Biography
Main responsibilities
Alexa Coates was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of both Aviva Investors Holdings Limited and Aviva Investors UK Fund Services in November 2019, and of Aviva Investors Global Services Limited in January 2025. She is also the Senior Independent Director of Aviva Investors Holdings Limited, and the Chair of the Aviva Investors Audit Committee, as well as a member of the Aviva Investors Risk, and Remuneration & Nomination Committees.
Experience and qualifications
Alexa is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years of financial experience. She is a chartered accountant, having started her career at E&Y in the UK and then in France. She moved into commercial roles, spending the last nine years of her executive career at HSBC, in various senior roles, including operating as the Global CFO for the asset management business. Alexa is an Independent Non-Executive Director and chair of the Audit Committee at Marsh Limited, the UK subsidiary of Marsh McLennan, as well as for both Polar Capital Holdings plc, an AIM listed, boutique asset manager, and Schroder Oriental Income Fund Limited, an investment trust.
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