Who is Stephen Gay?

Laura Miller
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Stephen Gay is taking over as director general of AIFA. But can, and should, an insurance company director represent IFAs' concerns, fight your corner, fly your flag?

As distribution development director at Aviva, Gay said his philosophy on managing and leading people was being able to answer the question 'how do you see the future?' For him it was to provide a vision that "aligns a team to a common cause". As a man who has spent a lot of time on insurance companies' books (he worked for Prudential and Standard Life before joining Aviva), heading up the nation's biggest professional body representing IFAs will test that philosophy to its limits. Already among the broad support for his appointment are whispers of concern over his background. S...

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