Novia poaches Skandia staff for Aegon project

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Novia has poached five staff from Skandia to work on its new project with Aegon.

The wrap has raided key personnel from Skandia to work on the recently announced programme with Aegon which will see the insurer launch two Novia-powered platform propositions later in the year. Alison Sharpe, business architect for Skandia Investment Solutions, joins Novia in the summer as business architect whilst Matt Roblyn, currently working at Skandia as part of Old Mutual Technical Support, joins Bill Vasilieff's outfit as IT manager at the end of April. Andy Ewell also joins Novia soon to work on the testing and delivery of the Aegon platform after recently leaving Skandia, wh...

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