
Chair
Andy Smart
Andy has worked with Openwork, or its predecessor firms, in one role or another since August 1984 when he joined the legal department of Hambro Life. Subsequent roles include Allied Dunbar’s Compliance Officer in the mid to late 90’s and British American Financial Services’ Risk Director for Allied Dunbar and Eagle Star. His final executive role was as Chief Risk Officer for Zurich’s life companies worldwide, before retiring in 2013. Andy held subsequent non-Executive roles, including chairing Generali’s Irish Life company, and joined the Openwork Holdings Limited Board in 2017 as chair of the Risk & Compliance Committee. He took the chair of Openwork Limited, the principal subsidiary, the following year and became our Group Chair in June 2020.