Barry O'Dwyer
Group Chief Executive Officer
Barry O’Dwyer is an actuary with extensive financial services experience in the UK and Ireland. He began his career at Standard Life in 1988, when it was a mutual. In 2008, he moved to HBOS and shortly afterwards to Prudential UK & Europe, where he became Deputy Chief Executive Officer. He returned to Standard Life in 2013, where he became Chief Executive Officer of Standard Life’s platform, pensions and savings businesses. He joined the Board of Standard Life plc in 2017. Following Standard Life plc’s merger with Aberdeen Asset Management, he was the head of Standard Life Aberdeen’s UK business, before joining Royal London in 2019.
Daniel Cazeaux
Group Chief Financial Officer
Daniel Cazeaux is a chartered accountant. From 2008 to 2020, he was a partner at KPMG in the UK, where he led global client teams delivering audit services to UK and global insurance companies, as well as advising on finance change programmes and transactions. In his time at KPMG he also performed executive secondment roles into finance functions of large UK insurers, which enabled him to develop deep-rooted specialist and commercial expertise in the financial services industry. He currently serves as a director of Royal London Insurance Designated Activity Company, Royal London’s business in Ireland.
Noel Freeley
Chief Executive Officer Royal London Insurance DAC
Noel Freeley is responsible for devising and executing the Group’s strategy in the Ireland business. Prior to this, he was a board member for a number of Royal London’s subsidiary companies in the UK. Before joining Royal London, he headed up the pensions and protection business at Co-operative Insurance and previously performed roles for Friends Provident in the UK and Asia.
Hans Georgeson
Chief Executive Officer Royal London Asset Management
Hans Georgeson started his financial services career in 1996 as an equity analyst at BZW Investment Management, the asset management arm of Barclays, and progressed through a number of executive roles at Barclays Wealth, Gerrard Investment Management and Barclays Stockbrokers. Before joining Royal London, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Architas, AXA’s open architecture asset management business.
Peter Josse
Group Chief Operating Officer
Peter Josse joined Royal London as Group Chief Operating Officer on 4 March 2024, subject to regulatory approval. Before this, he was Chief Information Officer for Barclays UK. He has over 25 years’ experience in the financial services industry, and, over his career, he has established a track record of delivering great customer outcomes and colleague experience enabled by technology.
Mehdi Kadhim
Group Chief Transformation Officer
Mehdi Kadhim is responsible for change, procurement and workplace. He has worked in financial services for over 20 years and joined Royal London from Santander UK where he was Chief Executive Officer of the UK’s asset management business. Prior to that, he held a number of other senior roles at Santander spanning retail banking, wealth management and global markets.
Jo Kite
Chief Customer Officer
Jo Kite is an actuary and has extensive experience in financial services across Customer Service, Marketing, Proposition and Finance. She started her career at Aviva, where she held senior positions in the UK and the Netherlands. She then spent 12 years at Standard Life leading its platform and workplace businesses. Prior to joining Royal London, she was Managing Director at WTW, leading its Master Trust business and Scottish Consultancy arm.
Tracey Kneller
Group Chief People Officer
Tracey Kneller joined Royal London in 2020 and has considerable industry and technical expertise, gained across multiple sectors including technology, FMCG and financial services, working for listed and privately-owned companies. Prior to joining Royal London, she was Chief People Officer at The Co-operative Bank where, as a member of the Executive Committee, she was part of the team that managed the separation from the Co-operative Group and a recapitalisation in 2017.
Susie Logan
Group Chief Marketing Officer
Prior to joining Royal London, Susie Logan was Brand and Marketing Director at Standard Life where she led a significant transformation of marketing capabilities. She has a wealth of knowledge in marketing in the financial services sector with over 25 years’ experience, including positions held at Scottish Widows, Zurich Life and Bank of Ireland Mortgages.
Dr James McCourt
Group Chief Risk Officer
Dr James McCourt is responsible for defining and executing the Group’s risk management strategy, leading our relationship with the regulators and managing the Internal Model. With over 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry, he has held senior roles in banking, private equity, asset management, pensions and insurance. Since joining Royal London, he has held roles as Chief Risk Officer for Royal London Asset Management, Group Chief Conduct Officer and Group Investment Director.
Julie Scott
Chief Commercial Officer
Julie Scott has 30 years’ experience in banking, insurance and wealth management. Prior to joining Royal London, she was Chief Executive Officer of 1825 Financial Planning & Advice. She has worked across multiple brands and geographic territories with a focus on improving customer outcomes and experience. She has held senior positions for RBS, NatWest, Citizens Bank and Standard Life Aberdeen.
Julie Whitehead
Group General Counsel
Julie Whitehead joined Royal London from AXA where she held a variety of leadership roles, including UK Group Regulatory and Compliance Director and Senior Counsel for AXA UK plc. With more than 25 years’ financial services experience, she is a qualified lawyer and has held legal roles at Geest Plc and AMP UK where she was responsible for providing legal advice to AMP Group, Pearl Assurance, London Life, Henderson Investors and NPI.