Meet the Support Team

Carole Challen - Office Manager & Company Secretary

Carole joined the Company  in Sept 1999, after a long & successful Career as a Retail Sales Manager.

Originally employed as Office Manager, Carole took on the additional role of Co. Secretary in November 2004.

" I love my job – it is extremely diverse, everything from opening the post to the Company Accounts. There is never a dull moment."

Outside of work Carole lists her Loves as:- Formula One, Las Vegas, Shopping, (notorious for her Shoes & Handbags!) Cats, Concerts, Cruises, Curry………Oh, & more Shopping!

Karen Locke - Administrative Assistant/Typist

Karen joined the company as a part-time audio typist in January 2003 after various other part-time jobs and also taking time out to bring up a family.  Karen works 4 – 5 hours a day from Monday to Friday doing various office tasks.

Outside of work Karen is busy looking after her family together with a horse, two Labrador dogs, three Guinea Pigs, two rabbits and last but not least 4 goldfish.

Jean Bailey - Client Account Executive

Jean spent 8 years with Zurich before taking a career break to raise her 2 children.  Since joining Lawrence Clarke Ltd 12 years ago, Jean has moved through several roles in the Company, including Group Schemes administration, pension reviews and paraplanning.  Over the past 3 years Jean has become a pension specialist  involved in the setting up and running of SIPP’s, SSAS’s and Company Schemes.

Outside of the office, Jean enjoys spending time with her family, travelling, playing pool, adding to her already enormous jewellery collection (which we are all extremely jealous of!) and generally having as much fun as possible.

Anne Bowes - BA Hons ACII-Paraplanner

Anne is originally from Yorkshire but has lived in Southampton since 1991.  She has been in the financial services industry for over 15 years, working as a manager for the Southampton Office of a large life assurance company.  She has been with Lawrence Clarke Ltd since January 2007 providing an administrative and report writing service for Steve Farrell and Steve Wilson.

Anne is a Chartered Insurer, having obtained her Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute in 1996.  She is currently working towards her diploma.

Outside work Anne is a member of English heritage and enjoys visiting historic buildings with her husband and son. 

Debbie Howell - Administrator

Debbie is a recent addition to the Lawrence Clarke team joining in September 2007 as an Administrator to David Spencer, Steve Smith and Rachael Larbalestier.  Debbie took an 8 year career break to bring up her two children Elliott and Abbie, who is disabled with a rare neurological disorder.  She is happily married to Mark and after living in the North-West for a number of years and a fantastic and successful year in Cape Town running our villa rental business; returned to Hampshire and has settled back to the Fareham area.  I really love my job and have learnt a great deal in the short time here.  It’s the best move I ever did!

When not trying to organise David Spencer!!, Debbie really enjoys the usual girly things like shopping and spending money, a good Tikka Masala, catching up with her friends in her spare time (which isn’t much!) but most of all loves spending time with her family and having great fun with them (oh and moaning at her husband - his words!)

Marion Grant - Personal Assistant

Marion has taken over the mantle of ‘newest member of the Lawrence Clarke team’ from Debbie! Marion joined us in November 2009 as PA to Larry Clarke.

Originally from Edinburgh but has lived in the sunny south for 9 years now, she has been in the financial services industry for 20 years with a large life assurance company, based both in Edinburgh and Southampton. Marion was in an IFA Support role and is now looking forward to working ‘on the other side’ in a client facing role.

When not at work Marion enjoys travelling. She and her husband have several family members based around the world making it easier to squeeze in visits to lots of different countries.