Senior Leadership

Retirement & Protection, Peter Barrett Peter Barrett
Senior Vice President
Retirement Income and Wealth Management,  Europe
Genworth Financial

Peter Barrett is Senior Vice President for Genworth's Retirement Income and Wealth Management business in Europe. He is responsible for growing the company's operations outside of the United States, focussing primarily in the retirement income and wealth management markets.

Before joining Genworth Financial, Peter was Managing Director of Charcol, the UK's leading mortgage broker where his focus was to grow the business through a multi channel strategy, consisting of a national branch network, telephone centre and online platform. Prior to this, Peter was Managing Director, Retail of Bradford & Bingley PLC and was responsible for running the bank network of 210 branches as well as their estate agency business of over 300 branch offices. Peter was also responsible for managing the MarketPlace at Bradford and Bingley, which at the time was the UK's largest Independent Financial Adviser(IFA). During this time, Peter was a member of the British Bankers Association Retail Committee.

Ahead of joining B&B, Peter was managing Director of Goldfish, a leading credit card company in the UK, where he led the creation of a new bank in partnership with Lloyds TSB and was a board director of Centrica Financial Services, whose other business was the AA Financial and Insurance Services.

Peter also spent six years with Genworth's former parent, GE, where he held a number of roles including Managing Director of GE Life.

Peter was educated at East Surrey College, UK and is based in London.

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