Andrew Birrell

Andrew Birrell was appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director and a Chair of the Audit Committee in December 2019. Andrew is an Executive Director and founder of Universal Partners Limited and an independent non-executive director of Sun Life Financial of Canada (UK), Sanlam Group and Sanlam Life. Andrew has spent most of his career in financial services, including general, life and health insurance, investment management and Banking, primarily as CFO of fast growing, entrepreneurial insurance businesses and has managed large investment portfolios and delivered operational and strategic change.

Previously, Andrew held roles as Chief Financial Officer of the closed fund life assurance consolidation group, Guardian Financial Services Ltd and prior to that was the Group CRO and Chief Actuary of Old Mutual Plc. He also formerly held the role of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Investec Securities Ltd, South Africa. He also recently held roles as non-executive director then Chairman of Assupol Holdings and Assupol Life Limited and as a non-executive director of Investec Life.

Andrew trained as an Actuary and is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.

Andrew chairs the Audit Committee and is a member of the Risk Committee.