Money Marketing’s MM Meets – an interview series with high-profile players at advice firms, platforms, providers and more – continued to be hugely popular in 2023.
In this series, we get to know the people in the top jobs and the plans they have for their organisations.
Take a look at our highlights from the past 12 months and keep an eye out for more big names next year!
In the first MM Meets of 2023, Maxime Carmignac of the French asset manager dynasty, describes a love of competition that has driven her since childhood, the ‘special time horizon’ of a family business, and creating financial products for women.
MM Meets: GBST boss Rob DeDominicis: ‘Getting the entire industry to agree is very difficult’
GBST chief executive on forming his first business when ‘there was no such thing as fintech start-ups’, going live before Y2K and the challenge of keeping up with technology.
MM Meets: EQ Investors’ Sophie Kennedy: ‘There’s not one sustainability mandate that fits all’
The co-CEO of EQ Investors, Sophie Kennedy, tells us more about driving systemic change throughout the industry, collaborating with B Corp peers and fostering an inclusive environment.
MM Meets: Octopus Investments former CEO Ruth Handcock on living outside one’s comfort zone
Octopus Investments former CEO Ruth Handcock on living outside her comfort zone, offering products that make a difference to customers’ lives and helping change the world.
M&G Wealth’s managing director speaks to Michael Klimes about his love of America, his early career in the States and what his plans for the company are going forward.
MM Meets: CISI chief executive Tracy Vegro: ‘We want youngsters to stay in the sector for life’
Still excited by her newish role as head of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, Tracy Vegro is keen for the membership body to be seen as both relevant and modernising.
MM Meets: Doug Brown: ‘Joining Aviva was a privilege and I couldn’t refuse the opportunity’
Aviva UK & Ireland Life CEO Doug Brown talks openly to Momodou Musa Touray about having ‘one of the best jobs in the UK’, life in his adopted country and his plans for the wealth sector.
MM Meets: Verve Group chief executive Cathi Harrison: ‘My comfort zone is chaos’
The paraplanner turned support service powerhouse talks to Money Marketing‘s features editor Maria Nicholls about her big business shift, juggling work and parenthood – and how to fix financial services.
A conversation you won’t want to miss.
MM Meets: Standard Life CEO Andy Curran: ‘We have been distant from IFAs for too long’
The Standard Life CEO wants to regain the ‘fantastic relationship’ the company had with advisers two decades ago — and he is prepared to put in the work.
As ‘someone who likes changing things’, Alex Cowan-Sanluis has transformed Platform One since becoming its chief executive in 2019. Here, he talks to chief reporter Lois Vallely about how much he enjoys being outside his comfort zone.
MM Meets… FNZ’s Alastair Conway: ‘I’ve got the best of both worlds’
In November’s MM Meets, FNZ’s chief executive for the UK, Middle East and Africa, Alastair Conway, tells Money Marketing‘s senior reporter Momodou Touray how he is relishing his main task of furthering FNZ’s mission of ‘opening up wealth’.
MM Meets… Embark CEO Jackie Leiper: ‘We’re moving away from traditional business boundaries’
Embark’s chief executive speaks to chief reporter Lois Vallely about implementing auto-enrolment, buying a platform, building new propositions and fostering growth.
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