The life insurer, working across a raft of Asian nations, has a new chief financial officer.

Prudential Corporation Asia, the life insurer, has appointed Raghu Hariharan as chief financial officer, succeeding Adrian O’Connor, who is leaving the company.

Hariharan has been group director of strategy and capital markets at Prudential and a member of its group executive committee. In his new role, he will have responsibility for finance, actuarial, cpital markets, strategy and investor rlations across the region.

With more than 20 years of experience in financial services in Asia, the US and the UK, Hariharan joined Prudential in 2012 as investor relations director. He has held a number of senior roles with large multi-national companies including Citibank, General Electric and Fox-Pitt Kelton. Prior to joining Prudential, he was MD at Citibank, in charge of its global insurance sector equity research programme.

Prudential Corporation Asia is a business unit of Prudential plc* (United Kingdom), comprising its life insurance operations in Asia and its asset management business, Eastspring Investments. It is headquartered in Hong Kong.