David Fagan

Chair & Independent Non-Executive Director

Dave has spent over 30 years working in the life insurance, pension and investment industry. He spent the early part of his career working for Irish Life, Ireland’s largest insurance company in a variety of accounting, financial management and marketing management roles in both Ireland and the UK. In 1998 Dave was appointed as Chief Executive of Irish Life International, a cross border life insurance and investment business within the Irish Life Group. In 2007 he joined Legal & General as Chief Executive of Legal & General International with a brief to establish and grow this business on behalf of the Legal & General Group. During part of this time Dave also held responsibility for Suffolk Life, a self-invested pension business within the Group. From 2013 until 2016 he served as Managing Director – Retail Savings Distribution for the Legal & General Group. Within this role he was responsible for some of the largest independent and tied distribution relationships across the UK market and it also included board membership of Cofunds, the largest investment platform in the UK. Since 2017 Dave has combined his INED roles with acting as a part time COO for Ireland’s largest retail investment platform (until 2021) and on a number of consulting projects in financial services. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (FCCA) and has served on a number of prominent Industry and Government Advisory Groups over the years.