Our purpose: We secure your future
No #1 insurance brand globally
We employ 157,000 employees worldwide
We help 125 million* customers
Across more than 70 countries
Since 1890, all around the globe, we have been working hard to secure people’s lives and to prepare our customers for everything life has to offer.
We are ranked by Interbrand as theworld’s #1 insurance brandand theleading global insurance and asset management brandby Brand Finance Global 500.
As one of the largest general insurers in the UK, we operate under a number of brands, includingAllianz,Pet Plan,LV=andBritania Rescue.We offer commercial insurance and personal insurance including: legal expenses, car, home, musical, pet and equine.
Across the UK, Allianz Insurance employs over 4,200 people. Our UK head office is in Guildford, Surrey. We have additional support services with over 1,000 people based in Trivandrum, India.
*Including non-consolidated entities with Allianz customers.Update: March 7, 2024 (release of the Annual Reports 2023)
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We look to build partnerships with organisations that share our belief in embracing new ideas and have a positive impact on people's lives.
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For Allianz, countering climate change and limiting global warming is a crucial priority. It remains a major risk for the communities in which we operate and also directly impacts our business.
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Allianz Holdings Executive Committee
The Board of Management for Allianz Holdings is composed of seven members.
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Colm Holmes
CEO, Allianz Holdings
Colm joined Allianz in December 2021, with 20 years’ of experience across the insurance sector. With his deep understanding of the UK Property and Casualty (P&C) market. He previously held senior leadership at JP Morgan Chase, Zurich and Aviva, where he served as CFO and CEO.
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Nadia Côté
Commercial Managing Director, UK
Nadia has been with Allianz Group since May 2022 when she joined as Regional Managing Director for London & Nordics with AGCS. Prior to AGCS she was most recently Head of Major Accounts at Chubb Europe and before that she was country president for Chubb Europe in France for seven years.
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John Berry
Chief Risk Officer
John was appointed to the role of Chief Risk Officer in 2020. Prior to this, John was appointed as Director of Underwriting and Technical, Personal Lines in 2017. John joined Allianz in 2015 having previously worked in consultancy roles in the non-life insurance industry.
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Julie Harrison
Chief HR Officer
Julie joined Allianz Group in 2004 and has worked for Allianz SE, AGCS, Allianz Reinsurance and Allianz Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Allianz she worked for Cathay Pacific and Lufthansa. She was appointed Chief HR Officer in July 2020.
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Ashish Patel
Chief Operations Officer
Ashish joined Allianz as Director – Application Development & Maintenance in 2013 thereafter held the role of CEO – Allianz Technology India. Before joining Allianz UK as the COO in 2022, Ashish held the responsibility of Heading Global Delivery Network which encompassed locations like India, Thailand & Spain, leading 5200+ professionals.
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Ulf Lange
Chief Financial Officer
Ulf Lange was appointed CFO and a member of the Board in September 2016. This position continues his longstanding career with the Allianz Group, with roles including Head of Legal, Compliance and HR for the Allianz operations in CEEMA and CFO of Allianz Ayudhya, Allianz's life insurance entity in Thailand. In 2014 he was appointed Head of the CEO Office under Michael Diekmann and then Oliver Bäte.
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Kieran O'Keefe
Managing Director, Specialty
Kieran was appointed to the role of Managing Director, Specialty in 2021. Prior to this, he was Chief Risk Officer, LV= General Insurance after joining Allianz in 2018. He has previously held senior finance, risk and operational roles within the non-life insurance industry.
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Serge Raffard
Personal Managing Director
As Personal Managing Director for Allianz in the UK, Serge is responsible for the performance, strategy, culture and development of the Allianz personal lines business. Prior to taking on this role in the UK, Serge was Group Strategy, Marketing, Distribution Officer for the Allianz Group, based in Munich.
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Alison Rayner
Chief Compliance & Corporate Affairs Officer
Alison is responsible for setting a clear strategy for our business in terms of compliance and conduct relating to customer, clients, reputation, assets and the interests of our stakeholders, as well as corporate and regulatory affairs. Alison was previously Group Compliance and Financial Crime Risk Director at Aviva and has also worked at RSA, BGL and Direct Line Group.
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Christopher Twemlow
Chief Legal Officer &
Company Secretary
Christopher is responsible foradvising on legal, regulatory and governance issues, overseeing the legal and company secretariat functions across the Allianz Holdings group.Christopher previously worked with the international financial services group Euroclear since 2007 and has headed their UK legal team since 2013. Prior to this he worked with Lloyd’s of London.
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Matt Cox
Chief Audit Officer
Matt is responsible for assessing the effectiveness of the controls and governance we have in place to keep us safely delivering on our purpose. He joined Allianz from Deloitte, where he was a Partner leading risk, control and governance services.
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Laurence Townley
Chief Actuary
Laurence ensures we have adequate financial reserves and appropriate premium rates are being charged. He previously spent 10 yearsat Direct Line as director of financial risk. Prior to that, he held various roles at Zurich Insurance UK including chief actuary.
Colm Holmes is also on the Allianz Insurance PLC Board alongside the members shown below.
Allianz Insurance PLC Board
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Paul Evans
Chairman of the board
Paul has had a distinguished career in insurance. He is a Chartered Accountant who spent 13 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers and 17 years at AXA where he held a number of senior roles including Group CEO, AXA UK and Group CEO, AXA Global Life, Savings and Health.
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Denise Larnder
Non-executive Director
Denise joined the Board of Allianz Insurance in 2018, and is Chair of the Risk Committee. Denise is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of England and Wales, and a former partner at E&Y. She has over 30 years’ experience working with companies in the financial services sector, particularly insurance. Denise also sits on the supervisory board of Deloitte Netherlands, where she chairs the Audit & Finance Committee, as well as chairing the Audit & Risk Committee at the University of Greenwich.
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Chris Townsend
Director
As of Janurary 2021, Chris Townsend is a Member of the Board of Management of Allianz SE, overseeing the Group’s Global Insurance Lines, Reinsurance, Anglo Markets, Middle East and Africa and the Ibero LatAm region.
A highly experienced financial services executive across both the Life and P&C Insurance sectors who has lived and worked across four continents over the past 30 years including at AIG and MetLife.
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Dr Teresa Robson-Capps
Non-Executive Director
Dr Teresa Robson-Capps has had an impressive executive career spanning several industries: Retail, Mobile Telecoms, Professional Services, Insurance and Banking.
The last 11 years Teresa has developed her Independent Non Executive Career on a variety of boards as Chair, SID, and Non-Executive on various committees.
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Jose Vazquez
Non-Executive Director
Jose was appointed to the Allianz (UK) boards in June 2022. Before this Jose was Chief Risk Officer for Direct Line Group from March 2012 to February 2022. He was Global Chief Risk Officer from June 2009 for HSBC Holdings. From 2001 to 2009 he held a number of Chief Actuary roles in the UK and internationally for Zurich Financial Services.
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Oliver Corbett
Non-Executive Director
Oliver joined the Allianz (UK) Board in November 2023 as a Non-Executive Director. He was previously Founding Chief Financial Officer of McGill and Partners and before that held Chief Financial Officer roles at Howden, London Clearing House and Novae. He has also served as a Non-Executive Director and Audit Chair for Close Brothers Group plc and prior to that of Rathbone Brothers Group plc.
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