Cirencester Friendly drives transformation with director appointments

Ben Howe and John Underwood take on roles

Hemma Visavadia
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Cirencester Friendly has announced Ben Howe as its director of strategy and transformation and the promotion of John Underwood to director of technology.

Howe, who has worked at the mutual society for the past three years, will aim to deliver a portfolio of transformation and change in his new role. Underwood will be responsible for the IT infrastructure and telephony, cloud, solution architecture, application development and support, data and analytics, cyber security and business analysis and testing. He was previously head of information technology at the provider and has worked at St James's Place, Capita and Legal & General. The new appointments follow Cirencester's recent digital transformation after moving onto iPipeline's SS...

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