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Scottish Widows appoints Mary Trussell as non-executive director
Scott Wheway
Chair of the Scottish Widows Group Board
7 July 2025
Mary Trussell will join Scottish Widows’ Board as a non-executive director from July 2025.
Scottish Widows has announced today that Mary Trussell joins the company’s Board as a non-executive director from July 2025.
Mary spent almost four decades working at KPMG, where she served as a Financial Services Audit and Consulting Partner, before retiring in March 2023. She had a particular focus on Insurance, both in the UK and across multiple geographies, including Europe, North America, Hong Kong and China.
During her career, she gained experience spanning the entire range of insurance markets, from life, health and personal lines to specialty risks and reinsurance, working with clients including M&G/Prudential, Allianz, AIA and AIG amongst others.
Since her retirement, Mary has established a portfolio of non-executive director roles, chairing the Audit Committee for Tokio Marine Kiln Syndicates, Ariel Re and, most recently, InEvo Re. She is also serving as a Finance Trustee and Board Member for Farms for City Children and Internews Europe.
Mary will bring to the Scottish Widows’ Board expert knowledge and expertise of delivering tech enabled transformational change and navigating changing consumer and regulatory environments across retail and wholesale financial services.
Scott Wheway, Chair of the Scottish Widows Group Board, said: “Mary’s combined strategic and financial oversight experience with a sound understanding of risk management culture and diversity will be a real asset for Scottish Widows.
“We are focused on delivering on our strategy for the benefit of our customers, and Mary’s expertise of corporate governance and insurance accounting will support our ongoing work to achieve this.”
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About Scottish Widows
Founded in 1815, Scottish Widows is part of Lloyds Banking Group, the UK’s largest digital bank and financial services group. With more than £232bn assets under administration and more than 6 million customers, Scottish Widows’ award-winning product range includes workplace and individual pensions, annuities, life cover, critical illness and income protection, as well as savings and investment products.
More than 2 million customers access Scottish Widows products and services through the Lloyds Bank and Scottish Widows apps, in addition to accessing directly through independent financial advisers. The Scottish Widows Platform is trusted by more than 18,000 advisers and 5,400 advice firms, which manage the pensions and investments of almost 166,000 clients.