Steve Armitage

Steve is the Head of the Strategic Partnership and Regional Intermediary Distribution teams at Rathbones, spanning the firm’s wealth and asset management solutions. Prior to joining Rathbones, Steve spent 14 years at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, where he was most recently Co-Head of UK Distribution and a member of the EMEA Distribution Senior Leadership Team. He previously held the roles of Head of Advisory & Strategic Partners and Director, Third Party Distribution at the company. Before this, he was Sales Director of Strategic Partners at F&C Investments for nearly a decade and also spent several years at Barclays Stockbrokers. He joined the industry in 1989 and holds the IMC.