Mark Till, Chief Executive Officer of Unum UK, the specialist employee benefits provider, has joined the ABI Board with immediate effect.
The ABI Board provides the strategic direction to the Association’s work and is chaired by Baroness Nicky Morgan. In addition to joining the Board, Mark will also take on the position of Chair of the ABI’s Health and Protection Committee, which forms an integral part of the trade association’s health and protection policy development processes.
As Committee Chair, Mark will steer the group’s discussions on policy as the industry seeks to engage with the new government and demonstrate how the sector can support the UK’s productivity.
Mark brings with him a wealth of industry knowledge, having also worked as Managing Director of Aegon and held senior positions at Fidelity, Standard Life, HomeServe PLC and Barclays Bank.
Mark is passionate about enhancing access to workplace protection to boost employee health, happiness and productivity. He joined Unum UK as CEO in February 2021 and has been keenly focused on delivering growth and helping more people, successfully increasing Unum UK’s insured individuals by 39% over three years.
Baroness Nicky Morgan says:
“I’m so pleased to have Mark join the ABI’s Board. Mark’s experience and knowledge of the industry, and the health and protection market will be hugely valuable as we forge ahead with our mission to support the health and financial resilience of the country.”
Mark Till, Chief Executive Officer of Unum UK says:
“As an industry, there is great opportunity to work together in supporting people’s health and ensuring we have a world-leading sector with transparent and accessible products and services for all. Access to health and protection cover brings enormous benefits to individuals and their family members, not to mention the wider economy. As Chair, my goal is to help improve understanding of financial protection insurances and broaden their reach to more people.”
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Footnotes
Mark Till will replace outgoing H&P Committee Chair and Board member Alex Perry, who has joined Nuffield Health as CEO.
Mark Till Biography
Mark Till joined Unum in February 2021 as Chief Executive Officer of Unum UK and Chairman of Unum Poland. He is passionate about helping more people, believing that insurance and protection are good for society and make a difference to people’s lives every day.
Before joining Unum, Mark held several leadership roles in financial services, most recently spending five years at Aegon UK as Managing Director. There he was responsible for leading the company across pensions, investment platforms, asset management and personal protection. Previous to this, Mark served as Head of Personal Investing & UK Marketing Director for Fidelity International, where he managed over 275,000 customers and £12 billion of customer investments. He has also held positions with Standard Life, HomeServe PLC and Barclays Bank.
About Unum
We’re a specialist employee benefits provider, leading the way towards healthy, happy places to work. We offer financial protection through the workplace including Group Income Protection, Life Insurance, Critical Illness and Corporate Dental cover. We’re committed to health and wellbeing in society, so we help businesses build wellbeing strategies that make a difference to employees and their families.
We build these wellbeing strategies using a wide range of tools designed to help businesses of all sizes. This includes Help@hand, the award-winning health and wellbeing app from Unum, which offers employees fast, direct access to total health and wellbeing support. Services include a 24/7 remote GP, mental health support, a fully integrated employee assistance programme and more.
We’re on a mission to help more people. We constantly challenge ourselves to run our business in the right way — the way that’s right for our customers, our communities and the planet we all share.
We are signatories of the HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter, Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter and the Armed Forces Covenant, where we hold the Gold Employer Recognition Scheme Award. We are also a Disability Confident Leader, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Planet Mark Certified Business, and we’re certified as a Great Place to Work. We have also been awarded the Gold Payroll Giving Quality Mark by the Charities Aid Foundation for our charitable initiatives.
At the end of 2023, Unum insured more than 2.4 million lives[i] across all products in the UK and paid claims of £471 million, representing £9 million a week in benefits to our customers and providing security and peace of mind to individuals and their families.
Our parent company Unum Group provides a broad portfolio of financial protection benefits and services in the workplace through its Unum US, Unum UK, Unum Poland, and Colonial Life businesses. In 2023, Unum Group reported revenues of US$12 billion and paid approximately US$8 billion in benefits.
For more information, please visit www.unum.co.uk.
Unum Limited is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Registered Office: Milton Court, Dorking, Surrey RH4 3LZ. Registered in England 983768. Unum Dental is a trading name of Unum Limited.
[1] Unum internal data as at end of 2023. Figure represents the total number of lives under all policies and includes the total number of policies for an individual employee where they are insured under more than one product.
About the ABI
The Association of British Insurers is the voice of the UK’s world leading insurance and long-term savings industry. A productive, inclusive, and thriving sector, we are an industry that provides peace of mind to households and businesses across the UK and powers the growth of local and regional economies by enabling trade, risk taking, investment and innovation.
More news and information from the ABI is available on www.abi.org.uk .