Strategic Report
Governance Report
Financial Statements
Company Financial Statements
Board of Directors
Andrea Montague CEO
Katherine Jones CFO
Robert Burgess Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
Key skills and experience • Substantial strategic leadership experience in the UK long-term savings and asset management industry. • Commercially and client focused to deliver improved tangible performance value and outcomes. • Significant expertise of delivering transformational change in a highly regulated environment. Andrea joined Brooks Macdonald in August 2023 as Chief Financial Officer, assuming the role of CEO from 1 October 2024. Andrea brings an impressive track record and experience of operating at Board and Executive level across the UK long-term savings and asset management sector. Before joining Brooks Macdonald, Andrea was Group Chief Risk Officer at Aviva, where she had previously been Group Chief Financial Controller. Prior to that, Andrea has held senior leadership roles including Deputy Group CFO at Royal London and Group Chief Internal Auditor at Standard Life plc. Her formative years were spent at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she qualified as a chartered accountant.
Key skills and experience • Extensive expertise in strategic, financial and commercially focused leadership across listed and regulated businesses. • Proven track record of leading business and team restructures, cost transformation programmes, and complex transactions. • Significant experience in equity and debt market transactions, M&A execution, market listings, and driving shareholder value. Katherine joined Brooks Macdonald in November 2024 as Chief Financial Officer, responsible for leading the overall strategic and financial performance of the business. Katherine has over 20 years of experience in Financial Services leading high-performing strategic financial planning, reporting and tax teams, finance transformation, investor relations and complex corporate transactions. Before joining Brooks Macdonald, Katherine was most recently Group Finance Director at Phoenix Group, and prior to that, she held senior finance roles including Group Head of Financial Performance at Prudential Plc and Director of Investor Relations at Partnership Plc (now Just Group plc). Katherine is a chartered accountant and qualified at KPMG in Insurance and Asset Management Audit and Transaction Services.
Key skills and experience • Brings significant Executive and Non-Executive experience to the Board and the role of Risk and Compliance Chair. • Broad financial services experience, particularly in wealth management, asset management, banking and fintech. • Significant experience of high-growth businesses. Robert joined Brooks Macdonald as a Non-Executive Director in August 2020 and is Chair of the Risk and Compliance Committee and a member of the Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees. Robert was appointed Senior Independent Director (“SID”) in May 2023. Currently a Non-Executive Director at OakNorth Bank, Robert chairs both the Risk and Compliance Committee and the Credit Committee. Robert is also the Chairman of Invest & Fund, a specialist fintech business. Robert has over 25 years of financial services experience across leading banking, wealth, asset management and fintech firms. He has held senior Executive positions including at Lloyds Banking Group and Scottish Widows, and he was previously a Board Director of Alliance Trust plc and CEO of Alliance Trust Savings.
Brooks Macdonald Group plc Annual Report and Accounts 2025
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