Biography
Main responsibilities
Sue Amies-King was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Aviva Investors Holdings Limited in March 2022, and of Aviva Investors Global Services Limited in January 2025. She is also Chair of the Aviva Investors Risk Committee and a member of the Aviva Investors Audit, and Remuneration & Nomination Committees.
Experience and qualifications
Sue has significant experience in the Financial Services sector having spent 8 years at Aviva’s UK Life business and 5 years as an independent non-executive director at a personal lines insurer. She started her career in the energy industry and then moved into financial services in 2004, spending 8 years at Aviva in operational and transformation roles. Sue spent the last 7 years of her executive career in the Water sector initially as a member of the executive team of United Utilities, a FTSE 100 company and then as CEO of a joint venture company called Water Plus which she established. Sue is an independent non-executive director and chair of the Customer Conduct Committee for Hastings Direct Insurance Ltd, as well as a non-executive director and Chair of the Risk Committee for Railpen Limited and Railpen Pension Investments Limited, and an independent consultant advising companies on business transformation.
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