Aviva chairman Sir Adrian Montague to exit

Chairman since 2015

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Sir Adrian Montague will retire as Aviva chairman later this year once the company board appoints a successor.

Montague joined the firm as a non-executive director in 2013 and became chairman in 2015. He is currently also the chairman of The Manchester Airports Group and Cadent Gas and is a trustee of the Commonwealth War Graves Foundations and chairman of TheCityUK advisory council. Montague was also a former Anglian Water Group chairman and deputy-chairman of Network Rail. He also held the role of chief executive the Treasury Taskforce and was formerly a partner at law firm, Linklaters. Aviva senior independent director George Culmer said: "On behalf of the board, I would like to express ...

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