Rushad Abadan

Rushad leads our global Legal and Secretariat function, which covers legal and corporate governance matters across our company. Rushad also advises the Board and executive management team on various strategic, operational, regulatory and risk issues. As part of his responsibilities, Rushad serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of HDFC Asset Management Company Limited, and he previously served on the Board of HDFC Life Insurance Company Limited.

Rushad joined Standard Life plc in January 2016. Before joining he was at The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, where he was Group Deputy General Counsel having previously served in other senior roles since 2006.

Rushad arrived in the UK in 2002 to work in the Corporate Finance practice at Dundas & Wilson (now part of global law firm CMS). He began his career in India working in Mumbai in Arthur Andersen’s Tax practice and latterly in Andersen Legal’s M&A and Private Equity team.