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Management

The management of Ascentric has a proven history of successfully building and running financial services companies.

Click here for a full profile of MD Hugo Thorman recently published in Money Marketing Magazine.

Clive Boothman - Non-Executive Chairman

Clive Boothman - Non-Executive Chairman Clive Boothman has over twenty years experience in financial services and investment management. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, he began his City career with Schroders, where he built up their UK unit trust business between 1987 and 1998 to be one of the largest and most successful in the UK. He then became Managing Director of their global Private Clients business, before leaving to run Gerrard, an amalgamation of Greig Middleton and Capel Cure Sharp to form the largest private client stockbroker in the UK. More recently he has run Cofunds, the UKs largest independent funds supermarket, before undertaking a number of consulting assignments and non-executive positions.

Clive is well known within the industry, having been past Chairman of AUTIF (now the IMA) and a board member of APCIMS and LAUTRO.

Hugo Thorman - Managing Director

Hugo Thorman - Managing Director

Hugo Thorman has held a number of executive roles within the retail Financial Services industry including Chief Executive of James Hay and Intermediary Marketing Director of Abbey National. Previous experience also includes Assistant Director of Strategy at Abbey Life, Marketing Director of Black Horse Financial Services and as a Consultant at Watson Wyatt.

Hugo has a sound knowledge of the intermediary market and expertise in pensions, investments and life assurance. He has been involved in Platforms since the launch of the James Hay Wrap in 2003. In 2005 he joined the embryonic Ascentric business as CEO. Ascentric then bought the Fundsdirect business from Egg Plc and launched the Ascentric Wrap in January 2007. He then identified Royal London Group as the ideal partner for Ascentric in late 2007.

Hugo has a B.A. honours degree in Economics from Nottingham University and an MBA from London Business School.

Andrew Carter - Non-Executive Director

Andrew Carter - Non-Executive DirectorAndrew joined Royal London Asset Management in September 2001 as Chief Investment Officer.  In September 2003 he was promoted to Chief Executive Officer with overall responsibility for RLAM’s corporate strategy and delivery. He was appointed to the Board of Royal London Group in December 2006.

Andrew began his investment management career in 1983 with Provident Life as a UK Equity Analyst while also assisting in the running of their property portfolio. In 1985 Andrew joined Mercantile & General Reinsurance, managing a variety of both equity and fixed interest portfolios, before moving on two years later to become Continental European Fund Manager at Gartmore. After successfully managing pan-European portfolios, Andrew became Gartmore’s Head of UK Institutional Equities in 1997, prior to his appointment as overall Head of UK Equities in 1999. Andrew graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Modern History and Economics.

Mark Hastings - Finance Director

Mark Hastings - Finance Director

Mark Hastings was formerly a Vice-President with Credit Suisse First Boston and brings to the business experience of regulatory, statutory and financial control. Mark specialised in the accounting of complex financial products and spent three years as Financial Controller at Credit Suisse's derivatives arm CSFP.

Whilst Mark is predominantly a financial services expert, he began his career in practise before spending a number of years in the airline industry. He is a Chartered Management Accountant and has a Masters in Finance from London Business School.

David Hudd - Operations Director

David Hudd - Operations Director

David has over thirty years experience within the Financial Services sector, predominantly within equities registration and registrars businesses. His career began with Nat West Registrars where he was instrumental in establishing the Employee Share Plan business and later for the functional specification of a new core operating system.

At the Royal Bank of Scotland he was responsible for the migration of over 8m shareholder records from Nat West systems to the RBS platform and then undertook the role of Business Project Manager for the Halifax demutualization (the largest floatation in UK equity history). He then managed a white-labelled Registrars service for that newly listed client whilst the register matured.

Since 1998, he worked for Computershare Investor Services where he undertook a number of executive roles including Head of UK Operations and Head of UK Business Solutions Group.

Richard Goodall - Sales Director

Richard Goodall - Sales DirectorRichard Goodall joined Ascentric as Sales Director from 1st Software and The Exchange, where he was the Sales and Marketing Director. Prior to joining 1st, Richard held senior distribution roles with National IFA Sedgwick Noble Lowndes and also with Product Providers AXA and Zurich.  

With Richard’s understanding of Financial Services distribution, combined with his knowledge of the IFA use of technology, he is well placed to understand the changing market driven by the Retail Distribution Review and the value wrap technology can bring to IFA’s.

Richard will lead our growth in 2010 with our Business Development team and maximise the opportunities that exist for firms seeking unbiased and unrestricted market coverage from their wrap platforms.

Richard holds the Dip PFS and MBA qualifications.