Board

Adrian Clark is Cardiff Location Director and Chief Operating Officer for Protection throughout the UK for Legal & General Assurance Society Ltd.

He has been employed for 30 years within the Financial Services industry, with the previous 10 years developing Legal & General’s presence in South Wales, which now employs approximately 2,000 staff.

Adrian has been instrumental in developing the collaboration between Legal & General and Cardiff University to create the Medical Underwriting Academy. The success of the Academy has led to several teams of highly skilled professionals within the Financial Services Industry.

He has been employed in many sectors of the Insurance industry from UK Life and Pensions to General Insurance and as an overseas advisor for development opportunities in both Thailand and Indonesia.

Adrian is Chair of the Cardiff Business Partnership and sits on the board of The Financial Services Skills Council Board, and The Leadership & Management Wales (LMW) Business and Industry Board at Cardiff Business School.

David Stevens is the Chief Operating Officer of the Company. He is a founder director of Admiral. Initially the Marketing Director, he was appointed Director responsible for pricing in 1996 and claims and pricing in 1999. He was appointed as Chief Operating Officer in 2004. He joined Admiral in 1991 from McKinsey & Co, where he worked in the Financial Interest Group, London office. Prior to working for McKinsey & Co, he worked for Cadbury Schweppes in the United Kingdom and the United States. David has an MBA from Insead.

Educated at Cardiff University and Guildford Law School he trained in Gray’s Inn and moved to the International London firm of Simmons & Simmons. Legal Director & Agency Secretary of the Welsh Development Agency between 1993 to 2002. A lawyer for 22 years he is now Vice-Chairman of the Wales North America Business Chamber, Director of the Millennium Stadium plc, and Director of Cardiff Business Club and Hon Vice President of the Wales India Centre. His charitable interests include chairing Donate Wales which promotes the need for organ donation and transplantation and Kidney Wales Foundation. Roy founded the Public Trust Partnership in 2003 which provides advice to major corporations undertaking projects in the public and private sectors in Wales.

Huw is Chief Executive Officer at Boomerang and co-founded Boomerang in 1994. Prior to founding Boomerang, Huw worked in marketing and public relations, gaining experience in both the public and private sectors. Huw spent two years from 1988 in the public relations department of S4C where he was promoted to the position of Deputy-Head of Public Relations. He then went on to work at the Welsh Development Agency as Marketing Initiatives Manager, before leaving to work as Sales and Marketing Manager for Best Display Group Limited. His first experience of TV production came with a six month contract with HTV Wales in 1994. In 1996 Huw was elected on to the council of TAC, the industry’s trade organisation in Wales, and was elected Chair of the organisation in 2002, a position he held until 2006 having served for two terms of office. In 2005, Huw was elected to represent the Welsh PACT membership as their National representative on the PACT Council, a position he held for two years. Huw graduated from the University College Cardiff in 1987.

Alan has been Western Mail Editor since 2002 and is also Publishing Director of Media Wales. He also has overall editorial responsibility for Wales Online, the South Wales Echo, Wales on Sunday and a host of weekly titles and a portfolio of free magazines. Alan studied law at Bristol University before taking a postgraduate journalism diploma at Cardiff University. He is a Cardiff boy who has worked for Media Wales since 1986. He held various reporter and management titles with the company before becoming Editor of Wales on Sunday in 1997 and then taking the helm of the Western Mail five years later.

Chairman of S.A. Brain and Co-Founder of brand marketing consultancy Heavenly Group. 25 years experience working for marketing services companies on a broad range of clients across a number of different sectors. John has worked directly for Brains as a Marketing Consultant since 2002, leading the brand relaunch, positive thinking and WRU sponsorship marketing campaigns. At Heavenly, John has led the team that has developed the new brand positioning and brand guidelines for the Wales brand, incorporating Visit Wales and International Business Wales. He continues to work on various Welsh Assembly Government branding and marketing projects alongside his responsibilities at Brains.

Bruce Morris is the Regional Chairman for Wales for Freshwater-UK plc. The Freshwater Cardiff office is the headquarters of the Freshwater UK network, and is home to one of the largest PR agency teams in Wales. A former Western Mail & Echo Marketing Manager, Bruce is an experienced professional who has run his own businesses, OBM Marketing and Merlin Marketing and PR, prior to its merger with Freshwater.

A native Welsh speaker, he is a graduate in marketing from the University of Kingston and has a post graduate diploma in marketing studies. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Throughout his career Bruce has been consistently involved in marketing and promotion, not only in projecting businesses forward but also in providing public relations and marketing consultation and implementation.

Louise is Managing Partner of Grant Thornton in Cardiff and Bristol. Louisde was born and brought up in Cardiff and has lived here all her life. After finishing school, Louise joined the Civil Service as a graduate direct entrant, qualifying as a Tax Inspector authorised to act on behalf of the Board of Inland Revenue. Louise entered the accounting world in 1989 and joined Grant Thornton in Cardiff in 2000 as Tax Partner. She has progressed to Managing Partner for both Cardiff and Bristol with national management responsibilities including mentoring other Managing Partners.

When not working Louise’s passions (apart from her family) include hockey where she is a former board member of the Welsh Hockey Union having played at Club level and umpired at international level travelling to tournaments around the world. Louise is also a very keen cyclist with her husband and three children and a big supporter of the Cardiff Cycling Campaign. Louise has seen Cardiff transformed over the years but is passionate about the need to develop Cardiff further as the economic powerhouse of the Welsh economy.

Alun Jones is Managing Partner of leading Welsh law firm and top 100 UK law firm Hugh James, taking the helm in January 2011.

In his role as Managing Partner, Alun is responsible for formulating and implementing the firm’s business strategy and day-to-day operations.

Alun also continues to act as head of the asset management team at Hugh James, which advises financial institutions and private individuals on all matters relating to wills, trusts and probate.

Alun was integral to the development of our volume-based asset management services, which we provide to major UK high street financial services brands. He manages relationships with our business clients, work partners and introducers and has considerable experience of developing outsourced workflow systems with robust audit, supervision and reporting structures for financial sector clients.

Alun has been at the forefront of developing new methods of delivering legal services and remains integral to the development of innovative and lean operating models at Hugh James. He has designed and implemented highly-engineered technical systems for handling large volumes of instructions, resulting in new business and major contracts with top financial services sector companies.

Alun was also responsible for developing and launching a state-of-the-art, integrated online legal services portal for Hugh James and for developing sophisticated management information and extranet reporting facilities for the firm’s clients.

Alun joined Hugh James in 1992 as a trainee solicitor and, after qualification in 1994, advanced through the ranks. Between 2007 and 2010, Alun was head of the firm’s corporate and banking division with responsibility for implementing the strategic and operational functions of our business-related teams.

A fluent Welsh speaker and an alumnus of Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, Alun is married with two children.