Our staff are incredibly important to us. We invest in them to ensure that they are able to give you the correct information you need and the best possible service. Last year we invested over 3,000 hours in staff training.
The Management Comittee brings a broad spread of experience and professional qualifications to Suffolk Life. They are open and accessible to our customers, and you can find more about them below.
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David Hobbs - Managing Director
David has a strong background in the pension and retirement business, with 23 years experience within the Legal & General group.
He brings a wealth of experience in dealing with various sectors of the market, including the High Net Worth, and is an Associate of the Pensions Management Institute. |
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Chris Jones - Proposition & Marketing Director
Chris is a Chartered Taxation Adviser who has worked in SIPPs since 1990. He acted as consultant to a range of financial service companies before joining the senior management team of Suffolk Life full time in January 2005. Chris has overseen the development of several key strategic partnerships, and made a significant contribution during the process of transferring ownership of the company to Legal and General.
In 2010 Chris gained responsibility for marketing in the role of Proposition & Marketing Director. |
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Renata Chester - Finance Director
Renata became Finance Director in July 2011, having been IT & Change Director since early 2008. Whilst maternity leave took up much of her 2010, Renata has been with Suffolk Life since 1997 and was instrumental in redesigning our IT platform which is the core of all our business processing.
She has a joint honours degree in Accountancy and Statistics, and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1995. She has been Committee Member of the Association of Member-Directed Pension Schemes and speaks regularly at conferences on SIPP technical matters. |
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Will Self - Product and Operations Director
Upon completing his degree in Oceanography at Southampton University, during which he spent time working in Canada for the Institute of Ocean Sciences, he joined Suffolk Life in 2003. Initially he headed up an administration team before joining the Corporate Development team where he was instrumental in launching several joint ventures with multi-national insurers.
In 2008 Will became Head of Client services, managing 70 staff, before becoming Director of Operations in 2010. He completed his MBA (Executive Master of Business Administration) at Cranfield School of Management at the same time and is a member of the Chartered Management Institute. |
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Dominic Savage - Property Director
Dominic joined Suffolk Life as Property Director in January 2012. He studied Biology at Newcastle University before completing the common professional examination at the College of Law.
He qualified as a solicitor and worked in the commerical property departments of Nabarro LLP and Charles Russell LLP in the City of London before joining a major outsourcing company as Head of Property. |
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Hugh May - IT and Change Director
Having been a Non Executive Director on the Suffolk Life Board for five years prior to the acquisition of the business by Legal & General, Hugh returned in January 2010 as IT & Change Director. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, he has worked in the financial services sector for nearly 30 years, holding Board-level appointments in regulated firms for a number of these.
Immediately prior to rejoining Suffolk Life, Hugh worked in retail and major retail group supervision at the Financial Services Authority. |
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