PRUDENCE FOUNDATION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Independent Non - Executive Director
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Group Executive Committee
- Global Financial Leader
Anil is a standing attendee of the Audit, Nomination & Governance, Remuneration and Risk Committees and the Responsibility & Sustainability Working Group.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers
Arijit retired as the Managing Director of State Bank of India (SBI) in September 2020 concluding a 40-year career, having joined in 1983. During his career, he held a number of senior positions at the bank, across retail, corporate and international banking, business process re-engineering, IT and risk management. He was Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of SBI Life Insurance Company (a subsidiary of SBI), one of India's leading life insurers, from 2014 until 2018 and took it public in 2017.
Since his retirement from SBI, Arijit has worked as a consultant, including advising the Life Insurance Corporation of India on its 2022 IPO.
Arijit is a certified associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers. He holds a Master's Degree in History and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the University of Delhi.
Job Titles:
- Chartered Accountant
- Member of the Group Executive Committee
- Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
Avnish is a standing attendee of the Board and of the Risk and Audit Committees.
Avnish is a Chartered Accountant who worked with PwC in India and Ernst & Young in Dubai.
Job Titles:
- Chartered Accountant
- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Group Executive Committee
- Chief Financial Officer of Prudential
Ben is a standing attendee of the Board and of the Audit and Risk Committees.
Ben was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Prudential in May 2023. As CFO, he is responsible for managing the Finance function, including all aspects of financial reporting and planning such as performance management including planning and forecasting, financial reporting, capital management and investment management as well as the Group Actuarial function, strategy, investor relations and sustainability.
Ben joined Prudential in 1997 and has held various leadership roles including CFO, Insurance and Asset Management, regional CFO of Prudential Asia, CFO of Eastspring Investments, the Group's asset management business, CFO of Prudential Hong Kong's Life and General Insurance businesses and Chief Accountant of Prudential Asia.
Ben is a Chartered Accountant (The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) and holds a Bachelor's degree from The London School of Economics.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Group Executive Committee
- CEO, Eastspring Investments Group
Having served as Chief Investment Officer of Eastspring since May 2022, Bill was appointed interim Chief Executive Officer in April 2023, an appointment which was made permanent in September 2023.
As CEO of Eastspring Investments, Bill is a member of Eastspring's Board of Directors, chairs the Eastspring Executive Management Committee and has overall responsibility for the management and strategic development of the firm. As CIO since May 2022, Bill spearheads Eastspring's investment platform across equities, fixed income, multi-asset, quantitative and alternatives, overseeing investment strategies and products.
Bill has 30 years of asset management experience and a strong track record in leading investment teams globally. Prior to joining Eastspring as Head of Equities in September 2021, Bill served as the Asia Pacific Chief Investment Officer and Global Chief Investment Officer, Equities at HSBC Global Asset Management.
Bill holds an MBA from Cranfield University, a Doctorate in Laser Physics from Oxford University and a Bachelor's Degree in Physics from Sussex University, UK and Uppsala University, Sweden.
Job Titles:
- Chief Human Resources Officer
- Member of the Group Executive Committee
In her role as Chief Human Resources Officer, Catherine leads Prudential's Group-wide people and culture agenda, to build a high performance organization where great talent is engaged, inspired and developed.
Catherine joined from StarHub, Singapore, where she had been Chief HR Officer since 2018, driving workforce optimisation, culture transformation, talent development and employee engagement. She also chaired the company's Covid-19 task force. Before leading the HR function at StarHub, Catherine held global and regional senior HR leadership roles in LEGO, United Overseas Bank, Dell Inc. in Singapore and Shanghai.
She holds a Bachelor's Degree with Honours in Social Sciences from the National University of Singapore. She served as a Nominations Committee member of Daughters of Tomorrow (Singapore) and was a board member of the Singapore Breast Cancer Foundation.
Job Titles:
- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Independent Non - Executive Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee
Sock Koong served on the Audit Committee from May 2021 until May 2022.
Job Titles:
- Independent Non - Executive Director
Claudia joined the global consultancy firm McKinsey & Partners in 1995 and worked in several senior roles. She was responsible for helping to build the firm's healthcare services and systems sector in Asia Pacific, including working with the Chinese Ministry of Health to help develop their views on China's national healthcare systems. From April 2021 until October 2023, Claudia was also a Nonexecutive Director of Huma Therapeutics Ltd, a global health technology company from March 2021 until October 2023.
Claudia holds a PhD in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland and a Master's Degree in Business Administration from CEMS/ESADE in Barcelona.
Job Titles:
- Chartered Accountant
- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
David is due to retire from the Board at the conclusion of the AGM on 23 May 2024.
David is a Chartered Accountant and spent almost 33 years working with Price Waterhouse and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). During that time he was, amongst other positions, the global leader of PwC's insurance practice, a partner in the UK firm, and the lead audit partner for multinational insurance companies. He also led PwC's insurance and investment management assurance practice in London and the firm's Scottish assurance division. After he retired from PwC, David became a director and Chief Executive Officer of L&F Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries, a professional indemnity captive insurance group which serves the PwC network and its member firms. David retired from this role in June 2019.
David is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and holds a Master's Degree in Economics from the University of Edinburgh.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Group Executive Committee
- Managing Director, Strategic Business Group
Dennis has been CEO of Prudential Singapore since March 2020 and was appointed Managing Director of the Strategic Business Group covering Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam in July 2022. A veteran banker, Dennis has 26 years of experience in consumer banking spanning product development, segment management, marketing and sales and distribution.
Prior to joining Prudential, he was with OCBC Bank for 10 years, seven of which were spent as head of consumer financial services. Dennis spearheaded the growth of OCBC's Premier Banking business in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and China as head of branch and group premier banking. He was also a member of OCBC Bank's management committee. He is president of the Life Insurance Association's Management Committee and a council member at IBF Singapore.
Dennis has completed the Asian Financial Leaders Programme from Temasek Management Services & Singapore Management University, the Investing in Alternative Investments Program at Yale School of Management and the Stanford Executive Program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Finance from Indiana University.
Job Titles:
- Independent Non - Executive Director
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Audit Committee
- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Independent Non - Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee
- Member of the UBS Board
Officer from 2003 to 2008, having previously been Chief Administrative Officer. As part of her role at DBS Group, Jeanette held Non-executive Director positions with ASEAN Finance Corporation, TMB Bank and the Bank of the Philippine Islands. Jeanette began her career in Singapore at Banque Paribas before moving to Citibank and then J.P. Morgan in Singapore, where she held senior pan-Asian roles. She has previously served as a Nonexecutive Director of Fullerton Fund Management Ltd and Neptune Orient Lines Limited.
From 2008 to 2019, Jeanette led DBS Group's institutional banking business, where she was responsible for corporate banking, global transaction services, strategic advisory, and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to this, she was the DBS Group's Chief Financial
Jeanette is a member of the UBS Board, where she has served as a member of the audit committee since 2019.
Jeanette holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore.
Job Titles:
- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Senior Independent Director and Chair of the Risk Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Group Executive Committee
- Chairman of the Board of Prudential Hong Kong Limited
- Managing Director of the Strategic Business Group
- Managing Director, Strategic Business Group
Lilian is Managing Director of the Strategic Business Group, responsible for the insurance operations covering the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan; and the Group-wide customer, distribution and marketing strategy across the network of insurance businesses.
Lilian is also the Chair of the Board of Prudential Hong Kong Limited and a Director at CITIC Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited. Lilian has been part of the Prudential family for over 25 years and has held a range of leadership roles, including Chief Financial Officer of Prudential Hong Kong, Chief Operating Officer, Insurance and Chief Executive, Insurance of Prudential Corporation Asia.
Job Titles:
- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Executive Chairman, Asia Pacific at KKR Asia Limited
Ming served on the Risk Committee from May 2021 until May 2022.
Ming is the Executive Chairman, Asia Pacific at KKR Asia Limited and a partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. He also serves as a member of the KKR Asian Private Equity Investment Committee and the KRR Asian Portfolio Management Committee. Since 2018 he has played an important role in KKR's Asia growth and expansion. He has served as a member of the Asia Infrastructure Investment Committee and Asia Real Estate Investment Committee.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Chairman of the Board and Chair of the Nomination & Governance
Shriti is a standing attendee of the Audit, Risk and Remuneration Committees and the Responsibility & Sustainability Working Group. She will join the Remuneration Committee from May 2024.
Shriti was Chair of Santander UK Group Holdings, Senior Independent Director at BHP and a Non-executive Director of Astra Zeneca. Between 2009 and 2014, she undertook a wide range of assignments, such as advising the South Korean Chair of the G20, two European countries on the Eurozone and banking crisis, the African Development Bank on infrastructure financing and a number of global investors and sovereign wealth funds on strategy and economic and market developments.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Group Executive Committee
- Managing Director of the Strategic Business Group
- Managing Director, Strategic Business Group
- Prudential As Group Strategic Transformation Officer
Solmaz is Managing Director of the Strategic Business Group covering India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and Africa.
He is also accountable for the Group's Digital and Technology functions and is driving the business transformation, accelerating our customer delivery through multi-channel models and strengthening our customer engagement platforms, including Pulse.
Solmaz joined Prudential as Group Strategic Transformation Officer in May 2022, with 25 years' experience leading business change and growth in the financial services industry. His most recent role before joining Prudential was as regional Chief Executive Officer of Asia-Pacific at Allianz.
Solmaz holds a DiplomÖkonom, Banking and Economics from the University of Duisburg-Essen.
As the Company Secretary, Tom is a trusted adviser to the Board and plays an important role in the governance and administration of Prudential. Before his appointment as Company Secretary, Tom held a number of senior roles at Prudential, including Head of Compliance, Business Partners and prior to that, Group Litigation & Regulatory Counsel.
Tom is a qualified solicitor and is admitted to practise in England and Wales. Before joining Prudential, he practised law at Herbert Smith LLP, between 2002 and 2012, which included secondments to Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland.