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Nine months after Brett Williams left Cofunds, the platform has announced a new CEO...

Cofunds has appointed Openwork CEO Martin Davis as chief executive. Davis, who will join in the summer, is the long-term replacement for Brett Williams, who quit the platform in July last year with then-chairman Charlie Eppinger taking on the chief executive role on an interim basis. Meanwhile, Kate Avery, currently non-executive chair of Openwork, has been named temporary executive chair to oversee the formal process for securing Davis's replacement. Anne Gunther, the former Standard Life Bank chief executive, will take over as head of troubled building society Norwich & Peterbourgh ...

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