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Nicholas Lyons

Sir Nicholas Lyons

Chair of the Group Board

Appointed: 

31 October 2018 to 1 September 2022, reappointed on 1 December 2023

Committee member:

Chair of the Nomination Committee

Career and experience:

Nicholas has wide-ranging experience across the financial services industry, both in executive and non-executive roles. He started his career at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York UK (later JP Morgan LLP), where he held various roles in Debt and Equity Capital Markets and then in Mergers & Acquisitions. He later moved to Salomon Brothers and then to Lehman Brothers International Limited where he was a Managing Director and Co-Head of their European Financial Institutions Group and then Global Co-Head of Recruitment, Training and Career Development for the whole of Lehman Brothers.

Nicholas has extensive Non-Executive Director (‘NED’) experience, including Chair of Miller Insurance Services LLP, Senior Independent Director of Pension Insurance Corporation plc and Catlin Group Limited and NED of Friends Life Group Limited and Convex Group Limited. Nicholas is a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute.

Key skills and competencies:

  • Seasoned business leader with experience and understanding of insurance and the financial services industry, including the regulatory environment.
  • Strong communicator, bringing a sharp focus to people leadership, succession planning and development.
  • Experience in the governance of large-scale business operations, leading mergers and acquisitions and managing complex projects which are skills key to the fulfilment of Phoenix Group’s vision and purpose supporting his role as an experienced Chair of the Group Board.

Current external appointments:

NED at Convex Group Limited and Alderman in the City of London.