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Patrick O'Sullivan (64)
Chairman
Patrick O'Sullivan joined the Board as Chairman on 1 January 2010. He also chairs the Nomination Committee. From 2007 until 2009, he was Vice Chairman of Zurich Financial Services, where he had specific responsibility for its international businesses including those in South Africa. He had previously held roles at Zurich as Group Finance Director and CEO, General Insurance and Banking, of its UKISA division. Qualified as a chartered accountant, his prior experience includes positions at Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Financial Guaranty Insurance Company (a subsidiary of GE Capital), Barclays/BZW and Eagle Star Insurance Company. He is also the Chairman of the Shareholder Executive in the UK, a non-executive director of Man Group plc and Deputy Governor Bank of Ireland.
Julian Roberts (55)
Group Chief Executive
Julian Roberts has been Group Chief Executive of Old Mutual plc since September 2008. He is also a member of the Nomination Committee and a non-executive Director of Nedbank Group Limited, Nedbank Limited and Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (South Africa) Limited. He joined Old Mutual in August 2000 as Group Finance Director, moving on to become CEO of Skandia following its purchase by Old Mutual in February 2006. Prior to joining Old Mutual, he was Group Finance Director of Sun Life & Provincial Holdings plc and, before that, Chief Financial Officer of Aon UK Holdings Limited.
Philip Broadley (52)
Group Finance Director
Philip Broadley has been Group Finance Director since November 2008. He is also a member of the Board Risk Committee and a non-executive director of Old Mutual (US) Holdings Inc, the parent company of US Asset Management. He was previously Group Finance Director of Prudential plc from May 2000 until March 2008. Prior to joining Prudential, he was a partner in Arthur Andersen from 1993 to 2000. He has been Chairman of the 100 Group of Finance Directors, a founding member and trustee of the CFO Forum of European Insurance Company Finance Directors, and a member of the IASB's Insurance Working Group. He is a member of the Code Committee of the UK Takeover Panel and of the Oxford University Audit and Scrutiny Committee.
Mike Arnold (65)
Independent non-executive director
Mike Arnold has been an independent non-executive director of the Company since September 2009 and chairs the Board Risk Committee. He is also a member of the Group Audit and Nomination Committees. Mike is a qualified actuary and was formerly Principal Consulting Actuary and Head of Life practice at the consulting actuarial firm Milliman from 2002 to 2009. Prior to that, he had been the senior partner at the practice from 1995, having joined one of its predecessor organisations as a recently qualified actuary in 1971. He is a past Member of Council and Vice Chairman of the Institute of Actuaries, past Chairman of the International Association of Consulting Actuaries and past member of the Board of Actuarial Standards. Mike is also a non-executive director of Financial Information Technology Limited and Scottish Equitable Policyholders Trust Limited.
Alan Gillespie (62)
Senior Independent Director
Alan has been Senior Independent Director since May 2011, having joined the Board as a independent non-executive director in November 2010. He is also a memeber of the Group Audit, Nomination and Remuneration Committees. He joined Goldman Sachs in New York in 1986 and was made a partner of the firm in 1990, with responsibility for corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions in the UK and Ireland. He jointly led the firm's financial services practice in Europe and in 1996 established Goldman Sachs' presence in South Africa. After retiring from Goldman Sachs in 1999, he became Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Development Corporation in the UK. In 2001 he became Chairman of Ulster Bank, a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotland plc. He is also currently Senior Independent Director of United Business Media plc and Chairman of the Economic & Social Research Council and of the International Finance Facility for Immunization (IFFIm).
Danuta Gray (54)
Independent non-executive director
Danuta Gray has been a Board member from 1 March 2013. She will also become a member of the Group Audit, Nomination and Remuneration Committees. Danuta was Chairman of Telefónica O2 in Ireland until December 2012, having previously been its Chief Executive from 2001 to 2010. She remains a consultant to Telefónica in Germany. Prior to moving to Ireland, she was a Senior Vice President for BT Europe in Germany and she has experience in sales, marketing, customer service and technology and in leading and changing large businesses. Danuta is a non-executive director, chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of Aer Lingus plc and also a non-executive director and member of the Remuneration Committee of Paddy Power PLC. She previously served for seven years on the board of Irish Life and Permanent plc and was also a director of Business in the Community.
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Reuel Khoza (63)
Non-executive director
Reuel Khoza has been a non-executive director of the Company since January 2006 and Chairman of Nedbank Group since May 2006. He is also a member of the Board Risk and Nomination Committees. He is Chairman of Aka Capital, which 25% is owned by Old Mutual (South Africa) and the single largest participant in Nedbank's Corporate Client Scheme established as part of its BEE ownership arrangements. Reuel is also a non-executive director of Nampak Limited, Protea Hospitality Holdings Limited and Corobrik (Pty) Limited. His previous appointments include Chairmanship of Eskom Holdings Limited and non-executive directorships of Glaxo Wellcome SA, IBM SA, Vodacom, the JSE, JCI, Standard Bank Group and Liberty Life. He is currently a Fellow and President of the Institute of Directors of South Africa.
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Roger Marshall (64)
Independent non-executive director
Roger Marshall was appointed as an independent non-executive director of the Company on 5 August 2010 and became Chairman of the Group Audit Committee at the end of that month. He is also a member of the Board Risk and Nomination Committees. He was formerly an audit partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he led the audit of a number of major groups, including Zurich Financial Services and Lloyds TSB. Outside appointments included six years as a member of the Accounting Standards Board. He is currently Interim Chairman of the Accounting Council, a Director of the Financial Reporting Council and a non-executive director of Genworth Financial's European insurance companies.
Bongani Nqwababa (47)
Independent non-executive director
Bongani Nqwababa has been an independent non-executive director of the Company since April 2007. He is also a member of the Group Audit, Nomination and Remuneration Committees. He has been Chief Financial Officer of the South African mining group, Anglo Platinum Limited, since 2009, having previously been Finance Director of the South African electricity utility group, Eskom Holdings Limited, from 2004. Prior to joining Eskom, Bongani had been Treasurer and CFO of Shell Southern Africa. He is currently Chairman of the South African Revenue Services (Receiver of Revenue) Audit Committee.
Nku Nyembezi-Heita (53)
Independent Non-executive director
Nku has been an independent non-executive director of the Company since March 2012. She will also become a member of the Board Risk and Nomination Committees. She was formally a non-executive director of Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (South Africa) Limited, a position she relinquised upon taking up her role at plc level. She is the Chief Executive Officer of ArcelorMittal South Africa, the largest steel producer on the African continent and a subsidiary of the ArcelorMittal Group, which in turn is the largest steel producer in the world. Prior to this, Nkuo served as the Chief Officer of Mergers & Acquisitions for the Vodacom Group and before that, she was Chief Executive Officer of Alliance Capital, then local subsidiary of the New York-based global investment management company. Nku is also a non-executive director of the JSE Securities Exchange.
