A former senior manager at Chase de Vere has been hired by James Hay as a new commercial director.

Mark Fleet who will join at the end of July, previously worked for Skipton where he was chairman of the building society’s advice arm and distribution director.

His previous roles include managing director at AWD Moneyextra and chief operating officer at Chase de Vere.

Alastair Conway, chief executive said: “I know that Mark’s wealth of experience both sides of the advice fence will be brought to bear on building on the foundations of a very successful 2014 for the business. He is a great addition to my executive team.”

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Mark Fleet said: “I'm delighted to be joining a company which is clearly putting the people who matter, investors and their advisers, at the forefront of its thinking with its flexible and fair approach to pricing - whereby clients only paying for what they use, while they use it.

“The changes in the market place mean that James Hay, with its approach to retirement wealth planning and extensive choice of both investment and drawdown options, is ideally placed to become the leading platform for retirement wealth planning.”