Head of Distribution - Aberdeen Standard Investments

Campbell Fleming is the Head of Distribution at Aberdeen Standard Investments, and is responsible for all client relations and service, sales, business development, and client investment specialists across the globe. He joined Aberdeen Standard Investments as a result of a merger between Aberdeen Asset Management and Standard Life in August 2017. Mr Fleming joined Aberdeen Asset Management in August 2016 from Columbia Threadneedle Investments, where he was the Chief Executive – EMEA and Global COO, having joined the firm in November 2009 as the Global Head of Distribution.

Previously, he worked for JPMorgan Asset Management as Head of UK after performing a variety of roles within the firm and Europe. He had joined JPMorgan with its acquisition of Robert Fleming Asset Management in 2000 (which he joined in 1997). Prior to that, Mr Fleming worked for Financial Service regulators in the UK and Australia as well as the Attorney General’s Department in Sydney, where he completed his legal training. He graduated in 1991 with a Dip Law at Barristers Admission Board through the Law Extension Committee, Sydney University.

He was admitted as a Barrister to the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1991, and to the Supreme Court of England & Wales as a non-practicing Solicitor. Mr Fleming is the Chair of the Investment Association Trade Committee, and previously to this position, the Chair of ICI Global and held a seat on the advisory and statutory boards of The CityUK and The Investment Association.