Kate McClellan

Profile

Job title

Chief Operating Officer

Work location

London, United Kingdom

Joined Aviva Investors

2012

Joined The Industry

2002

Biography

Main responsibilities

As Chief Operating Officer, Kate is responsible for global operations, transformation and information technology across the Aviva Investors business. This includes the design and execution of an effective operating model to support the business with a focus on increasing operational efficiency and management of relationships with major outsource providers.

Experience and qualifications

Kate has over 15 years of experience in the Financial Services sector having spent 10 years in Group Finance at Aviva plc before joining Aviva Investors in 2012. Prior to the COO role Kate was the Director of Global Funds Services and Controls Operations performing independent monitoring and operational processes that manage and oversee our regulated funds business and deliver compliance with specific regulations such as financial crime, CASS, MiFID II and data protection.

She has a track record of delivering change as well as significant process and control improvement across multiple regulations, asset classes, and geographies. Before joining Aviva, she was at PricewaterhouseCoopers, with experience in multi-national audit and transaction services in the UK and Romania.

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