Richard Howells appointed managing director of Sesame

Howells, who will join Sesame Bankhall Group's executive team and report into group managing director Martin Schultheiss (pictured), will take up his new role at the beginning of April. Most recently director of insurance wealth life & pensions at Experian, Howells previously spent seven years at Zurich Financial Services as UK intermediary sales director before leaving in 2015. Other senior roles held over his two decades in financial services include managing director of strategy & development at Bankhall and chief executive of Berkeley Independent Advisers. Schultheiss said: "Richa...