Alliance Trust Savings appoints ex-Friends Life finance boss as chairman

Tim Tookey joins board

Alliance Trust Savings has appointed Tim Tookey as chairman of its board, after becoming an independent standalone business, with its own management and board.

Tookey (pictured) is currently also non-executive director of Nationwide Building Society, having joined its board in June 2015. Prior to that, he spent three years as chief financial officer at Friends Life Group and six years with Lloyds Banking Group, rising to group finance director. Alliance Trust gives progress report on overhaul He has also held senior finance roles within Prudential and Heath Lambert Group, and spent ten years at KPMG where he qualified as a chartered accountant in 1988. In his new role as chairman Tookey will work with existing non-executive directors, ...