IFG Group announce change to Board of Directors
Date: 02-09-2004
Source: IFG Group plc
IFG is pleased to announce the following changes, each of which are effective 1 October 2004:-
- the appointment of Mr Mark Bogard as Chief Executive – UK IFA and Actuarial Operations and as an Executive Director of IFG;
- the appointment of Mr Mark Bourke, the Group’s Finance Director as Deputy Chief Executive; and
- the resignation of Mr Paul Gardner-Bougaard as a Director of IFG, in order to allow him focus on the business of Berkeley Jacobs Financial Services, the group’s UK based pension release business.
Mark Bogard is aged 42 and will assume responsibility for IFG life, pensions and actuarial operations in the UK. He has an MA from Cambridge University and completed his articles at Slaughter & May and then worked for Schroders in investment banking and on group strategy. He subsequently ran Barclays UK and Offshore funds business before leaving to lead the building of Moneyextra, which was sold to The Bank of Ireland in 2000. Moneyextra was merged with Willis National
and then Chase de Vere Investments, both leading UK IFAs, and he was managing director of the resultant business which focuses on private client advice, employee benefits advice and mortgage broking.
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