Sainsburys' Paul Howard was expected to be voted chairman of the Institute of Risk Management (IRM) yesterday.

Howard, who is group insurance and risk manager for J Sainsbury plc, will replace chai ...

Sainsburys' Paul Howard was expected to be voted chairman of the Institute of Risk Management (IRM) yesterday.

Howard, who is group insurance and risk manager for J Sainsbury plc, will replace chairman Mark Butterworth.

The IRM board was expected to vote him in prior to the institute's AGM.

Butterworth, who is Prudential's group insurance and risk manager, will continue as a director of the IRM, running the IRM Foundation and editing the institute's Inform magazine.