Quilter appoints Berkeley Group's Glyn Barker as chair

Effective from 7 September

Quilter has appointed Berkeley Group’s Glyn Barker as its new chair, effective from 7 September 2022.

Barker, who held an executive career at PwC for 36 years before becoming the chair of property developer Berkeley Group in 2012, will also join Quilter's board as a non-executive director and as a member of its Board Renumeration Committee from 1 June. In March this year, Quilter first announced that former chair Glyn Jones would not seek re-election at the firm's annual general meeting in May "in order to pursue other interests". Senior independent director Ruth Markland became interim chair of the business after the AGM and will remain in the role until Barker formerly takes over at th...