Richard Rowney

Richard is currently Group CEO of James Hay Partnership a leading retirement and wealth management specialist managing over £27bn of assets. backed by Private Equity specialist Epiris JHP is a consolidator in the platform market and in 2021 announced the acquisition of Nucleus creating the largest independent retirement specialist in the UK. Prior to this Richard was Group Chief Executive of LV= a leading financial services provider and a mutual where he worked as an executive Member of the Board for 13 years. Richard left LV at the end of 2019 following the sale of the General Insurance business to the Allianz Group. Richard has led the business to win the Moneywise Most Trusted Life Insurer award as well as YouGov’s UK’s Most Recommended Insurer. Prior to his position as CEO he had been Managing Director of the group’s Life & Pensions business which he successfully turned into one of the UK’s leading Protection and Retirement specialist companies. Prior to his time at LV= Richard held various COO and Risk roles across Barclays corporate and retail banking. Richard holds a first class degree in Geography from the University of Leeds, an MBA from Henley Business School and has completed the Harvard Management Programme in 2006.