Bio

Chief Data Officer, Board Advisor, NED, Change & Transformation, Regulatory Change, Automation and Innovation Leader Head of Data & Digital practice at Grant Thornton. Previously Deputy Chief Data Officer at Barclays Uk and head of regulatory change leading a team of 200. Member of Business Banking ExCo and Chief Data Office ExCo. Chair of the BUK Regulatory Forum & Deputy Chair of BUK Data Management Council. Established Chief Data Office for Barclays UK and developed the foundations for Data Quality, Governance, Management and Lineage. Delivery Accountable for Barclays UK’s preparedness and response to Brexit Steering committee member with FCA & Bank of England on Digital Regulatory Reporting Developing and Leading the Barclays Reg-Tech proposition (including machine learning, machine executable rules and data models) covering Regulation to Controls & Regulation to Reporting Experience in setting up and managing efficient & automated Regulatory Operations - (FATCA, GDPR, KYC) - both onshore/offshore Established the Regulatory Framework for Barclays UK and Barclays Corporate and Chair of the Regulatory Committee Established Innovation Team (UK & India) covering Data Analytics and Data Science to solve complex problems including integration of internal and external data Experience working with complex organisations including Barclays, Lloyds Bank, BP, Shell, De Beers, Deutsche Bank, Unilever, Marks & Spencers, RSA , Abbey National, Kuwait Petroleum, Saudi Aramco & London 2012 Olympics Led projects across Europe, Middle East, Africa and North America.