Alastair Lyons CBE
Chair of the Board
Appointed Non-Executive Director: May 2016
Chair of the Board: Since July 2016
Experience
A chartered accountant by training, Alastair has more than 20 years’ experience as a non-executive chair of both listed and private companies. During an extensive executive career in financial services, he was Chief Executive Officer of both the National Provident Institution and the National & Provincial Building Society, Managing Director of the Insurance Division of Abbey National plc, and Director of Corporate Projects at National Westminster Bank plc. He was awarded the CBE in 2001 for services to social security having served as a Non-Executive Director of both the Department for Work & Pensions and the Department of Transport.
Current other Non-Executive positions
Chair of Harworth Group plc.
Previous Non-Executive positions
Chair of the Admiral Group, the direct motor insurer, from 2000 to 2017, and subsequently of AECS, Admiral’s European holding company, until 2021, Chair of Towergate Insurance, Chair of Serco, the international services group and Chair of Vitality UK. Deputy Chair of Bovis Homes, and Senior Independent Director at Phoenix, the life assurance consolidator.
Committee membership
Chair of the Nomination Committee, the DPC Project Committee and the Leakage Oversight Committee. Member of the Environment, Social and Governance Committee, Finance Committee, Quality and Safety Committee, Remuneration Committee, and Technology Committee.