has detailed and specialist knowledge of accounting and auditing practices having been a partner in PwC's financial services audit practice from 1994 until the end of 2019. She has led external audits and internal audit projects across the financial services sector in the FTSE100 and FTSE250 and held a number of leadership roles within PwC, including being a member of the executive management team which led their audit practice. Alison holds an MA in Economics with International Studies from the University of St Andrews. |
2. | Alison has served as a Non-executive Director of Paragon Banking Group plc since March 2020, is Chair of the Audit Committee and serves on their Risk Committee. In August 2023 she was appointed as their Senior Independent Director. She was appointed to the Sabre Insurance Group Plc Board in May 2022, and Chairs their Audit Committee and is a member of their Risk Committee. Alison is currently a Non-executive Director of M&G Group Limited, part of the M&G plc group, and will step down from that role prior to joining the Quilter Board. She was previously a Non-executive Director and Audit Committee Chair of Vanquis Bank Limited, part of the Vanquis Banking Group plc (formerly Provident Financial Group plc). |
3. | Other than those listed above, Alison has held no other directorships at listed companies during the last five years. |
4. | No other details are required to be disclosed in respect of the appointment of Alison under Paragraph 9.6.13R of the Listing Rules of the UK Listing Authority, save as disclosed in this announcement. |
Enquiries:
John-Paul Crutchley - Head of Investor Relations
| Tel: +44 (0)7741 385 251
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Clare Barrett - Company Secretary
| Tel: +44 (0)207 002 7072 |
About Quilter plc:
Quilter plc is a leading provider of financial advice, investments and wealth management, committed to being the UK's best wealth manager for clients and their advisers.
Quilter oversees £106.7 billion in customer investments (as at 31 December 2023).
It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management.
The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth.
Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business.
High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning.