M&G plc leadership

Andrea Rossi was appointed Group Chief Executive in October 2022. He has more than 25 years of experience in financial services, in particular on the global asset management and insurance sectors. He was CEO of AXA Investment Managers and a member of the AXA Group Executive Committee for six years. Before that Andrea was CEO of their Italian Insurance business, a position he held for five years. He also held a number of senior roles across AXA’s insurance businesses in France, the Mediterranean and Middle East regions. Andrea began his career with GE before moving to AXA in 2001.

Before joining M&G, Andrea was a Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group on Insurance and Asset Management within the firm’s Financial Institutions practice. He is also a Non-Executive Director of REsustain, a firm he co-founded in April 2021 which developed a platform that reduces carbon intensity in commercial real estate.

Andrea graduated from INSEAD with an MBA in 1994, and holds a MsC in Economics and Commerce from the University of Rome, “La Sapienza”.

Benoît Macé joined M&G plc in October 2022 and is the Group's Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer. Prior to that he spent 17 years at Boston Consulting Group, where he was a Managing Director and Partner in Financial Services, advising businesses in the asset management, wealth management and insurance sectors across the UK and Continental Europe.

In his role at BCG he worked extensively with executive management teams on profitable growth strategies, operating model redesign and digital transformation initiatives. He also led the firm’s asset management activities in the UK and Continental Europe for 5 years.

Benoît holds Masters of Science from Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris.

Clive joined M&G in September 2023. With over 30 years of experience in financial services, he joins us from LV= where he was Managing Director of Protection, Savings and Retirement.

Over his career Clive has built deep expertise within the Life and Pensions sector, including 11 years at Aviva Life UK, five of which were as Managing Director of Retirement Solutions.

Clive represents M&G on the Board of the Association of British Insurers (ABI).

Dev Sanyal joined the board of M&G plc as well as the Audit and Risk committees on 16 May 2022. Dev Sanyal is Chief Executive Officer of VARO Energy Group AG, a Swiss-based diversified energy company, since 1 January 2022. Prior to this, he was a member of bp’s Group Executive committee for over a decade in a 32-year career with the company until 31 December 2021. He headed bp’s Gas and Low Carbon Energy businesses globally and prior to that was Chief Executive, Alternative Energy and accountable for bp’s Europe and Asia regions. Earlier, he was Group Treasurer and Chair, bp Investment Management Ltd. Dev served as an independent Non-Executive Director of Man Group plc from 2013 to 2022.

Louise has over 24 years’ experience in the Financial Services industry. She joined M&G plc as the Chief Risk Officer for Non-Financial Risk and was appointed as the Interim Chief Risk and Compliance Officer in January 2024. Prior to joining M&G plc, Louise worked at UBS for eight years within Compliance and Operational Risk Control, and served as the Global Head of Operational Risk for the last three years. Earlier in her career, Louise spent 15 years in external audit at Deloitte where she trained as a chartered accountant. She worked on a variety of projects and with many clients in the Banking and Capital Markets sectors, where she gained valuable experience in risk management and compliance.

Massimo Tosato joined M&G plc as an Independent Non-executive Director and Chairman of M&G Group Ltd in April 2020. Massimo has more than thirty years’ experience as an investment banking and asset management entrepreneur and senior manager. His career has included 21 years at Schroders, where he served most recently as Chief Executive of Schroder Investment Management Limited and Executive Vice Chairman of Schroders plc. He has also held Board positions at Nutmeg, an online discretionary investment management start-up, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, and served as Vice President of the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA). He is currently Non-executive Director of Banca Intermobiliare and serves on the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School in New York and, until 31 March 2020, he was also Non-executive Director of Pictet Asset Management in Geneva.

Matt joined M&G plc as the Chief of Staff in September 2019 and since then has also taken on the People and Technology functions making him Chief People Officer.

Matt was previously Managing Director for the Later Life Planning and Legal Services at the Co-op and prior to that the Managing Director for Barclays Secured Lending and the COO for the Retail Bank’s Global HR Operations. Earlier in his career Matt worked with a variety of FTSE Financial Services organisations working on transformation, change and integration with Accenture.

Clive Adamson has enjoyed a 44 year career in financial services spanning executive roles in banking and regulation and, more recently, board roles across wholesale and retail banking, insurance and asset management. Mr Adamson spent 20 years in wholesale banking initially with Citigroup and then with Bank of America where he held a number of senior positions including Regional Head of the UK and Northern Europe. He then moved into regulation as an adviser at the Bank of England before being appointed as Director of Major UK Groups at the newly formed Financial Services Authority, a position he held during the financial crisis. Mr Adamson then moved to the Financial Conduct Authority on its formation where he was Director of Supervision and an Executive Member of the Board. After 17 years in financial regulation, Mr Adamson has been a Non-executive Director of Virgin Money plc and currently is the Chair of Ashmore Group plc, a Non-Executive Director of JP Morgan Securities plc, the Chair of JP Morgan Europe Ltd, which houses the new Chase UK digital banking business, and the Chair of Nutmeg Savings & Investments Limited. He was also, until March 2022, a Senior Adviser at McKinsey & Company. Mr Adamson holds an M.A. in Economics from Cambridge University.