Bright Grey expands sales team to realise ambitious growth plans
Friday, 15 February 2008
Despite forecasts of tough financial markets, Bright Grey, the protection specialist arm of the Royal London Group, has ambitions plans to build on its 16% growth in APE in 2007 by increasing its sales team.
Andy Peters, Distribution Director at Bright Grey says:
"Bright Grey had another extremely successful year last year, growing business in a market that remained flat. A key factor of our success can be attributed to the relationships our sales force has built up with the adviser market.
"It is vital that we continue to invest in developing relationships and in turn increase overall sales of protection and widen our reach in the adviser market. We believe that we have the right people on board to continue our growth success throughout 2008".
The five additions to the regional sales team, which strengthen Bright Grey' s presence throughout the UK are:
Keith Scott, who comes on board as a Regional Sales Manager. Keith has joined from Scottish Widows where he was a Regional Manager. Keith will be looking after a sales team of ten and is based in Solihull, Birmingham.
David Jenkins, joins Bright Grey as a Partnership Manager specialising in Business Protection. David joins from Clydesdale Bank. David has previously worked for Barclays Premier Banking and has also been an IFA. David lives in London and covers the south of England.
Mark Macgregor, joins as a Partnership Manager will cover the Thames Valley region. Prior to moving to Bright Grey Mark was with Mortgages PLC where he was a Business Development Manager.
Maryam Khorsandi has also joined as a Partnership Manager covering the south London area. Before joining Bright Grey, Maryam was a Business Development Manager for Bradford & Bingley' s specialist lending arm, Mortgage Express.
Kieran Grattan moves into a Partnership Consultant role from Bright Grey's desk-based sales team, Bright Connections and will cover the east of Scotland.
For further information please contact:
Bright Grey
Neil Cameron
Tel: 0131 247 1677
neil.Cameron@brightgrey.com
Notes to Editors:
Royal London Group, is a specialist financial service provider. Its businesses focus on those sectors of the market which value premium propositions, operating through a number of brands:
- Scottish Life - UK pensions market
- Bright Grey - UK protection market
- Scottish Life International - offshore investment markets
- RLAM - fund management
- RLAS - life and pensions administration
- Fundsdirect / Ascentric - funds supermarket; Wrap Platform
Royal London is one of the stronger life and pension companies in the UK, and has a strong track record for with-profits performance.
Royal London is the largest mutual life and pensions company in the UK with Group funds under management of £33.1 billion. Group businesses serve around three million customers and employ 2,620 people (figures quoted are as at 31 December 2007).