Reliance Mutual restructures management team

Kent based Reliance Mutual Insurance Society Limited (Reliance Mutual) has today announced a reorganisation of its senior management team to drive further growth in its core areas of business.

Mark Goodale, Reliance Mutual’s Chief Executive said,   “The senior management team has been aligned to give us specific focus on our strategy going forward whilst maintaining our flat management structure to ensure the decision making process remains responsive to market opportunities.”The new senior management team, led by Chief Executive, Mark Goodale is as follows:

Chris Lerpiniere joins as Head of Operations, responsible for client and technical services, and IT.   Prior to joining Reliance Mutual, Chris held similar senior management positions at Fidelity and GAN Life and Pensions.

Roger Eastwood joins as Head of Risk and Corporate Governance, responsible for managing all compliance, risk and legal services.   Roger was previously Head of Business Risk at AMP (formerly NPI) and more recently a consultant to a number of financial services providers.

Philip Bowden becomes Head of Strategy Implementation, with specific responsibility of programme managing all future major projects including acquisitions and development of white label products.

Completing the management team are Tim Birse, Cara Whatford and Roger Cuming who remain Actuary, Financial Controller and Head of Investments respectively.

Reliance Mutual is particularly interested in the acquisition of closed books of life and pensions policies, providing white label products, developing Credit Life business, and continuing to provide smoker annuity policies via the intermediary market.

Last Edited: February 07, 2008