DIRECTORS AND STAFF


Independent Directors


Gerard Lemos CMG - Chairman


Gerard Lemos is a partner at social researchers Lemos and Crane. He is the Deputy Chair of the British Council, Chair of Akram Khan Dance Co. and Chairman of the Notting Hill Housing Group.


Claire Foster


Claire advises the Archbishops’ Council – the ‘Cabinet’ of the Church of England - with specialist responsibility for Ethics of Medicine and Environmental advice. A former Research Fellow at King’s College Centre of Medial Law and Ethics, Claire sits on the Climate Change Working Party for No.10 and is a Lay Canon at St Paul’s Cathedral. Claire has also recently been appointed as a member of the Gene Therapy Advisory Committee of the Department of Health. Claire taught ethics at A level and at universities and has written two standard textbooks on ‘Ethics of Medical Research on Humans’ and ‘Sharing God’s Planet’.



Claire Ighodaro


Claire Ighodaro is a non-executive Director of the Banking Code Standards Board (BCSB) and of UK Trade & Investment; an Independent Board Member of the DTI (Department of Trade and Industry); and a Council Member of the Open University and of the National Learning and Skills Council. She is also Chairman of the Open University Audit Committee, the UK Trade and Investment Audit Committee and the BCSB Audit Committee.
A past President of CIMA (the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants), Claire Ighodaro is the first woman to lead this organisation, which regulates and examines over 150,000 accountants and trainees in the UK and worldwide.
Until December 2004 Claire was an executive at BT PLC where she held a number of senior posts including Finance Director, Broadband, Vice President Finance, BT Openworld and Head of Group Quality. She also worked in Germany as Programme Director at BT joint venture company, Viag Interkom GmbH.
She is married with three daughters.


Sir Robin Mountfield KCB


Sir Robin Mountfield was Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Office before his retirement from the Civil Service in 1999. He spent most of his career in the Department of Trade and Industry, and was Deputy Secretary in charge of its regulatory functions before moving to HM Treasury in 1992 and to the Cabinet Office in 1995. His current portfolio includes: Independent National Director of Times Newspapers Holdings Ltd, Chairman of the St Katharine and Shadwell Trust, and Council member at Essex University and the British Heart Foundation.


Alan Whiting


Alan Whiting was Director of Financial Regulation, covering banks, building societies and friendly societies, at HM Treasury. More recently, he was Executive Director, Regulation & Compliance at the London Metal Exchange.


Directors representing Sponsors


Adrian Coles


Adrian Coles is Director General of The Building Societies Association.
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....for the BSA website


Angela Knight


Angela Knight is the Chief Executive of the British Bankers' Association.
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Paul Smee


Paul Smee is Chief Executive of the Association for Payment Clearing Services.
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....for the APACS website


BCSB Directors & Staff


Robert Skinner - Chief Executive & Director


Robert Skinner spent 26 years working for Barclays Bank and held a number of senior roles in Large Corporate, International and Retail banking, including UK Personal Sector Network Director and Marketing Director for the Private Banking division. Prior to joining the BCSB he spent 3 years as Director General of the Money Advice Trust, a charity that provides advice to over-indebted individuals, via National Debtline and training and support to money advisers working in the not-for-profit sector.


 

Adrian Lloyd - Enforcement & Regulatory Affairs Director


 

Sue Scott - Head of Policy & Legal


Compliance Team

Paul Smith - Head of Compliance Monitoring


Angela Amess - Compliance Manager


Ian Connacher - Relationship Manager


Alan Dengate - Relationship Manager


Michael Merry - Relationship Manager


Rhonda North - Relationship Manager


Elizabeth Thompson - Relationship Manager


Operations and Finanace Team

Gaye Kirby - Operations & HR Manager

 

Julie Huxen - Administration Manager


Helpdesk Team

Jane McCue - Senior Helpdesk Manager

 

Jack Hadlington - Helpdesk Manager

 

Hilary Putt - Helpdesk Manager