Carole Nash completes board with appointment of Financial Director

Carole Nash has completed a strengthening of its Board with the appointment of Clive Roberts as financial director.

Mr Roberts, 42, a chartered accountant, brings eight years of boardroom experience to the company having previously held financial director positions at fulfilment, marketing and ecommerce specialist, Zendor.com, and Eunite, the IT services and software firm. Prior to that he was head of management reporting at Kwik Save Group.

His appointment finalises Carole Nash’s Board following the arrival of new managing director David Newman in September. Mr. Newman has already confirmed the recruitment of ex-Roadsure managing director Simon Jackson as commercial director.

Commenting on his appointment Mr. Roberts said: “Carole Nash is an incredibly strong, market-leading brand with great potential for growth in both personal and commercial lines territories, so naturally I’m delighted to be joining the Board at this time. There is a particularly strong executive team in place and a highly dynamic management team ready to meet the challenge of taking the business forward, building on impressive brand loyalty and a solid book which provides a great cross marketing platform.”

Mr. Newman agreed, saying: “Clive and Simon’s arrival means we now have all the pieces in place to push the Carole Nash brand forward. We have a strong business plan which will see greater emphasis placed upon e-commerce, an area in which myself, Simon and Clive are all experienced. We also see that we can secure much greater impact in markets outside of our core motorcycle insurance business into which we have already diversified, such as motor, household and travel.”

Editor’s Note:

• With over230,000 biking policyholders, Carole Nash is the UK’s biggest motorcycle insurance specialist. It isalso one of the biggest players in the classic car sector and hasdiversified its personal lines portfolio to embrace motor, household andtravel insurance. It has alsomoved into commercial lines offering motor trades, professional indemnity,loss of business and many other lines. Its total annual revenues exceeding£70m and it employs around 350 staff at its Altrincham headquarters,Training Centre, Repair Centre and Dublin offices. In the Insurance Times Top 50 Brokerssurvey (published August 2007) CaroleNash was named asthe UK’s 32nd largest broker. Thecompany was founded by CaroleNash in 1985 andsold for an undisclosed sum to Groupama UK, owner of Groupama Insurances, one of the UK’sleading insurers, in December 2006.
  
  
• Clive Roberts chronological career history is as follows:
  2007 – Interim Manager, Paymentshield Ltd
  2002-2007 – Finance Director, Zendor.com, then part of the N. Brown Group Plc.
  1999-2002 – Finance Director, Eunite Ltd ( part of N Brown Group from 2000)
  1996-1998 – Head of Management Reporting, Kwik Save Group Plc.
  1994-1996 – Commercial Accountant BEOCO
• Prior to that he was an accountant with Price Waterhouse (Pricewaterhousecoopers) having articled with Kidsons Impey (Baker Tilly)