Vitality's Hilary Banks to join Guardian amid exec changes

Andy Peters to step down

Adam Saville
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Distribution director Andy Peters to leave and Jacqui Gillies joins executive committee

Vitality's divisional director, Hilary Banks, is to join Guardian Financial Services as sales director when distribution director Andy Peters steps down later this year. Meanwhile, marketing and proposition director Jacqui Gillies has been appointed to the insurer's executive committee. Both roles, which come into effect when Peters leaves in December, will report to CEO Katya Maclean. Andy Peters has spent four years as distribution director and was instrumental in the provider's launch in 2018, responsible for building the team and for setting up Guardian's major strategic distribut...

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