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Scottish Widows appoints new Protection Head of Intermediary Distribution
Catherine Trimble
Head of Intermediary Distribution
22nd January 2025
Scottish Widows has appointed Catherine Trimble as the new Head of Intermediary Distribution in its protection business from January 2025.
Catherine has worked in the distribution team since 2021, contributing to growth in market share and delivering on the insurer’s strategy.
In the new role, reporting to Rose St Louis, Protection Director at Scottish Widows, Catherine will be responsible for key strategic relationships and intermediary protection distribution activity to help more UK families put a financial safety net in place.
Prior to joining Scottish Widows, Trimble has worked in the financial services industry for over 30 years in a variety of business management, sales and protection adviser roles.
“Catherine has already played a crucial role in the delivery of the new platform and Income Protection product. With her now leading our protection intermediary distribution team, I am confident that we will continue to enhance the experience of advisers working with Scottish Widows, supporting them to meet the needs of their customers while delivering on our ambition to be a top three provider.”
Rose St Louis, Protection Director at Scottish Widows
“I’m excited to start the new year leading a very talented and highly driven distribution team at Scottish Widows. I am very passionate about protection and really looking forward to supporting advisers, through our great products and services, to financially protect more UK individuals and families from big, often unforeseen, life events and Help Britain Prosper at the same time.”
Catherine Trimble, Head of Intermediary Distribution, Protection at Scottish Widows
About Scottish Widows
Founded in 1815, Scottish Widows is part of Lloyds Banking Group, the UK’s largest digital bank and financial services group. With more than £226bn assets under administration and 10 million customers, Scottish Widows’ award‐winning product range includes workplace and individual pensions, annuities, life cover, critical illness and income protection, as well as savings and investment products.
More than 2 million customers access Scottish Widows products and services through the Lloyds Bank and Scottish Widows apps, in addition to accessing directly through independent financial advisers. The Scottish Widows Platform is trusted by more than 18,000 advisers and 5,400 advice firms, that manage the pensions and investments of almost 166,000 clients.