Big Interview: Canada Life's Tim Stoves

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Fiona Murphy meets Tim Stoves, managing director of Canada Life Group Insurance.

FM: Tim what was your background - tell me about your path to becoming managing director of Canada Life Group Insurance? TS: I started my career with Royal & Sun Alliance in Bristol in 2000. I worked within the underwriting team in administration for a year, which was good fun, and then worked my way up into a scheme underwriting position as a ‘Technical Consultant.' That sounded way more important than it was at the time but I enjoyed it nonetheless and I spent two years doing that. Some of the people I worked with then back then are still part of the Canada Life business today ha...

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