Board Members

Dennis Holt was appointed as a non-executive director of Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited on 20 September 2006.

Dennis is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and worked for Lloyds TSB plc for over 30 years, recently as the Main Board Executive Director accountable for the UK Retail Bank. In 2001 he became Group Chief Executive of AXA UK plc and a member of the global AXA Executive Committee and performed these roles until he retired in 2006.

Dennis is deputy chairman of the Bank of Ireland, having previously been Vice-Chairman of the Association of British Insurers and Chairman of its General Insurance Council.

Mike Rogers was appointed as a director of Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited and Group Chief Executive on 5 June 2006.

Mike worked for Barclays Bank for 20 years, holding a variety of roles in Business Banking, Wealth Management and Retail Banking. Recently he was Managing Director of Barclays UK Retail Banking.

Mark Austen was appointed as a non-executive director of Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited on 20 September 2006.

Mark is a chartered management accountant and worked for Price Waterhouse and its successor PricewaterhouseCoopers for over 25 years, during which time he became Managing Partner of the Global Financial Services Consulting Practice and a Member of the Global Board.

With the acquisition of PricewaterhouseCoopers financial services consulting practice by IBM in 2002, he joined that company as Senior Executive, Financial Services Practice of Business Consulting Services until he resigned in 2005. Mark is a non-executive director of Standard Bank plc, Temenos Group AG and Smartstream Technologies Ltd.

Mark chairs the Risk Committee.

Richard Rowney joined LV= in February 2007 and was appointed to the Board in August 2007.

Richard worked for Barclays Bank for 14 years and was Risk Director of Small Business, Chief Operating Officer of Premier Banking and Integration Director for the Woolwich and Barclays retail bank.

Ian Reynolds is an actuary and chartered director and was appointed as a non-executive director of Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited on 3 January 2008.

Ian Reynolds has had many years' experience in the insurance industry, including being a director of HSBC Life, Marks & Spencer Life Assurance and Equitable Life. He's also been an insurance adviser to the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the Council of the Institute of Actuaries.

Ian chairs the Audit Committee.

John Edwards was appointed as a non-executive director of Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited on 20 October 2010.

John has spent his entire career in the Insurance and Investment industry. His former senior executive roles include acting as CEO of Clerical Medical Investment Group, CEO of HBOS's Insurance and Investment Division and CEO of International Financial Services within Lloyds Banking Group. His previous non-executive directorships include Esure and St James Place Capital.

John chairs the Investment Committee.

Philip Moore joined LV= in October 2010 as Group Finance Director and was appointed to the Board in on 10 November 2010.

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.

Cath Keers was appointed as a non-executive director of Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society on 14 December 2010.

Cath has over twenty years experience in marketing, working at Sky TV, Next and Avon. Her most recent role was a customer director for O2 leading on strategy, marketing and customer service.

She remains a non-executive director on the Telefonica O2 Europe board and is also a non-executive director for the Royal Mail group and The Children's Mutual.

Cath chairs the Remuneration and Nomination Committee.