Aviva has employed Kay Westgarth as its new head of retirement distribution.
Westgarth, who has a 30-year profession in monetary providers, experiences to Aviva Equity Release managing director Matt McGill.
The monetary providers group says her monitor document “consists of establishing and main gross sales groups, spearheading profitable market launches, and driving speedy model progress”.
Westgarth had been Standard Life Home Finance’s gross sales director and performed a key position within the agency’s launch into the middleman market in 2021.
In a considerable profession, she has held senior roles at Lloyds Banking Group, Prudential, and Towergate Group.
McGill says Westgarth “has an necessary position to play as we navigate new alternatives to develop the retirement market, supporting advisers to attain the most effective outcomes for patrons.”
Westgarth provides that she is wanting ahead to main the retirement distribution division and “working with a group that values collaboration and innovation to ship options for advisers and their purchasers.”
