David Thompson [

Managing director, wealth investments & distribution, AXA Wealth

David Thompson is managing director of wealth investments and distribution, AXA Wealth, reporting to Mike Kellard, CEO. David has overall responsibility for the business’s investment and distribution strategy.

David has worked in the financial services industry for over 20 years. Latterly as director of distribution for Winterthur Life, David was responsible for developing Winterthur’s depolarisation strategy and was instrumental in launching the company’s Professional Edge adviser support initiative. During the six years in this role Winterthur saw new business grow by 710%.

David has a BA Honours in Economics and is an Associate of Chartered Insurance Institute and the Chartered Institute of Management. In 2005 David achieved a Diploma in Business Management. He joined Winterthur in 1999 from the Zurich Group as regional sales manager.

In his spare time David is a keen football supporter - an interest he shares with his fourteen-year-old son.

CV
September 2009 – present – AXA Wealth, managing director, wealth investments & distribution
January 2008 – September 2009 AXA Winterthur Wealth Management, managing director, sales & marketing
January 2007 – January 2008: Winterthur Life, managing director
August 2005 – January 2007: Winterthur Life, director of distribution
September 2003 – August 2005: Winterthur Life, sales director
August 1999 – September 2003: Winterthur Life, joined as northern regional manager, became senior regional sales manager, then national sales manager
Sept 1987 – Aug 1999: Eagle Star Life Assurance & Zurich IFA Group (following Zurich’s acquisition of Eagle Star), joined as graduate trainee and then became regional sales manager