David has almost 50 years of experience working in financial services. He joined UK Finance as Non-Executive Director in 2018 and was appointed CEO in 2021. 

He is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Banking Federation, and a Non-Executive Director at TheCityUK and the International Banking Federation. David also represents UK Finance at the UK Joint Fraud Taskforce.

David began his career at Barclays, where he worked for 26 years including spells in SME and large corporate banking. He led the integration and consolidation of independent product businesses and then led IT and Operations for the Group.

He led the Commercial Banking division at Lloyds Banking Group before moving to become CEO of Cattles. He was CEO of both Moneycorp and Bibby Financial Services before joining UK Finance.

Bob Wigley spent his banking career with Morgan Grenfell and Merrill Lynch and was EMEA Chairman of Merrill Lynch between 2003 and 2009. Between 2006 and 2009 he was a member of the Court of the Bank of England. He is a past member of the Takeover Panel, the FSA’s Senior Practitioners Panel and was the FSA’s nominated representative on the Council of European Securities Regulators Market Consultation Panel.

He led a group of industry Chairman and Chief Executives to author a report on the competitiveness of London as a global financial centre “London, Winning in the Decade Ahead” and chaired the Green Investment Bank Commission. Since leaving banking, he has chaired and invested in a number of Fintech companies. Bob was instrumental in the creation of TheCityUK and has been on its advisory board since its formation.

Fernando Vicario is CEO of Merrill Lynch International and head of Bank of America NA London Branch. Fernando is also Bank of America’s UK Country Executive. From 2020 until 2025, Fernando held the position of CEO of Bank of America’s lead European banking entity, Bank of America Europe DAC and Country Executive for Ireland.

Fernando has worked at Bank of America for over 30 years, across multiple strategic roles worldwide, including head of EMEA and Latin America Corporate Banking and co-head of EMEA Debt Capital Markets and Corporate Banking.

Fernando served as a director on the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland (AmCham) and as a director on the Board of the Financial Services Ireland (FSI). He also served as both a director on the Board of the Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) and chair of the Federation of International Banks in Ireland (FIBI).

Ian Bhullar is Director for Sustainability Policy, and works with members and UK and international regulators to shape the sustainable finance landscape. Passionate about mobilising the financial services sector toward a more sustainable economy, his team focuses on tackling policy barriers to green finance and helping firms share knowledge and best practice. He sits on the IRSG Sustainable Finance Committee and European Banking Federation’s Sustainable Finance Expert Group.

Ian joined UK Finance in 2022 having held advisory roles in the UK Government and European Commission, including as senior advisor for the COP26 climate conference at HM Treasury and head of international green finance at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. He started his career as a commodities and climate reporter, covering energy and carbon markets in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Georgia has worked at UK Finance since 2018 and is the Commercial Director of the Commercial Delivery Team. Leading on UK Finances strategy and delivery of events, training and commercial partners which support UK Finances member and industry activities. 

Georgia has over 15 years’ experience in commercial events, holding a variety of position within finance, retail and pharmaceuticals, with her previous role being at the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) looking after all member event activity and marketing.

Sarah is Managing Director of Corporate Affairs and Strategic Policy and is responsible for the overall strategy and delivery of UK Finance’s external activity including press and campaigns, UK and international advocacy, regulatory policy, sustainability policy, content, design and marketing.

Prior to joining UK Finance, Sarah was Director of Media Relations at London Stock Exchange Group and has worked across a range of corporate affairs and policy disciplines at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Association of British Insurers. She also worked as press secretary to Andrew Bailey as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, acting as his Special Adviser when he then became the FCA’s Chief Executive.

Rhiannon joined UK Finance’s predecessor in 2010. Rhiannon leads work on topics such as CBDC, stablecoins and cryptoassets, and provides thought leadership on policy issues in payments and cash more generally. She has previously led work on Open Banking, SEPA, government engagement as a user of the payment systems, digital ID, and card payments.

Prior to joining UK Finance, Rhiannon completed an MPhil at Cambridge.

Marcelino joined Shawbrook as CEO in June 2021. Marcelino has a wealth of financial services experience across both retail and commercial banking, including senior leadership roles at NatWest and Santander in Retail and Commercial banking. Building on his experience at The Boston Consulting Group, working across multiple sectors and geographies, Marcelino has overseen significant digital and customer-centric transformation during his time at Shawbrook. Marcelino holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, a Masters in Industrial Engineering (ETSII, Madrid) and a bachelor’s degree in physics (U. Complutense, Madrid). 

Laura joined UK Finance in August 2024 as Director, Resilience & Cyber, and is responsible for the development and delivery of sector specific strategies, maintaining active senior-level engagement with government, regulators, consumer advocates and policy makers on a range of issues to ensure the resilience of the financial services sector, which is critical to the stability of UK markets and the broader economy. This includes delivery of improvements via the Cross Market Operational Resilience Group (CMORG), and its sub-groups, and ensuring an efficient execution UK Finance’s Sector Response Framework (SRF) responsibilities during a systemically important operational disruption. Laura started her career as a Chartered Accountant at Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers, specialising in technology audits and consulting engagements. Laura has significant experience and expertise in Operational Resilience and Cyber Security and has held a number of senior roles at Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC and Vocalink across a variety of disciplines including Risk Management, Transformation and Major Change Programmes, Operations, and Cost and Vendor Management.

Solange Chamberlain is Chief Executive Officer of NatWest’s Retail business. She is responsible for overseeing the strategy, operations and performance of the bank’s retail franchise as well as the payments businesses. Solange and her teams lead the activity and innovation that powers the experience of over 18 million customers.
Prior to her current role she was NatWest’s Group Director, Strategic Development, responsible for working with the executive leadership team to put in place and progress the bank’s strategy alongside leading the Climate and Sustainable Banking agenda. Solange has strong track record in strategic transformation, digital and balance sheet management. She was also previously the Chief Operating Officer of NatWest’s Commercial & Institutional (C&l) franchise, playing a leading role in bringing together the businesses supporting the bank’s customers from entrepreneurs and start ups through to multi-nationals and financial institutions. During this time, she was also the Group’s representative on RBS International Board.

Daniel leads UK Finance’s Economic Crime cross-cutting policy, advocacy and public/private partnership activity. 

Daniel joined UK Finance in 2017 and his previous leadership experience include as Director responsible for the organisation’s work on LIBOR transition, supporting firms across our membership during this change.  As Director, Commercial Finance, he also previously led on a range of commercial banking activity including stakeholder engagement, access to banking and finance, and regulatory change. 

Daniel started his career in Deloitte’s Banking and Capital Markets group where he served a range of financial services clients in assurance and advisory engagements.  He is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Banker, and a graduate of the University of Cambridge.

In his role as director of commercial, marketing, events and training, Jason has responsibility for designing and building the associate membership programme, now numbering over 200 organisations, which sets out to assist, collaborate, share and inform members. He assisted in merging the commercial functions of four of the six trade organisations when UK Finance was created in July 2017. Jason has almost 25 years commercial experience spanning both marketing and relationship management. He joined the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) in 2008 as commercial director, responsible for the commercial activity covering events, training and associate membership business streams. Prior to that, Jason worked for the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) as head of marketing for 14 years, gaining an MA in Marketing and receiving Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Chartered Marketer status.

Simon is responsible for the strategy, direction, and success of Mastercard in the UK and Republic of Ireland, two dynamic markets at the centre of paytech innovation.

A payment industry specialist, Simon has been at the forefront of changes and innovation in payments. He joined Mastercard in 2014, holding a variety of roles, including leading Mastercard’s relationships with high street retail banks and developing Mastercard’s business with pan-European retail and travel merchants. Prior to that, he spent six years at American Express.

Simon leads a business that enables economic growth by helping people, businesses and governments pay and get paid safely and securely. Simon and his teams believe passionately in the need to foster greater financial and digital inclusion and support small businesses. Mastercard’s Strive UK program has already reached one million entrepreneurs, equipping them with the digital skills they need to grow their business.

Mike has policy responsibility for commercial finance at UK Finance, which covers the corporate and SME markets. This includes engagement with government, regulators and key market stakeholders on access to finance, enhanced customer protection, serving customers better, supporting the economy and competitiveness.

Prior to joining UK Finance, Mike gained over 35 years’ experience in the banking industry at HSBC, in branch, regional and head office roles, including retail and commercial banking, marketing, strategic planning and implementation, e-commerce. He also led on SME, commercial and corporate banking policy issues including the Business Finance Taskforce. While at HSBC, Mike completed two secondments with the London Enterprise Agency and HM Treasury. He is an associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

Lee has worked at UK Finance since 2018 and leads on strategic policy and planning matters. Prior to joining UK Finance, he worked at the Institute of Physics (IOP) where he advocated for policies aimed at increasing spending on scientific research and education, amongst other issues. He also spent three years as a Parliamentary Assistant to an MP, during which time he dealt with a range of policy and political topics. He holds degrees in both history and politics and mathematics.

Matthew is Director of UK Finance’s Invoice Finance and Asset Based Lending area, with particular expertise in supporting small and mid-sized businesses. 

Prior to the formation of UK Finance, Matthew was deputy chief executive of the Asset Based Finance Association (ABFA), having joined as head of government affairs in 2011. He was previously joint head of public affairs at specialist law firm Bircham Dyson Bell, advising clients across healthcare, transport, retail and infrastructure. Before that Matthew was a director at DLA Piper’s global government relations practice, where his clients ranged from financial services businesses to overseas governments. 

Andrew Day, CFA, is Director of the Prudential, Reporting and Taxation department at UK Finance, leading the association’s work on capital, liquidity, market and credit risk, as well as regulatory reporting and taxation across the UK banking sector. He works closely with member firms, regulators and policy makers to shape prudential standards and implementation, helping firms navigate evolving requirements while supporting a resilient, competitive, and customer-focused banking system. Andrew brings two decades of experience and leadership across prudential and treasury risk in both industry and regulation spanning a UK subsidiary of a G-SIB custody bank, a UK commercial bank and an FX and payments institution having previously supervised a variety of banks and insurance companies during his time at the Prudential Regulation Authority.

Yvonne Deane Harte acts as UK Finance’s Director for Secondary Markets and Post Trade processes and leads UK Finance securities tokenisation work. Yvonne joined UK Finance in 2020 having worked both in industry and private practice as a senior counsel solicitor specialising in investment management and financial regulation, advising on DvP trades, MiFID II, accessing new markets, market infrastructure, CASS and Brexit. Yvonne is passionate about advancing industry priorities to ensure the continued success of UK financial services. 

Andy is UK Finance’s Director of Communications.

He joined UK Finance in 2021, initially as Director of Communications, from the consultancy Maitland/AMO, where he advised a wide range of clients on their communications activities. Prior to that he worked at HM Treasury in the financial services policy team, including two years at UK Financial Investments, the body established following the financial crisis to hold the Government’s stakes in the recapitalised banks. He started his career at Barclays working in their corporate banking division.

Aysha is a Director in the Commercial Finance team.  She leads on Regulation (including Consumer Duty and regulation of SME lending), Government Schemes, Restructuring & Insolvency as well as cross-cutting areas including Economic Crime and Innovation.  She chairs several industry groups and works closely with members, associate members and key stakeholders including governmental bodies, regulators and law enforcement.

Aysha is a lawyer with 20 years’ experience, most recently as UK Finance interim General Counsel where she advised on several major industry projects and was heavily involved in the industry’s response to the pandemic.  Before joining UK Finance, Aysha spent many years in private practice and in-house as a competition/commercial lawyer.

Simone is UK Finance’s Managing Director for Membership & Governance and UK Finance’s Chief of Staff.

She leads the organisation’s membership strategy, with the aim of enhancing the breadth and depth of member engagement, while effectively communicating the value proposition to our members. She oversees the organisation’s corporate and member governance functions, ensuring that we work with members in a fair and transparent manner while adhering to the commitments set out in the Member Governance Charter. She also leads UK Finance’s business planning activities.

Simone is a qualified solicitor with over 20 years' experience in financial services regulation. Before joining UK Finance in October 2023, she held various senior roles at the Financial Conduct Authority and the Financial Ombudsman Service. Previously, she worked in São Paulo for BNY and Crédit Commercial de France.

Beth is Director, Membership & Strategic Partnerships leading the Relationship Management team at UK Finance and is responsible for the overall strategy and delivery of our Relationship Management Approach. This includes building long term strategic partnerships to maximise member value, championing the member voice and contributing to the future direction of membership at UK Finance.  Beth is also responsible for the acquisition of prospective members and growing the membership proposition as we seek to ensure we are representing the depth and breadth of the Financial Services industry.

Prior to UK Finance, Beth worked as a Senior Consultant, Financial Services in Global Executive Search, responsible for securing and delivering search projects for executive team members, at the CBI as Assistant Director, Financial Services and held a variety of roles in both Relationship Management and Commercial Partnerships in the Financial Services industry.

Alastair is a member of UK Finance’s Executive Committee, chairs the Operations Committee and has overall responsibility for Finance, HR, IT, Risk, Legal, Procurement, Facilities and Hospitality.

Prior to joining UK Finance, Alastair was the finance director at the media and communications regulator Ofcom. As a chartered accountant with a career spanning over 25 years, Alastair has held a variety of senior finance roles in both financial services and the telecommunications sector and has considerable experience of leading and managing organisational change and transformation. Alastair is also a non-executive director at UK Coaching, chairs the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee and is also a member of the Governance Committee for the charity.

Lee heads up the Data and Research team, which is responsible for gathering, analysing and producing commentary on a range of data series covering payments, business and personal finance. Her focus is on ensuring the information requirements of members are met, supporting advocacy priorities and monitoring developments in the UK economy. The team also supports the broader research activities across UK finance. 

Prior to joining UK Finance, Lee was Deputy Director at the Enterprise Research Centre and previously Chief Economist at Make UK.

Nuala Jackson is Director of Payments at UK Finance, she is responsible for driving co-ordination and collaboration across the industry to respond to the regulatory, legislative and industry change agenda for payments in the UK and Europe.

Nuala joined UK Finance in 2022 bringing 20 years of banking and financial services experience and is experienced in the delivery of complex change within a highly regulated environment.  

Prior to joining UK Finance, Nuala worked for Santander (UK), where most recently she was responsible for the UK Payments Change Roadmap, delivering some of the most complex and far-reaching changes the banking industry has seen in more than a generation.

Before, Santander (UK), Nuala spent several years working at HSBC in a variety of roles across the Group.

Toby is UK Finance’s CTO and has overall responsibility for the development and successful implementation of the UK Finance IT strategy and roadmap. Toby is also responsible for managing the day to day delivery of business-critical systems and IT services, ensuring that through agile and flexible technology solutions, the IT function helps enable UK Finance to achieve its goals.   

Prior to joining UK Finance Toby was in executive leadership positions, spanning various sectors overseeing Europe-wide IT operations. Offering strategic solutions to progress and improve business practices and solutions, Toby was responsible for overseeing complex IT programmes, instructing large teams, embedding best practice principles and overseeing the development of entire IT platforms. 

In his role as managing director of personal finance and prudential regulation, Eric is responsible for all everyday banking matters, including cards, complaints handling, conduct regulation, consumer credit, payments, savings and supporting vulnerable customers across retail and private banking portfolios.  His brief also covers prudential, regulatory reporting and taxation matters across the sector.

Eric is accountable to bank and building society CEOs for the development and delivery of sector specific strategies, maintaining active senior-level engagement with politicians, regulators, consumer advocates and policy makers on a range of issues to support the economy, serve customers better and earn trust in the sector. 

Eric is a chartered banker, a non-executive director at Registry Trust Limited, a vice president at the institute of Customer Service and previously held non-executive roles Buckinghamshire Building Society, Lending Standards Board, African Caribbean Westminster Initiative and the government’s Credit Union Expansion Project and Regional Growth Fund.

Jana is the Managing Director for Payments and Innovation at UK Finance where she leads discussions on payments, fintech and digital agendas. 

Before joining UK Finance, she was head of the Worldpay (then FIS) Global Government Affairs team, shaped competition and regulatory policies at the Financial Conduct Authority and Payments Systems Regulator and prior to that supported companies across public and private sectors globally through her various roles. 

She has added commercial credentials delivering and implementing policies in practice, holds several board positions and works with a number of charities.

Giles is Director of Campaigns at UK Finance. He is responsible for planning and delivering the organisation’s  communication activities to promote campaigns on behalf of the banking and finance industry. He was previously the Head of Press and Campaigns.

Before joining UK Finance, Giles worked in the press offices at the communications regulator Ofcom and the Department for Education. He began his career working in radio as a producer at LBC.

Kerstin joined UK Finance in July 2025 as Director of International Affairs. She leads the organisation’s work on international policy and engagement, shaping the UK’s global financial relationships and championing the voice of UK Finance’s internationally headquartered members. Her team is focused on positioning the UK as the world’s most open, globally connected, and competitive financial centre.

Prior to joining UK Finance, Kerstin was Director of Policy and Innovation at the City of London Corporation, where she led its global financial services policy work. She previously served as Head of Policy at TheCityUK and has also held roles at the German Permanent Representation to the EU, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Prague, and the Schwarzkopf Foundation in Berlin.

Phillip is Director for Digital Technology and Innovation at UK Finance. 

He has a particular focus on how legislative and regulatory policy impacts digital transformation in finance and banking. He works across the digital transformation landscape on digital identity, AI, new digital money, tokenisation, open banking and data protection. 

His previous role focussed on influencing payments strategy and regulation in the UK. Phillip has a public policy background with previous roles at HM Treasury and in local government. 

He currently sits on the FCA Innovation Advisory Group.

Richard joined UK Finance in August 2018 and has over 25 years’ experience, principally within the professional and financial services industries. In his career to date Richard has worked at Abbey National plc (now part of Santander), Shawbrook Bank, Aldermore Bank and HSBC, and has been the CFO of Rivington Street Holdings plc (a small conglomerate) and Oakam Limited (a sub-prime lender). He has significant international experience, including four years in Bermuda and New York with EY and PwC, respectively. Richard  is a qualified chartered accountant.

David is the Managing Director for Resilience and Cyber, Commercial Finance, and Data and Research. David leads on policy and other activities relating to commercial banking, invoice finance and asset-based lending, as well as operational resilience. David also leads on ensuring our data and research function is providing our members will valuable insights and strengthening our advocacy activities. David was previously a Policy Director in the FCA and before that spent nearly 2 decades as a civil servant, mostly in the Treasury. During that time David played a leading role in the design and delivery of many financial service polices, including leading on Covid loans policy throughout the pandemic, as well as leading on government policy around access to finance for SMEs.

Ruth joined UK Finance’s Economic Crime team in March 2025 to lead the organisation’s Fraud remit, advocating on behalf of members, and working collaboratively with public and private sector partners, in the collective fight against fraud. She became Managing Director, Economic Crime in February 2026. 

Previously Ruth sat on the Executive Committee as Data Strategy Director (and previously Programme Director) at Cifas and held other senior roles at Motor Insurers’ Bureau and Insurance Fraud Bureau, leading on all things data management and counter-fraud. 

Ben Ruffels joined UK Finance as Director of Public Affairs in August 2024. The public affairs team manages UK Finance’s corporate relationships with key stakeholders across government, parliament and the wider policy community, sharing information and insights on financial services’ contribution to building a better society, and advocating on members’ key UK priorities. 

Before joining UK Finance, Ben led the in-house government relations functions at payments companies Volt and Checkout.com, and UK retail bank Virgin Money. He started his career in public affairs consultancy, advising clients across a range of sectors – including banking, mortgage lending, transport and leisure – on their government and regulatory advocacy.

Alyson is responsible for all operational and strategic HR matters at UK Finance. She has almost 20 years’ experience working in HR and her expertise includes employee relations, talent management, organisational design, workforce planning, restructures and reorganisations, learning and development, culture and change management, diversity and employee engagement. Prior to joining UK Finance Alyson gained extensive experience in the professional services sector at Capita, Colliers, Hogan Lovells and Accenture. Alyson holds a BA in Politics and Sociology and is CIPD qualified. 

Julie leads the Primary Markets and Corporate Finance team at UK Finance, which focuses on policy relating to primary equity and debt market issuance and public M&A. This work brings together ECM/DCM practitioners and M&A practitioners and legal specialists from across our membership and associate membership to discuss and address a range of public policy issues, spanning the breadth of the UK’s regulatory environment for listings, public capital raising and public M&A, including the Edinburgh reforms.

Julie has a wealth of experience in this area, having worked as a lawyer for over 20 years at (amongst others) Linklaters and Goldman Sachs and latterly as a policy expert within the FCA’s Capital Markets Policy team, where she led on various aspects of primary markets policy. Julie sits on the editorial board of the Capital Markets Law Journal.

Julie is also an experienced accredited Executive Coach.

Lucy is Director of Content for UK Finance where she leads on internal and external content and channels, in addition to marketing strategy and implementation.

Lucy has over 20 years’ experience in content strategy and implementation from a variety of sectors including the Financial Conduct Authority, Department of Work and Pensions, various charities and the National Union of Students.

As Director of Personal Banking, Peter leads policy work focused on conduct regulation, retail savings and investments, financial capability and inclusion, and customers in vulnerable circumstances. He also supports UK Finance’s work on private banking and wealth management business and maintains active senior-level engagement across members, regulators, politicians and consumer advocates.

Peter worked for the British Bankers' Association (BBA) for ten years, moving to UK Finance on its inception in 2017. As senior policy director, his responsibilities included retail savings and investments distribution/advice and relations with the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. Prior to this he spent seven years in retail supervision at the Financial Services Authority, and before that Peter worked in investment banking for ten years in debt and derivatives trading roles.

Chris is the Chief Operating Officer for EMEA responsible for developing and implementing business strategy and overseeing the business operations in the region.

Chris is originally from New York and has worked in the Global Financial Services industry for twenty-seven years. He joined Morgan Stanley in 2000 and has held positions in New York, London, Hong Kong and Frankfurt. He is a member of the European Operating Committee, EMEA Executive Risk Committee, EMEA Franchise Committee, EMEA ESG Oversight Committee and sits on several internal and external board seats. Chris most recently served as COO of Institutional Securities Group – Continental Europe.

Chris’s tenure at the firm includes five years in Morgan Stanley Electronic Trading (MSET) where he held regional and global roles primarily focused on client trading infrastructure and risk systems. Chris has spent nearly ten years in Business Unit Risk Management covering market, non-market, operational and regulatory risk. Chris also served as COO of Institutional Securities Group – Asia for five years and was an active member of Asia’s Management Committee, Operating Committee, Asia Franchise Committee and Diversity Advisory Council, as well as holding several board seats across the region.

Chris is married and has three children, aged 18, who attends New York University, and 16 (twins) who attend The American School in London.

Simon Bladon is PayPal UK Chief Executive Officer, and Vice President of Global Entity Management. Simon was formerly a Managing Director at Barclays with over 20 years’ experience in strategy, legal, transformation and operations leadership roles across corporate, consumer banking and payments. He has also worked as a financial markets solicitor in London, Sao Paolo and Madrid.

Currently CEO of Revolut in the UK, Francesca is a growth-leader and entrepreneur with almost 20 years of experience in financial services. Before joining Revolut in December 2023, she was CEO of Molo, the UK’s first digital mortgage lender, a company which she founded in 2017 and grew successfully to exit in 2023. Previously Francesca had held several senior roles in some of the largest banks in Europe, including Deutsche Bank and Barclays. She started her career in consulting and private equity at McKinsey & Co. and Bridgepoint Capital between London and Milan. 

She holds a PhD in Banking and Finance from the University of Rome, MBA (Hons) from Columbia University, Diploma from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Francesca was nominated a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2014. 

When she is not busy with work, Francesca enjoys spending time with her two sons, playing the piano, travelling and playing any type of sport.

Thierry d’Argent was appointed as the CEO of SG London Branch and Chief Country Officer for SG in the UK & Ireland in May 2023. Thierry is a member Executive Committee of Société Générale’s Global Banking and Investor Solutions division; he is also a member of the Group’s Management Board.

Thierry was previously Société Générale’s Global Head of Coverage and Investment Banking; he was also Deputy Head of the Global Banking and Advisory business unit. In this role, he has advised some of the largest corporations and financial institutions across Europe, Asia, Latin America and the United States.

Thierry joined SG in Paris in early 2009 as Managing Director, Mergers & Acquisitions; in 2010, he was appointed Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions; in 2012, he added responsibility for Equity Capital Markets, forming Corporate Finance. In 2015, he was appointed to the Group Management Board, and in early 2016 as Head of Coverage and Investment Banking. In 2019, he became Deputy Head of Global Banking and Advisory. Thierry started his career as a management consultant with Oliver Wyman in London in 1989; he then served as deputy Cabinet Director in the Brussels Federal Government between 1991 and 1992; he worked with Baring Brothers (subsequently ING Barings) in Paris between 1992 and 1998. In late 1998, Thierry joined J.P. Morgan, as an M&A practitioner, where he became a Managing Director in 2001, in charge of their Investment Banking practice in France.

Thierry is a supervisory board member of Le Palais Royal, L’Académie de Musique de Paris and serves on the advisory board of the French-German Economic Council. He served for 4 years on an Advisory Commission of France’s Autorité des Marchés Financiers (Commission Opérations et Emetteurs).

He graduated summa cum laude from the Solvay Business School, University of Brussels (1984-1989). He is married with four sons.

Tiina Lee became Citi’s Chief Executive Officer in the UK on 16 October 2023. Prior to joining Citi, Tiina was at Deutsche Bank where she was the Chief Executive Officer for the UK & Ireland with responsibility for all of the bank’s activities in the region, since 2018. Tiina served as Chair of Deutsche’s UK & Ireland Executive Committee, Chair of the London Branch Board of Senior Managers and General Manager of Deutsche Bank AG London Branch. Prior to that she served as Deputy CEO and Head of Global Markets, UK. Through her 33 year career in investment banking she has run trading and capital markets businesses and served as Head of UK Strategy and Chief Operating Officer for the UK. Tiina began her career at Hill Samuel Bank and Lehman Brothers.

Tiina sits on the Leadership Council of TheCityUK, a leading industry body. She is also a board member of UK Finance. She has been involved in many philanthropic endeavours, currently serving on the Board of Trustees of Donmar Warehouse Projects.

Hannah is American Express’s UK Country Manager and Senior Vice President leading the UK issuing business. She is also chair of the board of AESEL. 

Prior to this in her 16 years with American Express Hannah has held roles across the consumer, commercial and merchant services organisations. Most recently she led product, brand and marketing for the UK consumer, including responsibility for the lending business. She has held local, regional and international roles including responsibility for EMEA consumer business development, regional acquisition and loyalty strategy, international registered card operations, analytics and marketing excellence.

Saif Malik is Chief Executive Officer, UK and Regional Head, Client Coverage, UK & Turkey. In this role, he leads the management and development of corporate and financial institution client relationships in the UK and Turkey.

Saif joined Standard Chartered in 2006 and has held various leadership roles across the client business including Regional Co-Head of Global Banking for Africa & Middle East, Co-Head of Wholesale Banking with Standard Chartered Nigeria and Head of Corporate & Institutional Clients with Standard Chartered Malaysia. Prior to his current role, Saif was Global Head of our multinational corporate business (Global Subsidiaries).

Before he joined Standard Chartered, Saif held roles with Barclays Bank Tanzania, Barclays Bank Zambia, as well as a brief stint with the Central Bank of Zambia.

Saif is a passionate advocate for a sustainable, diverse and an inclusive global future. He possesses a wealth of Banking and Finance experience in the areas of sales & business development, marketing and corporate credit.

Saif holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Master of Arts in International Business, both from the University of Kentucky, USA.

Mickey serves as the CEO of Leumi UK, a leading middle market finance boutique in the UK and in Europe and a subsidiary of Israel’s largest financial group, Bank Leumi, rated ‘a’ with c.£150b of assets. Founded in 1902 in London, with offices in London and in Brighton, Leumi UK is a leading finance boutique in the property, hotels and asset-based lending sectors. Over the past three years, Mickey has embarked on a 360 strategic review underpinning a refocused strategy to three said sectors, eliminated multiple business lines, and positioned Leumi UK as the GO-TO funding partner in the middle market space while acquiring/expanding relationship with blue-chip customers, doubling loan book to c.￡2b in that period and driving record profits. In addition, he helped design, execute and complete in less than a year a change management strategy encompassing (1) banking permit return (2) incorporation as a credit company (3) outsourced cloud-first digital & operational transformation with substantial gains and (4) a new performance and engagement-led people strategy.

Previously, Mickey held senior executive roles with Bank Hapoalim as head of international banking (Europe, U.S. and Turkey) , ABN AMRO Bank Asia (Hong Kong) as head of strategy and business development and Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore & Hong Kong) as global markets structurer.

Mickey started his career as a software engineer.

Mickey holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from INSEAD.

Jas Singh is CEO, Consumer Relationships at Lloyds Banking Group, where the teams support c 25m retail customers. The team are transforming the future of retail banking as they design the next generation of personalised experiences and propositions, while enhancing the Group’s digital and face to face experiences.

Jas has worked at Lloyds Banking Group for 19 years and has held a number of roles across the Group’s Consumer and Small Business businesses. His previous experience was in consulting roles, based in the US and across Europe, with a range of corporate strategy and digital design consulting projects across multiple industry sectors.

Jas is also on the Board of UK Finance and is supporting the UK government in its financial inclusion strategy. Jas was awarded an OBE for his contribution to financial services during COVID-19. 

Vathany Vijayaratna is the CEO for the UK and Ireland at Deutsche Bank (DB). In this role she oversees DB’s activities in the region and chairs the UKI Executive Committee and London Branch Board. 

Vathany has over 20 years of experience at DB, predominantly in Fixed Income and Currencies, where she held a variety of roles and was Global Head of FIC Structuring, before becoming the Head of Non-Financial Risk for the Investment Bank in 2022. She joined DB in 2002 as in-house counsel and moved to the front office as a structurer in 2006. Prior to DB, she worked as a lawyer at Linklaters. Vathany holds an MA in Law from Oxford University. In addition, Vathany sits on the Leadership Council of the industry body, TheCityUK.

Stuart Haire is Group Chief Executive Officer at Skipton Building Society. Stuart is a seasoned executive in financial services having held senior leadership (SMF) positions in two of the UK’s leading financial institutions and now as Group CEO at Skipton Group.

Prior to this Stuart was leader of the Direct Bank for personal and SME customers of NatWest, RBS and Ulster Bank. Additionally, Stuart had responsibility for designing the future of the Retail Bank franchise and sponsoring customer-led innovation.

Previous roles in FS included executive responsibility for Credit & Operational Risk (as CRO), Compliance, Product & Commercial Performance, Strategy, Capital Management and Treasury.

Claire Peel is Chief Financial Officer for Barclays UK, an Executive Director of the Barclays UK Board, and a member of the Barclays UK Executive Committee.

As an Executive Director of Barclays UK plc, Claire has statutory responsibility for governance, financial stewardship, and the long‑term sustainability of the business. In this capacity, she contributes to Board oversight of strategy, capital adequacy, risk appetite, and regulatory engagement within a complex UK regulatory framework.

Prior to Barclays, Claire was Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Group Executive Board at DWS Group, a listed global asset manager. As Head of the CFO Division, she was responsible for Finance, Tax, Capital, Planning, Risk Management, and Investor Relations. Claire began her career at Deutsche Bank on the graduate programme and brings extensive and broad experience across Finance, Strategy, Technology, and Operations, spanning asset and wealth management, investment banking, and, more recently, UK retail banking.

James is former Deputy Chair of Policy and Resources at the City of London Corporation, serving on its Finance and Investment Committees. He is Chair and board member of the City of London Police Authority Board, having previously chaired its Economic and Cyber Crime Committee, and is a non-executive director of the Serious Fraud Office, where he chairs the Audit and Risk Committee.

He was formerly Chair and Chief Executive of MJ Gleeson plc and Chief Executive and CFO of Keepmoat. Earlier roles included CFO and Finance Director of DTZ, senior corporate development work at Smiths Group, and investment banking positions at HSBC and Deutsche Bank, including three years in South Africa advising the ANC led Mandela Government of National Unity.

A Chartered Accountant, James qualified with PwC in 1992, specialising in financial services audit, restructuring and insolvency. He is also a board member of the City Bridge Foundation, London’s largest charitable grant-giving body and owner of the City’s five bridges.
 

Clare is Chief Executive of Citizens Advice and leads the national charity and network of local Citizens Advice charities across England & Wales. Through 1:1 advice, online support and advocacy, Citizens Advice gives individuals the knowledge and confidence they need to find their way forward and speaks up on their behalf to bring about wider change. 

Clare was previously a civil servant for 35 years, latterly as Permanent Secretary of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2015 to 2019, and of the Department for Exiting the EU until its closure in January 2020.  

After leaving the Civil Service, Clare chaired the Health Foundation’s Covid-19 impact inquiry before joining Citizens Advice in 2021.  She is the senior independent member of Westminster Abbey’s Board, a trustee of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Treasurer of the History of Parliament Trust.