Our Board

Lord Leitch joined the Lloyds TSB board in 2005. He held a number of senior general management appointments in Allied Dunbar, Eagle Star and Threadneedle Asset Management before the merger of Zurich Group and British American Tobacco’s financial services businesses in 1998. Subsequently served as chairman and chief executive officer of Zurich Financial Services UK, Ireland, South Africa and Asia Pacific, until his retirement in 2004.

He was also Chairman of the government’s Review of Skills and deputy chairman of the Commonwealth Education Fund and Chairman of BUPA and Intrinsic Financial Services Non-executive director of Paternoster and United Business Media. He also served as a Former chairman of the National Employment Panel.

Norval Bryson was appointed to the board of Scottish Widows in October 2005 as a non-executive director. From 1974 to 2001 he worked at Scottish Provident, fulfilling various roles including pensions manager and investment manager before becoming a Director in 1991. Norval is married with three adult children.

Qualifications

• University of St Andrews - BSc (Hons) Pure Mathematics 1st Class
• University of Oxford - MSc; D.Phil
• The Open University - BA (Hons) Humanities with Classical Studies 1st Class; Diploma in the European Humanities; Diploma in Classical Studies
• Fellow of Faculty of Actuaries - 1977

Other Directorships currently undertaken are: St Columba’s Hospice - Governor, Chairman of Investment Committee, Member of Audit Committee; Church of Scotland Investment Trust - Trustee.

Toby Strauss joined Lloyds Banking Group as Group Director for Insurance on 3 October 2011. Toby will lead Insurance as a whole and take the role as MD of the Life, Pensions and Investments business.

Toby was UK Life CEO at Aviva and prior to this he was Chief Operating Officer for UK Life, having joined Aviva in 2008.

He previously worked at Charcol, becoming Managing Director before moving to JS & P as Chief Executive. Before to 2002, Toby spent a number of years at McKinsey, specialising in the financial services and technology sectors.

Jeremy Goford was appointed to the board of Scottish Widows in November 2007 as a non-executive director. Jeremy began his career with Equity & Law in 1966 and then joined Tillinghast in 1973 at its foundation. He held a number of senior appointments in Tillinghast at various times between 1973 and 2004. During these times, he also held roles in Skandia Life and Barclays Financial Services. Jeremy was the President of the Institute of Actuaries from 2002 to 2004.

Qualifications

• Christ Church College, University of Oxford MA (Hons) Mathematics.
• Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries - 1971

Jeremy is also a non-executive director of Paternoster UK Ltd.