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Adrian Grace
Tommy Young
Charles Garthwaite
Clare Bousfield
Duncan Jarrett
Jim Ewing
Our key executives
AEGON UK is led by Adrian Grace, Chief Executive, and a team of well-respected industry figures with a broad sweep of expertise and years of financial experience.
Adrian Grace
Tommy Young
Charles Garthwaite
Clare Bousfield
Duncan Jarrett
Jim Ewing
Adrian Grace
Chief Executive, AEGON UK
- 2011: appointed Chief Executive of AEGON UK
- 2010: appointed Chief Operating Officer – Life and Pensions
- 2009: joined AEGON UK as Group Business Development Director, becoming Executive Director of Sales, Distribution and Development in July 2009
- 2007: appointed Managing Director, SME Banking, HBOS
- 2004: appointed Chief Executive, Barclays Insurance
- 2001: appointed Managing Director, Small Business Division, Sage Group
- 1994: appointed Vice President, Global OEM Relationships, GE Capital
- 1991: appointed National Sales Director, GE Capital
- 1984: appointed Branch Manager, Mercantile Credit
- 1979: joined Leeds Permanent Building Society
Tommy Young
Chief Operating Officer – Life and Pensions
- 2011: appointed Chief Operating Officer (Life and Pensions)
- 2010: appointed Programme Director (Blueprint)
- 2009: joined AEGON as Governance and Control Leader (Distribution)
- 2007: appointed Head of England and Wales (Commercial Banking), Bank of Scotland
- 2006: appointed Director (Home, Motor, Travel), Barclays Insurance
- 2005: appointed Director of Supplier Management (Customer Services/Control), Barclays Insurance
- 2003: appointed Director of Telesales, Sage UK
- 2002: appointed General Manager, Sage CRM, Sage Group plc
- 2002: appointed Services Director, Sage Enterprise Solutions, Sage Group plc
- 2001: appointed General Manager, TAS Software, Sage Group plc
Charles Garthwaite
Chief Risk Officer
- 2010: joined AEGON as Chief Risk Officer in May
- 2008: founded Assent Financial, a buyout and restructuring vehicle targeting the mutual insurer and friendly society sector
- 2007: became Member of the ICAEW – Finance Faculty Risk and Regulation Committee, chairing the Faculty’s Solvency II conference, and member of Solvency II working party
- 2003: joined Resolution plc, becoming Head of Risk and Strategic Change and then Group Risk and Compliance Director in 2005
- 2002: became Head of Risk Management at Equitable Life Assurance Society as part of the rescue team
- 2001: became COO and Founding Member of Globalegacy, providing a commercial solution to the problems of urban poverty, bringing the best venture capital and business expertise to these environments
- 1989: joined Price Waterhouse (subsequently PwC), qualifying as a Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1993. At PwC he specialised in financial services, in particular risk management and corporate finance.
- 1983: graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a BSc honours degree in Environmental Biology
Clare Bousfield
Chief Financial Officer
- 2010: joined AEGON as Chief Financial Officer
- 2009: completed Insead's Advanced Management Programme
- 2007: appointed Head of Group Internal Audit
- 2005: appointed Regional Chief Financial Officer for UK, Ireland & Africa
- 2002: appointed Chief Financial Officer, UK Life & Health
- 2001: joined Swiss Re as Manager, Finance, UK Life & Health
- 1993: became member of Institute of Chartered Accountants, England & Wales
- 1990: joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in London becoming Senior Audit Manager
- 1990: graduated from University of St Andrews with a BSc Honours degree in Statistics
Duncan Jarrett
Sales Director, AEGON UK
- 2009: appointed Sales Director, AEGON UK
- 2006: appointed National Sales Director, AEGON UK
- 2004: appointed Sales Director, Branches
- 2001: appointed Regional Sales Director (London and South)
- 1999: appointed Branch Manager, London
- 1995: appointed Branch Manager, Guildford
- 1993: appointed Sales Development Manager
- 1992: appointed Executive Consultant, London
- 1991: appointed Senior Consultant, London
- 1988: appointed Consultant, London
- 1986: began his career with us as Trainee Consultant, London
- 1984: joined Stewart Wrightson
- 1983: joined Hinton Hill Lloyds Insurance Broker
Jim Ewing
Chief Actuary, AEGON UK
- 2011: appointed Chief Actuary
- 2009: appointed Solvency II Director, Lloyds Banking Group
- 2003: appointed Head of Actuarial Operations, Scottish Widows
- 2003: appointed Chair of Stevenson College Edinburgh,
Chair of the Edinburgh Colleges Partnership Board - 2000: appointed to Senior Manager level in Scottish Widows
- 1992: Joined Scottish Widows as an Actuarial Trainee
