Ex-RSA SME MD Tara Waite rejoins insurance sector after Wonga collapse
RSA’s former SME managing director, Tara Waite (formerly Kneafsey) has re-entered the insurance sector as a non-executive director at Ageas UK, after originally leaving for the now collapsed payday lender Wonga.
Waite, pictured, left insurance when she was hired at Wonga in 2014, as its UK CEO. She joined then Wonga chairman Andy Haste, former RSA group CEO, at the lender at a time when the firm was
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