The Nationwide Building Society has announced the appointment of two non-executive directors.

Tim Tookey has joined the board as a non-executive director and chair of the Board Risk Committee and Mai Fyfield has joined the board as a non-executive director.

Tookey’s 29 year career has included being chief financial officer at Friends Life Group. Prior to joining Friends Life in 2012, he was group finance director of Lloyds Banking Group between 2008 and 2012 and was appointed as deputy group finance director upon joining the bank in 2006.

From 2002 to 2006, he was finance director of Prudential PLC’s UK business and from 1996 to 2002 he held the role of group finance director at Heath Lambert Group.

Fyfield is group director for strategy and business development at Sky. She joined Sky in 1999 after spending eight years working as an economic adviser to companies in the UK and USA.

Nationwide’s chairman, Geoffrey Howe, said: “I am very pleased to welcome both Tim Tookey and Mai Fyfield to the Nationwide board. They have highly relevant experience and expertise which will be invaluable to the Society.

“I know they both share the board’s commitment to putting the needs of our 15 million members at the forefront of our thinking at all times.”