Novia Financial hires Lucy Bristow as group strategic partnerships director

Newly-created role

Ayesha Venkataraman
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Adviser platform Novia Financial has added Lucy Bristow to the role of strategic partnerships director for the group with immediate effect.

In this new role, Bristow (pictured) will take on responsibility for senior relationships with strategic adviser partnerships across the group, reporting directly to incoming CCO Barry Neilson. Prior to this, Bristow was director and head of customer service at Novia-owned Wealthtime platform, which she joined in 2018 from platform business Embark where she was managing director. "I am absolutely thrilled Lucy has agreed to take on this new group role," said Neilson. "With over 20 years of platform experience in a number of senior operational and commercial roles, she is the ideal can...

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