Imperial Holdings announced the appointment of Messrs Peter Cooper and Graham Wayne Dempster to the board. Until recently Mr. Cooper served as the Chief Executive Officer and Financial Director of RMB Holdings Limited and Rand Merchant Insurance Holdings Ltd. His early career was in the financial services sector, first as a tax consultant and later specializing in corporate and structured finance with UAL Merchant Bank. He joined Rand Merchant Bank in 1992 as a structured finance specialist and transferred to RMB Holdings in 1997, where he was appointed to the Board in 1999.

His experience includes that of a non-executive Director of Discovery Limited and Glenrand M.I.B Ltd. He is currently a non-executive director of RMH, RMI, RMB Structured Insurance and Outsurance, and an alternate director of Firstrand. Mr. Dempster is currently an executive director of Nedbank Group Limited and Nedbank Limited and was the Chief Operating Officer until 31 December 2014. He has over 30 years' service in the Nedbank Group and will reach his formal retirement date in May 2015.

He is a past Managing Director of Nedbank Corporate having joined the group in 1980 in the Corporate Finance Division of UAL Merchant Bank. He is currently a non-executive Director of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated and Telkom. The appointments are effective from 24 February 2015.