Sanderson and Cooper join schemes and affinities arm

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Brightside insurer relations and group partnerships head Alan Sanderson and head of operations Peter Cooper have left to join Gallagher’s UK schemes and affinities business, Insurance Times can reveal.

Sanderson will be schemes and affinities corporate partnerships director, and Cooper will be schemes and affinities operations director. They will report to Gallagher managing director Des O’Connor.

Brightside chief executive Martyn Holman said: “Both of them leave with our best wishes.”

Holman said that the way that Brightside had restructured its schemes and affinities business meant there would be no direct replacement for either Sanderson or Cooper.

A Gallagher spokesman would not comment.

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