Fund and corporate services provider the Aztec Group has appointed Virginia Rothwell as its first Chief People Officer.
Virginia will drive the group’s people agenda and lead its multi-jurisdictional HR, employee engagement and training teams.
She joins the Aztec Group from real estate firm JLL, where she has held the position of UK HR Director since 2014. In this role, she sat on the JLL UK board and led the firm’s people strategy.
Virginia has had an international career in technology, professional services and retail banking, where she has developed people agendas for multinational firms.
She also brings experience in marketing and business development to the Group. Prior to JLL, Virginia spent 13 years with BT in London and the Asia Pacific region, where she directed the people strategy and led a number of large-scale business transformation projects.
In her new role, Virginia will sit on both the Aztec Group Executive Committee and the People Committee, with group-wide responsibility for performance management and recruitment disciplines, people-focused change processes, reward strategies, professional development and succession planning. Based in the UK, she will regularly travel to all of the Group’s offices.
Pictured: Virginia Rothwell with Aztec Group’s CEO, Edward Moore