The Society's Board of Directors

• Martin was appointed to the Board in June 2011 and became Senior Independent Director in 2019 and Chair of Wesleyan Bank in 2013.
• He has more than 30 years of sales, marketing and strategy experience, having worked for The Boots Group in various roles, including Group Director of Business Development. Previous roles include Chief Executive at The Shareholder Executive, Strategy Director at the Home Office and Chief Operating Officer of BP Retail.
• He is a Non-Executive Director of Scout Shops Ltd and Deputy Chair of Nuffield Health.
  

Andrew Neden MA, FCA

Anne Torry BA (Hons) ACII

• Anne joined the Board in January 2019. She is Chair of Wesleyan's With Profits Committee and also on the Remuneration and Nominations Committees.
• She has more than 30 years' experience of insurance, strategic leadership and change working internationally in both the life and savings and general insurance sectors, most recently as CEO of Zurich UK Life.
• Anne is a Non-Executive director at Homeserve Membership and Aon UK Ltd.

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  Linda Wilding
  
  Chair of the Remuneration Committee
  
  
  
  
• Linda joined the Board on 1 June 2019 and was appointed Chair of the Remuneration Committee later in the year

• She has extensive experience in the private equity investment and healthcare sectors and worked in the private equity division of Mercury Asset Management from 1989 to 2001.
• She is currently Chair of the Remuneration Committee with UDG Healthcare plc and a Non-Executive director at Electra plc and BMO Commercial Property Trust plc.

Ian McCaig

Non Executive Director

• Ian joined the Board on 30 September 2019 and was appointed to the Society's Risk Committee. He joined the Board of Wesleyan Unit Trust Managers in 2019.
• He has worked across a number of sectors, most recently as CEO of First Utility Ltd. He led the company through several years of successful transformation and significant growth before its acquisition by Shell at the end of 2017. Prior to that Ian was CEO of lastminute.com.
• Ian also serves on the Boards of M-Kopa Ltd, Seedrs Ltd, English Heritage and Festicket, of which he is Chair.
  

• Philip joined the Board in October 2020 and has almost 40 years' experience within financial services.
• Until his retirement in 2017, Philip was Group Finance Director for LV=. Prior to this, Philip held a number of roles, including Chief Finance Officer and then Chief Executive Officer at Friends Provident plc. Philip also spent nine years with PwC, where he developed its life actuarial business in the UK.
• Since his retirement, Philip has joined the Boards of Scandinavia's third largest non-life insurance company Codan A/S, where he chairs the Audit and Risk Committee.