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Article: Trail blazer keeps RSA in the pink; the city INTERVIEW.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 14, 2006
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Byline: RUTH SUNDERLAND
BRIDGET McIntyre, a pretty, perky blonde, is about as far as it is possible to get from the boardroom stereotype of a middle-aged, public-school educated male.
But as chief executive of Royal & SunAlliance's UK operations, the chirpy Northerner is probably the most important woman in the British insurance industry. She may be petite, but she's powerful.
McIntyre joined RSA in November from rival Aviva, just as the company, under new chief executive Andy Haste, was dragging itself out of a terrible period.
Its results had been hammered by asbestos liabilities in the US that led to a series of sell-offs and the nickname 'Rapidly ...