Tidjane Thiam an executive director, sitting on the plc board. In January 2007, after Richard Harvey announced he would step down as chief executive of Aviva, Thiam was tipped as a possible future head of the group. Thiam left Aviva in September 2007 to become chief financial officer of Prudential plc. In March 2009, Thiam was named chief executive, effective from October, after Mark Tucker chose to step down. The appointment made him the first African to lead a FTSE 100 listed company. His departure from the role was announced on 10 March 2015. After he became chief executive, Prudential launched a
Financial Services Roundtable services companies with additional C-Suite level executive representatives from each company. The current President and CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable is Tim Pawlenty, a former governor of Minnesota. In 1993, the Bankers Roundtable was formed because the 81-year-old Association of Reserve City Bankers and the 35-year-old Association of Registered Bank Holding Companies merged. In 2000, after a decision by the Board of Directors the previous year to "broaden the mission to represent integrated financial service providers...the Roundtable's impact as a major player on Capitol Hill and with the regulators", the name was changed to The Financial Services Roundtable. Since