Prudential plc Tidjane Thiam as CEO, on a pay package worth up to £7.5 million. In August 2017, it was announced that Prudential was to combine its asset manager, M&G, and Prudential UK & Europe to form M&G Prudential. In November 2017, Prudential announced the change in the name of its joint venture with Chinese investment company CITIC to "CITIC Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited". In March 2018, Prudential announced that it would demerge M&G Prudential from the Group. The Company has three business units: Prudential RideLondon is an annual two-day cycling festival, held for the first time in 2013. The 2017
Tidjane Thiam he was awarded the Grand Prix de l’Économie, organised by Les Échos and Radio Classique, in partnership with law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. In July 2018, business and finance magazine Euromoney named Thiam "Banker of the Year 2018", citing his "radical three-year plan" that had "reinvented" Credit Suisse. Tidjane was married to Annette Thiam, an African-American lawyer who used to work for Joe Biden, and they have two sons. In October 2015, it was reported that they had separated. In addition to being a dual citizen of the Ivory Coast and France, he speaks English, French, and German, fluently. Tidjane