The Openwork Partnership adds to senior management team

Three roles added

Ayesha Venkataraman
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The Openwork Partnership has added fresh blood to its senior management team with three appointments to newly-created roles, as well as a new chief risk and compliance officer.

The current chief risk and compliance officer, Paul Mitchener will retire later this year, to be succeeded by Stuart Bowden, who will join the executive team and report directly to Openwork CEO Philip Howell. Bowden joins Openwork from a similar role with Compare the Market. Prior to this role, Bowden spent 14 years with Prudential in a series of senior risk and compliance roles. Mitchener will continue to support Openwork on a consultancy basis and will also become chairman of the trustees of The Openwork Foundation. Andrew Fry has been appointed to the new role of head of adviser...

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