S&P Global Market Intelligence presents a daily roundup of management and board changes in the insurance industry. This feature excludes C-level leadership changes and stories previously covered by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Life and Health

Martin Houston will retire as a nonexecutive director of Bupa, effective Dec. 31.

Houston will continue as a nonexecutive director on the Bupa Arabia For Cooperative Insurance Co. board.

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Sony Financial Holdings Inc. appointed Hiroyuki Tsubota as executive officer of its general affairs department and the human resources department, effective Jan. 1, 2020.

Tsubota is currently director of human resources and general affairs at Sony Marketing Inc. and in charge of the financial business project at Sony Corp. Tsubota also is senior general manager of the human resources and general affairs divisions at Sony Home Entertainment & Sound Products Inc. and Sony Global Manufacturing & Operations Corp.

Insurance broker

Brightside Group Ltd. named John Derek Henry director, effective Dec. 23.