PPL Restructures Its Leadership Team

The latest news from Placing Platform;

Placing Platform Limited (PPL) has completed a restructure of its leadership team, as part of the ongoing transformation of the London market’s leading digital placement platform. The new structure follows Board and governance changes (announced earlier this year), placing an emphasis on the executive leadership team to identify growth opportunities, deepen client relationships and ultimately create additional value for market firms.

As a result, the PPL executive team will be re-organised around the following areas of strategy execution, and will report into CEO John Mason:

• A new Product Office will be created accountable for the build out of new capabilities and products designed to enable brokers and carriers across the end-to-end trading cycle. This will be led by Tanya Duckworth as Chief Product Officer.
• A new Revenue Office will be created accountable for driving growth through account development and broader business development initiatives. This will be led by Simon Bailey as Chief Revenue Officer.
• The primacy of continuing to advance functionality and ensure a consistency of design and approach across the core platform as new capabilities are rolled out will be owned by Andy Woolley as Chief Design Officer.
• With the transition to a technology business all engineering across development and maintenance will fall under a single technology function. This will be led by Mark Griffith as Chief Technology Officer.
• The Chief Operating Office remains with an increased focus on ensuring the efficient development of the overarching operating model to secure strategy execution. This continues to be led by Colin O’Malley Chief Operating Officer.
• The Chief Finance Office remains with a sharpened commerciality focus. This continues to be led by Amit Arora as Chief Financial Officer who also remains as a PPL board member.

The newly shaped Executive team follows the implementation of a streamlined board and governance structure that enables greater operational independence, and a sharper commercial focus. The new board is smaller (9 Directors, down from 15), more empowered and freed to take a longer-term view. Importantly, the Board structure continues to reflect PPL’s market ownership structure. [Full details on PPL’s Board in the Notes to Editor section below]

John Mason, CEO of PPL said: “A key priority for H2 2025 was to transform the business operating model to facilitate the delivery of enhanced client value and enable on-going innovation. The reorganisation of my leadership team is the final piece in this jigsaw and sets us up well to deliver on our heightened strategic ambitions. Fundamentally, we remain focused on how we can empower brokers and carriers building on our market owned critical infrastructure. With my refreshed team we can now look to accelerate progress and deliver for our clients.”