Sesame platform head Young quits

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Sesame Bankhall Group chief operating officer Stephen Young has quit just a week after details of the platform proposition he headed were announced to members.

Young, who has been at the company for nine years, will leave to 'pursue other interests'. He heads up the group's new investment platform, Sesame One, powered by Axa Elevate. The new platform, developed to help advisers respond to RDR-fuelled changes, is set to roll out later this year. The move follows an announcement in September that Young was to be replaced as COO by George Higginson, who will join Sesame Bankhall in early 2011 from his previous role at Intrinsic. The shake-up of Sesame's management team also saw former Positive Solutions marketing director Keith Gilmour jo...

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