BGL Group has appointed Kal Atwal and Martin Overton to the main board as well as naming a new boss of comparethemarket.

BGL said the restructure, which creates four operating groups, will allow it to prepare for the next phase of its growth.

Atwal has been promoted to group director, brand-led businesses and has board responsibility for bike insurer Bennetts and Courtanet, the recently acquired French aggregator business.

Atwal will also head-up new business ventures identified by the group in 2012.

She was previously managing director of comparethemarket and will continue to have strategic marketing oversight for the aggregator site.

Overton becomes group director, legal services. This operating group includes ACM, the claims management division and board responsibility for BGL’s relationship with Minster Law.

Paul Galligan, previously director for Bennetts, is replacing Atwall as boss of comparethemarket.

All three new appointments will report in to BGL’s group chief operating officer, Matthew Donaldson, effective 1 September 2011.

The fourth operating group, intermediated businesses, will consist of Junction, Frontline and Fusion.

A group director for intermediated businesses will be appointed in the coming months, the company said.

BGL chief executive, Peter Winslow, said: “I am delighted to announce these board appointments and to see Kal and Martin join my board room colleagues at this very important time in the next phase of our development of BGL.

"We have enjoyed significant growth in recent years and will be reporting profit growth once again for the year ended 30 June.

"We are keen to maintain and increase that momentum to take the company to the next level, each of our divisions has experienced significant successes in their own right and the growth of our board now reflects this."

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