Spain: Ignacio Izquierdo is appointed new corporate director of Aviva

• Izquierdo has been appointed corporate director of bancassurance

Aviva Spain has appointed Ignacio Izquierdo as corporate director of bancassurance. Ignacio will be in charge of the bancassurance distribution channel as well as relations with Aviva Spain's partners.

With regard to joining Aviva Spain, Ignacio said: "I approach this new challenge in my career with the utmost commitment and enthusiasm. We are going through a difficult time at the moment but it is also a time of great opportunity for a company such as Aviva which is a market leader on account of its reliability and customer focus. It is with great pleasure that I join this fine team."

Ignacio joins Aviva from Grupo Santander where he was managing director of Santander Asset Management UK Ltd, Santander's UK asset management division. Prior to that he was the commercial director and head of marketing at the Abbey division for insurance and asset management, a position which he took up in February 2006.

Ignacio began working with this group in 1996 when he joined Gesbansantander as regional director. Since then he has held a number of positions of responsibility in different companies belonging to the Spanish group, including deputy director of the private bank Banif and commercial director and head of marketing at Santander Gestión de Activos (Asset Management). In January 2005 he made the international move to Abbey in London where he took up the position of head of savings and investments for the retail division.

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Notes to editors:

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Aviva is one of the leading European insurance groups in the life and pensions market.

In Spain, Aviva is a key player in the life insurance and pensions industry. It markets its products through professional brokers (Aviva Vida y Pensiones) and strategic alliances with some of the main Spanish savings banks (Bancaja, Caixa Galicia, Unicaja, Caja España, Caja Granada and Cajamurcia).