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Welcome to Royal London’s Annual General Meeting voting portal

I am delighted to invite you to take part in our Annual General Meeting (AGM).

Royal London is owned by you, our members. Our AGM gives you the opportunity to have a say in how we are run, ask questions and engage directly with our Board and leadership team. To learn more about what mutuality means, visit royallondon.com/mutuality.

You can attend the AGM in person or online. If you are unable to attend, you can still vote or submit questions in advance.

Event details:
• Date and time: Tuesday 2 June 2026 at 11am (please arrive from 10am).
• Venue: The Westin London City Hotel, The Westin Ballroom, Huggin Court, London EC4V 4AY.
• Online: Join us at attend.cesjoinin.com/login and enter the meeting ID 30435 followed by your two-part security code. We recommend joining around 15 minutes before the start.

In this portal you will find everything you need to know about participating in our AGM, including the Notice of AGM, this year’s resolutions, directors' biographies, the 2025 Annual Report and Accounts, together with information about how to vote and ask questions.

I look forward to your participation in our 2026 AGM.

Isabel Hudson
Chair

Biographies of the directors who will stand for reappointment at the AGM

Daniel Cazeaux

Jane Guyett CBE

Isabel Hudson

Eithne McManus

Barry O’Dwyer

Pars Purewal

Mark Rennison

Nicky Richards

Gregor Stewart

Important information

Our 2025 Annual Report and Accounts

Read more about how we have been performing and what we delivered in 2025.

2026 Notice of Annual General Meeting

Including resolutions, explanatory notes and directors' biographies.

FAQs

More details about participating in our AGM.

You can ask a question at our AGM by:

• Joining online on the day
• Attending the meeting in person
• Emailing us in advance at: [email protected]
• Calling 0800 085 7835
• Writing to us: FAO Company Secretary, 80 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 4BY

Your Royal London plan

If you have a query about your Royal London plan, please contact us.
Please have your plan details to hand when you contact us.
Email: [email protected]
Call: 0345 605 0050 (9am to 5pm Monday to Friday, except bank holidays).

Barry O’Dwyer

Group Chief Executive Officer

Committee membership: Disclosure Committee (Chair)

Appointed: 8 January 2020

Skills and experience: Barry O’Dwyer is an actuary with extensive financial services experience in the UK and Ireland. He began his career at Standard Life in 1988, when it was a mutual. In 2008, he moved to HBOS and, shortly afterwards, to Prudential UK & Europe, where he became Deputy Chief Executive Officer. He returned to Standard Life in 2013, where he became Chief Executive Officer of Standard Life’s platform, pensions and savings businesses. He joined the board of Standard Life plc in 2017. Following Standard Life plc’s merger with Aberdeen Asset Management, he was the head of Standard Life Aberdeen plc’s UK business, before joining Royal London in 2019.

External appointments: Barry is currently a member of the board of the Association of British Insurers, a member of the board of the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation and a non-executive director of Coop Exchange Limited.

Daniel Cazeaux

Group Chief Financial Officer

Committee membership: Disclosure Committee, Investment Committee, With-Profits Committee

Appointed: 22 September 2020

Skills and experience: Daniel Cazeaux is a chartered accountant. From 2008 to 2020, he was a partner at KPMG in the UK, where he led global client teams delivering audit services to UK and global insurance companies, as well as advising on finance change programmes and transactions. In his time at KPMG, he also performed executive secondment roles into finance functions of large UK insurers, which enabled him to develop deep-rooted specialist and commercial expertise in the financial services industry. He currently serves as a director of Royal London Insurance Designated Activity Company, Royal London’s business in Ireland.

External appointments: None.

Isabel Hudson

Chair

Committee membership: Nominations and Governance Committee (Chair), Remuneration Committee

Appointed: 10 February 2025

Skills and experience: Isabel Hudson has extensive financial services experience spanning insurance, pensions and regulation, and has held non-executive roles in the telecommunications and house building sectors. Her previous appointments include independent designated non-executive director for employees at BT Group plc, Senior Independent Director of RSA Insurance Group plc, and Chair of the National House-Building Council. Prior to these appointments, she served as non-executive director on the boards of Phoenix Group Holdings (Jersey), Standard Life plc, QBE Insurance Group Ltd. (Australia), Marine And General Mutual Life Assurance Society and The Pensions Regulator. Until recently, she was a non-executive director and Chair of the Audit Committee at AXA SA.

External appointments: Isabel is currently Chair of The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. Since December 2023, she has been a non-executive director of ISC Group, a global not-for-profit organisation that champions equal representation for women in insurance.

Nicky Richards

Independent Non-Executive Director

Committee membership: Investment Committee (Chair)

Appointed: 5 October 2023

Skills and experience: Nicky Richards has extensive experience of business and investment leadership from her executive and non-executive careers. She is the former Global Head of Equities and member of the Group Management Committee at Schroders plc, where she spent 20 years of her executive career. She was also Group Chief Investment Officer at Fidelity International for four years, and Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of MLC Asset Management for two years. Her non-executive experience includes being a non-executive director of RWC Partners Limited. While affiliated to Schroders, she chaired the RWC Partners (Redwheel) board between 2016 and 2020, and remained on the board in a non-executive capacity before stepping down in November 2024.

External appointments: Nicky is currently Chair of Schroder Asia Pacific Fund plc and is a non-executive member of the Investment Sub-Committee of King's College London.

Eithne McManus

Independent Non-Executive Director

Committee membership: With-Profits Committee (Chair), Audit Committee, Risk and Capital Committee

Appointed: 1 April 2023

Skills and experience: Eithne McManus is a chartered enterprise risk actuary and an experienced non-executive director in the life and pensions industry. During her executive career, she was Chief Executive of City of Westminster Assurance, having previously acted as Chief Financial Officer and UK actuary. She has since held non-executive directorships at a number of organisations such as Countrywide Assured, CASLP Limited and LGPS Central. Eithne has a strong affinity with the mutual sector, having served as a non-executive director of UIA Insurance (a mutual insurer). She also has a deep understanding of With-Profits, having previously chaired the With-Profits Committee at Countrywide Assured and having been an independent member of the With-Profits Committee at the Prudential Assurance Company.

External appointments: Eithne is currently a non-executive director at Countrywide Assured plc, Chesnara Life (UK) Limited, and SCOR Ireland DAC.

Jane Guyett CBE

Independent Non-Executive Director

Committee membership: Remuneration Committee (Chair), Nominations and Governance Committee, Risk and Capital Committee

Appointed: 4 August 2021

Skills and experience: Jane Guyett has extensive knowledge and experience of financial markets and corporate governance in the UK and globally. She has held senior roles with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London and New York, which included serving as Chief Operating Officer (EMEA and Asia) of the Global Markets Group and sitting on the board of Bank of America Securities. She was previously a non-executive director of Kelliher Insurance Group Limited, UK Financial Investments Limited and UK Government Investment Limited, and Chair of Connect Plus (M25) Limited.

Jane was awarded a CBE in 2021 for services to the UK economy.

External appointments: Jane is currently an independent non-executive director of LCH Limited, Banque Centrale de Compensation SA, Paris, and senior independent director at Hiscox Group. She is also a member of BDO LLP’s Public Interest Committee and Oversight Board.

Mark Rennison

Independent Non-Executive Director

Committee membership: Risk and Capital Committee (Chair), Audit Committee, Nominations and Governance Committee, Remuneration Committee

Appointed: 25 September 2020

Skills and experience: Mark Rennison is a chartered accountant with extensive experience of working both with and for large financial services organisations. He was Chief Financial Officer at Nationwide Building Society for 12 years and, prior to that, worked at PwC for more than 25 years, including 12 years as a partner in its banking practice. Until 2023, he served as a non-executive director of both TSB Bank plc and TSB Banking Group plc. He is a former member of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority Practitioner Panel and a former Chair of UK Finance’s Financial Risk and Policy Committee. Until July 2024, he was a non-executive director at Homes England, where he chaired the Investment Committee and Home Ownership Committee and served on the Audit and Risk Committee and the Change Committee.

External appointments: Mark is currently a non-executive director of NatWest Holdings Limited, National Westminster Bank plc, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc and Coutts & Company.

Pars Purewal

Independent Non-Executive Director

Committee membership: Audit Committee

Appointed: 8 February 2023

Skills and experience: Pars Purewal is a chartered accountant and the Chair of Royal London Asset Management Holdings Limited and Royal London Asset Management Limited. He retired as a senior partner of PwC after a career of over 37 years, including 10 years as PwC’s UK Asset Management leader. He has deep experience of asset management, gained through providing audit and advisory services at PwC. Following his retirement from PwC, he served on the boards of directors of Brewin Dolphin Holdings plc and Federated Hermes Limited. Until May 2024, he chaired the board of trustees of the Beyond Food Foundation and until July 2024 he was a non-executive director of Temple Holdings Limited.

External appointments: Pars is currently Chair of Finsbury Growth & Income plc. He is also an independent non-executive director of The Law Debenture Corporation plc, Chair of its Audit and Risk Committee and a member of its Nomination and Remuneration Committees.

Gregor Stewart

Independent Non-Executive Director

Committee membership: Audit Committee (Chair), Investment Committee, Nominations and Governance Committee, Risk and Capital Committee

Appointed: 2 June 2025

Skills and experience: Gregor Stewart has extensive financial services experience across the insurance and asset management industries, at both executive and non-executive level. He qualified as a chartered accountant in 1988, becoming a partner in EY’s financial services practice in 1999. During a 23-year career at EY, his focus included large audit and advisory clients across the insurance, pensions and investment management industries. He subsequently joined Lloyds Banking Group plc, which included Scottish Widows, for four years as Finance Director of its Insurance Division. He was previously Chair of Alliance Trust plc and Chair of Quilter Financial Planning Ltd. Until July 2025, he was non-executive director of Direct Line Insurance Group plc.

External appointments: Gregor is currently Chair of FNZ Group and Chair of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra..

Annual General Meeting 2026

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Welcome to Royal London’s Annual General Meeting voting portal

Biographies of the directors who will stand for reappointment at the AGM

Important information

Our 2025 Annual Report and Accounts

2026 Notice of Annual General Meeting

FAQs

You can ask a question at our AGM by:

Your Royal London plan