Executive profiles

Rob Devey is Chief Executive, Prudential UK and Europe and an executive director of Prudential plc.

Rob joined Prudential in November 2009 from Lloyds Banking Group where he worked since 2002 in a number of senior leadership roles across insurance and retail banking including Managing Director, Direct Channels UK Retail Banking, Managing Director of HBOS Financial Services and Managing Director of HBOS General Insurance.

Prior to joining HBOS, Rob was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in both Europe and the US working in financial services.

Andy was appointed as Deputy Chief Executive in April 2010, having been Managing Director, Finance UK & Europe Insurance Operations since April 2007.

Andy is a chartered accountant with over 20 years in financial services.

He was previously Group Chief Risk Officer from September 2005 to March 2007 at Prudential plc and Director, Group Finance and Risk at Prudential plc from 2000.

Prior to joining Prudential, Andy was Group Financial Controller at Legal and General Group plc, Deputy Group Financial Controller of Lloyds Bank plc and was originally with Metal Box plc. He trained as an accountant with Deloitte Haskins and Sells

Barry was appointed as Deputy Chief Executive in April 2010, having been Managing Director of Prudential's Retail Life and Pensions business since January 2009. He is responsible for the strategic development and growth of its pensions, investments, and retirement income products in the UK and Europe.

Barry joined from HBOS Financial Services where, as Products and Marketing Director, he was responsible for pensions, investment and protection products for Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Clerical Medical.

He began his financial services career at Standard Life and during 19 years with the company he held a number of senior management positions in both the UK and Ireland, latterly as Managing Director, Marketing.

Barry chairs Prudential's Community and Financial Education Committee and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.

Cathy Lewis was appointed HR Director - UK & Europe on 30 November 2009.

Cathy was Chief People Officer at HM Revenue & Customs from November 2008 - November 2009 and Executive HR Director at Cooperative Financial Services from 2006 - 2008.

Cathy's previous roles include HR Director for Abbey, BAA plc and Lillywhites Ltd.

Cathy also sits on Prudential Group's Responsibility Committee.

Tulsi Naidu was appointed Operations Director in December 2009, when she also joined the Prudential UK & Europe Executive Committee.

Tulsi has held a number of commercial roles across Prudential since 2003, when she joined the business in the Corporate Development area. She worked on the first annuity portfolio acquisitions in the UK life industry and also led a number of other deals on behalf of Prudential.

In 2006 Tulsi was appointed Director of Mature Life & Pensions (ML&P) and was responsible for the management of the business, including the negotiation of the outsourcing deal to Capita in 2007. In January 2008, Tulsi assumed responsibility for Direct Distribution for Prudential UK in addition to her role as ML&P Director. Immediately prior to her current appointment, she was Director of Corporate Pensions.

Tulsi began her financial services career at Arthur Andersen and also held positions at ICICI Bank and CSFB. She is an MBA.

David Belsham has been the Actuarial Function Holder/Appointed Actuary of Prudential plc's UK life assurance companies since 1998.

In this role, David's responsibility is to ensure that Prudential UK's long term insurance business is operated on sound financial lines and with regard to policyholders' reasonable expectations.

David joined Prudential as an Actuarial trainee in 1983, and qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1988. He has worked in a wide range of Actuarial functions covering valuation, systems development, product development, general insurance, management reporting, and mergers and acquisitions. David was Chief Actuary of the company's direct sales force division from 1992 to 1995, and has been Chief Actuary of the UK division since 1995.

John has been the Director of Investments at Prudential's Portfolio Management Group since 2001.

John is responsible for the broad investment strategy for Prudential's large multi asset funds such as the with-profits and annuities funds and more specifically the investments in alternative assets such as hedge funds and private equity. He also make sure a robust performance and risk monitoring process is in place for both internal and external asset managers.

John joined Prudential in 1982 and has been in a number of investment roles covering equity and economic research and asset allocation.

John is married with two children and lives in Hampshire.

Marcia Cantor-Grable was appointed Chief Risk Officer in July 2009.

Marcia was previously with Genworth Financial UK where she held the role of Chief Risk Director and before that, President of the European Mortgage Insurance Business.

Prior to this, Marcia spent 16 years with GE Capital, working in a variety of roles including President and Chief Executive of the GE Financial Employer Services Group, Senior Vice President Capital Markets and Global Product Management and Senior Vice President Chief Risk Officer for the Consumer Savings & Insurance business. She also held senior banking and credit positions at Mellon Bank.

Originally from Boston, USA, Marcia has a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University.