Wesleyan Assurance Society has appointed Andrew D’Arcy as Director of General Insurance. This is a new senior management position which reports to the Director of Customer Services.

It has been created to develop the Society’s general insurance business and expand the product range available to its core professional client base. Wesleyan provides specialist financial advice and services to doctors, dentists, lawyers and teachers.

Andrew joins Wesleyan from RBS where he worked for over seven years in a number of different roles including Managing Director of Group Insurance Services and, most recently, Managing Director, Consumer Finance for Europe.

Martin Howard, Director of Customer Services said, “I’m extremely pleased to welcome Andrew to the team. He has wide-ranging industry experience and a solid grasp of how the general insurance business works.

He also has a proven track record of delivering results in a tight timescale, effecting strategic change and providing tailored solutions. One of Andrew’s first tasks will be to develop a strategy outlining how we can grow our general insurance business.”

Andrew said, “Wesleyan is a unique business and there is enormous potential to develop general insurance services to our niche client markets. We already offer access to some excellent products, such as a commitment to beat any surgery insurance quote by 10%.

However there is potential to introduce new tailored products, which will be of real value to our customers and to grow the business to a significant size.

“What strikes me about Wesleyan is how passionate the Senior Management team are about their work and the drive for improvement. I’m looking forward to being part of that team and using my own drive and passion to develop our general insurance services.”

Andrew has over 17 years experience working in the financial services sector and has also worked for KPMG Consulting and Zurich Financial Services. He is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute.

For more information and interviews please contact:

Bernadette Bogan or Navdeep Bhatti 0121 200 9609
Wesleyan Press Office press@wesleyan.co.uk

Sophie Hull 0207 404 9660
Vanbrugh Communications

Notes to Editors:

Wesleyan Assurance Society is a mutual assurance society, founded in 1841. The core values throughout the organisation are Insight, Performance and Trust.

Wesleyan was named Life Insurer of the Year at the prestigious British Insurance Awards 2008.

Wesleyan offers specialist financial advice to hospital doctors, GPs, dentists, teachers and lawyers, through its principal distribution brands Wesleyan Medical Sickness, Wesleyan for Teachers and Wesleyan for Lawyers.

The Wesleyan Group has in excess of £4 billion of funds under management as at 31 December 2007.

In 2007 Wesleyan Assurance Society won the ifs Financial Innovation Awards for Most Effective Customer Segmentation Strategy.

Wesleyan is one of the UK’s financially strongest mutuals, receiving a ten-out-of- ten rating for four consecutive years in the Cazalet Consulting survey of With Profits offices.

Wesleyan came first for realistic free asset ratio (a significant measure of financial strength for With Profit insurers) in the most recent Ernst & Young review of UK Life Insurance Companies.

Wesleyan is one of only four UK life companies to receive a rating of Excellent for Financial Strength by A.M Best, a global credit rating organisation.