Mike Wells (businessman) 20 years in a variety of senior positions at Jackson. He was appointed as Jackson's CEO in January 2011, at which time he also joined the board of Prudential, Jackson's UK-based parent company. During Wells's four-year tenure as CEO of Jackson, it became the largest seller of variable annuities in the US. In June 2015, Wells succeeded Tidjane Thiam (who left to become CEO of Credit Suisse), on a pay package worth up to £7.5 million. In March 2016, he announced Prudential's first full-year results since taking over as CEO, showing that the group made operating profits of £4billion in
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