{"id":323,"date":"2015-03-12T15:43:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T15:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sure2insure.co.uk\/?p=323"},"modified":"2015-03-12T15:43:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T15:43:30","slug":"towergate-appoints-wood-as-ceo-of-paymentshield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Towergate appoints Wood as CEO of Paymentshield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ecclesiastical UK managing director Steve Wood returns to the insurance industry to join Towergate&#8217;s executive team.<br \/>\n  Towergate Insurance has appointed Steve Wood as chief executive officer of Paymentshield.<\/p>\n<p>  The appointment marks Wood&#8217;s return to the insurance market after having previously left his post as UK managing director of Ecclesiastical Insurance Group in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>  Towergate confirmed he would join its executive team on 16 March and that acting chief executive officer James Watson would revert to his role as sales director.<\/p>\n<p>  Wood has over 30 years&#8217; experience in the insurance industry and in addition to his eight years at Ecclesiastical he has worked at RSA and Royal Insurance.<\/p>\n<p>  Scott Egan, interim CEO at Towergate said: &quot;This appointment is further evidence of the pace at which we are moving forward at Towergate.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are continuing to attract talent to the business, which adds to our experienced and capable team.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>  Wood added: &quot;It is an exciting time to be joining Towergate, and I am delighted to be taking on the Paymentshield role.<br \/>\n  &quot;Paymentshield is a great business with lots of potential, and I really look forward to working with the team there to drive the company forward.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Source:www.theguardian.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ecclesiastical UK managing director Steve Wood returns to the insurance industry to join Towergate&#8217;s executive team. Towergate Insurance has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}