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Aviva plc
Annual report and accounts 2013
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Board of directors continued
Michael Mire
Independent Non-Executive
Director
b.1948
Michael was appointed to
the Board in September 2013
and is a member of the
Governance, Risk and
Nomination Committees.
He is currently the Senior
Independent Director at the
Care Quality Commission (the
UK’s independent hospital and
adult social care regulator).
Michael was a senior partner
at McKinsey & Company
(consultancy) where he worked
for more than 30 years until July
2013. Initially an associate in the
nancial services practice at
McKinsey, he became a partner
in 1984 and senior partner in
1991 and his career focused on
nancial services, retail and
transformation programmes.
He started his career at N M
Rothschild (nancial advisers)
in 1970 as an analyst and then
a foreign exchange dealer and
spent three years seconded to
the Central Policy Review Staff
(now the Number 10 Policy
Unit) to work on major
initiatives including industrial
policy and social security reform.
Michael has extensive
experience of advising
companies on the
implementation of
transformation programmes
and also has an in-depth
understanding of the nancial
services sector.
Bob Stein
Independent Non-Executive
Director
b.1949
Bob was appointed to the
Board in January 2013 and is
a member of the Nomination,
Risk and Remuneration
Committees.
He is currently a
Non-Executive Director and
Chair of the audit committee
of Assurant, Inc (US specialty
insurance) and is a trustee
emeritus of the Board of
trustees of the US Actuarial
Foundation.
Bob spent most of his
working life at Ernst & Young
(accountancy) in the US, where
he held a number of managing
partner roles including actuarial,
insurance and nancial
services practices in the US and
globally, culminating in being
Managing Partner, Global
Actuarial Practice.
Bob brings signicant
accounting and nancial
services experience to
the Board.
Scott Wheway
Independent Non-Executive
Director
b.1966
Scott was appointed to the
Board in December 2007, is
Chairman of the Governance
Committee and is a member
of the Audit and Nomination
Committees.
He is currently a
Non-Executive Director of
Santander UK plc (retail bank).
He was formerly Chief
Executive Ofcer of Best Buy
Europe (retail services), director
of The Boots Company plc (now
known as The Boots Company
Ltd) (pharmacy), Managing
Director and Retail Director of
Boots the Chemist at Alliance
Boots plc and Director of the
British Retail Consortium
(trade association for the
UK retail industry). He has
previously held a number of
senior executive positions
at Tesco plc, including Chief
Executive of Tesco in Japan.
Scott has a wealth of business
experience in the retail sector
and his understanding of
customer priorities has been
greatly benecial in driving
the customer agenda and
excellence in customer service
within the business. He has
chaired the Remuneration
Committee with vigour and
has rebuilt the Group’s standing
with its signicant investors
in relation to the Group’s
remuneration policy. Following
the issues raised at the 2012
Annual General Meeting, he
led an extensive consultation
exercise with the Company’s
major shareholders and a
signicant review of the
Group’s remuneration policies
and practices.