Group General Counsel
Ward is Group General Counsel, having joined Athora in July 2021. He is responsible for legal, compliance and governance across the Group.
Ward has three decades of international legal experience including 25 years at Genworth Financial, Inc., a Fortune 500, NYSE-listed global insurance group, where he was most recently Executive Vice President and General Counsel.
Prior to Genworth, Ward worked at an international law firm LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, at a global professional services firm, Marsh & McLennan and at a multinational insurer, AIG.
Ward also served as a Member of the Board of Directors at the Richmond Forum, the largest public speaker series in the US, from 2015 to 2022.
Ward has a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School and a degree in economics from Columbia University.
