Alastair Lyons, CBE, MA, FCA
Non-executive Chairman

Alastair Lyons is Non-executive Chairman of the Admiral Group, the FTSE-100 direct motor insurer, a role he has held since 2000, and of Serco, the FTSE-100 international support services business. He is also Deputy Chairman of Bovis, the national house-builder, and SID of Phoenix, the closed life-fund consolidator.

Peter Cullum, CBE, PhD, MBA, FCII, MCIM
Founder & Non-executive Deputy Chairman

Peter began his insurance career in 1969 with the Royal Insurance Group and progressed to sales and marketing positions within Commercial Union and ITT London and Edinburgh where he became marketing director in 1988. In 1991, Peter joined Economic Insurance and led their return to profitability in 1993. In December 1993, Peter led the management buyout of the Economic that was sold in 1996 to Hiscox plc. He joined Hiscox as group marketing director, a role he held until he left in 1997 to create Towergate Underwriting Group. In 2005, Peter won the Ernst & Young UK Entrepreneur of the Year award. In December 2010, Peter was awarded the CBE for his contribution to business, entrepreneurship and charitable causes.

Mark Hodges, FCCA, MBA
Group Chief Executive Officer

Mark Hodges was appointed chief executive of Towergate Insurance in September 2011. Prior to this Mark was chief executive at Aviva UK which comprises the Life and Pensions and General Insurance businesses in January 2010. He was appointed to the board of Aviva plc as an executive director in June 2008 and was also a member of the Aviva group executive committee.

Previously Mark was chief executive of Aviva UK Life, formerly known as Norwich Union Life, and held this role since April 2006. Prior to that he held the position of Managing Director of Aviva UK Insurance from 2005 to 2006 and Finance Director of Aviva UK Insurance from 1997 to 2005.

Mark is a professionally qualified accountant (FCCA) and has an MBA from Cranfield Business School.

Ian Patrick, BA, CA
Group Chief Finance Officer

Ian was appointed Group Finance Director of Towergate in 2006. Ian trained as a chartered accountant with BDO Binder Hamlyn qualifying in 1991. He has since held a number of senior finance positions with Croft Oil & Gas Plc and Mitsui Bussan Commodities before joining Highway Insurance Holdings plc in 1999 and becoming Group Finance Director in 2002. Following the successful turnaround of the business Ian was promoted to Group Finance & Operations Director in 2005.

Humphrey Battcock, CA, MBA
Non-executive Director

Humphrey joined Advent in 1994 and has 23 years of private equity experience. Prior to joining Advent, Humphrey spent nine years as a partner with Trinity Capital Partners, a U.K. venture capital and buyout firm. From 1976 to 1983, he worked for Coopers & Lybrand, in London, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant, and New York.

Andy Homer, FCII
Non-executive Director

Andy was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Towergate Insurance in 2005. He joined Towergate in 2002 as Chief Executive Officer of the Folgate Partnership. Andy has worked in the insurance business since 1971. His career includes appointments as General Manager of Commercial Union UK (now part of Norwich Union) and CEO of Axa Insurance UK. Between 1998 and 2001 he was Chairman of the Motor Insurance Bureau and was President of the Chartered Insurance Institute in 2002/3. In January 2012 Andy was appointed Chairman of British Insurance Brokers' Association.

Philip Moore
Non-executive Director*

Philip has around 30 years industry experience and joins LV= from the Pensions Corporation where he was group finance partner and chief risk officer. Prior to this he was group finance director and latterly group chief executive at Friends Provident, where he was a non executive director of F&C Asset Management. He has previously held roles at AMP, NPI and PricewaterhouseCoopers both in London and Hong Kong.

* Subject to FSA approval

Nick Rose, MA
Non-executive Director

Nick joined Advent in 2005 from Bain and Company where he worked in their private equity practice on both pre and post acquisition work. Nick’s sector focus at Advent is on business and financial services, with emphasis on speciality finance, insurance, asset management and outsourcing companies.

James Strachan
Non-executive Director and Chairman of the Group Risk Committee

James Strachan is a Non-Executive Director of the Financial Services Authority, JPMorgan Asian Investment plc, Welsh Water Limited, Sarasin and Partners LLP and Social Finance Limited. He is also Senior Visiting Fellow in risk and regulation at LSE, and having been Chairman, is now Vice President of the charity, RNID. Previous roles include Chairman of the Audit Commission, a Member of the Court of Directors of the Bank of England and Non-Executive Director of Legal and General plc, Care UK plc, Ofgem and the DTI Business and Energy Boards. He started his career as a commercial banker at Chase Manhattan and then became an investment banker at Merrill Lynch, where he was Managing Director and a Board member of Merrill Lynch International.

Truett Tate
Non-executive Director

Joined Lloyds Banking Group in 2003 as Managing Director, Corporate Banking before being appointed to the Board in 2004. Served with Citigroup from 1972 to 1999, where he held a number of senior and general management appointments in the USA, South America, Asia and Europe. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of eCharge Corporation from 1999 to 2001 and co-founder and Vice Chairman of the Board of Chase Cost Management Inc from 1996 to 2003. He is a Non-Executive Director of British American Business Inc. and AFME. Chairman of Arora Holdings and a Director of Business in the Community and a Director and Trustee of In Kind Direct.

Tim Johnson, MBA, BSc (Hons), ACII, Chartered Insurance Broker
Chief Executive Officer, Paymentshield

Tim began his insurance career with Royal Insurance, before moving into the broking arena with Aon in 1994. Following periods in the Corporate and Sports and Events divisions he took up the post of CEO of Aon’s Affinity and SME business.He joined Towergate as CEO in 2003, and was involved in a number of acquisitions which saw the business grow rapidly. On the merger of Towergate and Folgate in 2005, Johnson formulated a plan for a new business, Cullum Capital Ventures, with Peter Cullum. CCV made 36 acquisitions in less than 3 years, which saw the business grow from start up to the UK’s third largest independently owned intermediary, a growth curve matched only by Towergate.

In June 2009 he took up the role of CEO of Paymentshield, one of Towergate’s most significant acquisitions to date and the dominant player in the mortgage broker general insurance market place.

Clive Nathan, BA, ACII
Chief Executive Officer - Underwriting

Clive Nathan was appointed as Chief Executive Officer Underwriting in 2006. Clive began his career in 1987 as a graduate entrant with Commercial Union. His roles with CU included Marketing Executive, Development Manager and National Broker Manager. Clive joined AXA in 1999 as National Broker Director and was involved in the acquisition of GRE which resulted in him becoming Regional Director. He joined Towergate in 2003 as Regional Managing Director and was promoted to Divisional Managing Director with responsibility for both Retail and Underwriting businesses in 2005. Clive is a member of the CII Underwriting Faculty and a mentor to the CII New Generation Claims Group.

Lucinda Charles-Jones, BA (Hons), MCIPD
Group HR Director

Lucinda was appointed Group HR Director in October 2011, joining from AXA where she held the role of Interim Group HR Director for AXA UK/Ireland Group. She has many years of senior management board experience including HR Director roles at Barclays Bank Plc, RAC Plc and Lex Vehicle Leasing Ltd, and more recently spent three years as Group HR Director at Hays Plc.

Mike Newman
Chief Information Officer

Mike Newman was appointed Chief Information Officer in 2010, having previously held the role of IT Director. Mike joined Towergate from Aon in 2004 and previously held a variety of IT and change management roles in Financial Services companies over the last 25 years.

Tim Philip, B.Comm. ACA
Finance Director

Tim joined The Folgate Partnership as Group Finance Director at the time of Folgate’s launch in 2002 and became Finance Director of Towergate when the two groups merged in 2005. He joined Coopers and Lybrand in 1985 spending six years with Coopers in Australia, before transferring to the UK in January 1991. In 1999 Tim joined Heath Group and in 2000 he joined Benfield Group as Finance Director of a newly formed subsidiary company. Tim is a qualified chartered accountant.

Michael Rea, LLB, FCA
Chief Executive Officer - Retail

Following a career with Price Waterhouse, Michael has held a number of senior corporate finance and finance director roles in the insurance industry, notably at Prudential, Churchill and NIG. He moved into general management with NIG in 2005 as Head of UK Operations, and joined the Towergate group in 2008 as Chief Operating Officer of the Underwriting Division. Michael took over as CEO of CCV in September 2009. In October 2011, Michael was appointed CEO of Towergate Retail Division.

Lisa Siggery, ACMA
Group Risk Officer

Lisa was appointed as Group Risk Officer in November 2011. She has held senior positions at leading insurers including IAG UK, where she headed the Risk & Compliance function in addition to Directing the Solvency II programme; previously at Groupama Insurances, Aviva, CGU and Commercial Union. Lisa has experience in risk management, governance, internal audit, compliance and Solvency II.