Abrdn CFO Jason Windsor named as CEO

Jason Windsor has been in an interim group CEO role

Sahar Nazir
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Abrdn group chief financial officer Jason Windsor, who has been serving as the group’s interim CEO, has today (10 September) been appointed group CEO.

On 24 May 2024, Abrdn revealed that it was in the process of moving to fresh leadership. This followed the strategic repositioning of the company to a specialist asset manager and digitally focused wealth manager. Before joining Abrdn in2023, Windsor was at Persimmon Homes as chief financial officer (CFO). Before that, he was the group CFO at Aviva between 2019 and 2022. He has also worked at Aviva Investors as a director and held the CFO role for Aviva's UK insurance and life businesses. Prior to joining Aviva in 2010, Windsor worked as a managing director at Morgan Stanley within it...

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