Ian Gorham joined Hargreaves Lansdown in 2009 as Chief Operating Officer and became Chief Executive in September 2010. Ian qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1996. Previously he helped build Deloitte's financial services operations and was Head of Grant Thornton's UK financial services business. Ian has worked with many financial services companies on a wide range of strategic and operational matters. Ian was born in 1971.

Peter Hargreaves FCA - Executive Director

Peter Hargreaves co-founded Hargreaves Lansdown in 1981. Previously, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant and worked for KPMG, Unisys Group and Whitbread Plc. Peter is a non-executive director of ITM Power Plc. Peter was born in 1946.

Tracey Taylor FCCA MSI - Group Finance Director

Tracey Taylor joined Hargreaves Lansdown in 1999 and her responsibilities within the Group since then have included systems, HR, group finance, treasury, client accounting and the company secretarial function. In 2006 Tracey was appointed to the role of Group Accounting Director and to the Executive Committee. In 2008 she was appointed to the Board and the position of Group Finance Director. Prior to joining Hargreaves Lansdown she qualified as an accountant in 1994. Tracey holds an MSc in Finance and is also a Member of the Securities & Investment Institute (MSI).

Michael Evans - Non-executive Chairman

Michael became a non-executive director of the Company in September 2006. Michael is a qualified actuary with 27 years' industry experience. He is also a non-executive director of CBRE Global Investors Group (UK) Limited and Chesnara PLC. He is also a member of the advisory board of Spectrum Corporate Finance and chairs the board of Trustees of Wessex Heartbeat. Michael was formerly Chief Operating Officer at Skandia UK Limited.

Jonathan Bloomer FCA - Senior non-executive Director

Jonathan Bloomer became a non-executive director of the Company in September 2006. He is a former partner of Cerberus European Capital Advisors, the UK arm of Cerberus Capital and has previously been the Chief Executive of Lucida plc and Group Chief Executive of Prudential. He also spent twenty years in practice with Arthur Andersen LLP. Jonathan was Chairman of the Practitioner Panel of the FSA. His previous positions also include board membership of the Association of British Insurers, Geneva Association (International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics), Railtrack plc and Autonomy plc. Jonathan is also a Trustee and the Treasurer of the NSPCC, and non-executive Chairman of JLT Employee Benefits Group.

Chris Barling - Non-executive Director

Chris became a non-executive director of the Company in August 2010. Chris has over 30 years’ IT industry experience and formerly held senior IT roles in Cable & Wireless and Reuters. He has a degree in Computer Science from Brunel University and is the co-founder of Actinic, the software company specialising in ecommerce solutions for SMEs. Actinic went public on the London Stock Exchange in May 2000. He is also co-author of a well respected book on online business. He is the Chairman of Private Software Limited, and wholly owned subsidiaries, including SellerDeck Limited and director of Powered Now Limited.

Dharmash Mistry - Non-executive Director

Dharmash became a director in October 2011. Dharmash is a former partner at Balderton Capital LLC, one of Europe’s leading venture capital firms and a non-executive director at Dixons Retail plc. He has also served on the board of Lovefilm (AMZN) and was Group Managing Director of Emap Consumer Media. He currently also serves on the boards of KupiVip, Achica, Ewise and Mog. He started his career as a Brand Manager at Procter and Gamble, followed by a period at The Boston Consulting group.

Stephen Robertson - Non-executive Director

Stephen became a director in October 2011. He also a non-executive director of Timpson Group plc. Stephen’s career has spanned 14 years on the boards of major UK retailers building on earlier management roles with Mars Inc, Unilever and Alberto-Culver. Stephen served for seven years as Marketing Director at B&Q plc before leading the acquisition of Screwfix Direct which he then chaired. He went on to become Director of Communications at Kingfisher plc and took the helm of the Ellen MacArthur sponsorship, followed by three years at Woolworth plc. He is a former Chairman, and now fellow, of the Marketing Society, and is former Director General of British Retail Consortium (BRC).

Mary Theresa Barry - Group Marketing Director

Theresa graduated with a 2:1 in Politics from the University of Bristol. She joined Hargreaves Lansdown as the first full-time employee in 1982. Theresa has also worked in marketing at Abbey Unit Trust Managers Limited in the City of London. Theresa was born in 1958.

Nigel Bence - Chief Operating Officer

Nigel graduated with a First from Bristol Polytechnic (now the University of the West of England) with a BA Honours Degree in Financial Services. He joined the compliance department of Hargreaves Lansdown in 1992. In 2001, he was appointed to the role of Group Compliance Director, and in 2011 was appointed Chief Operating Officer. Nigel was born in 1971.

Mark Dampier - Head of Research

Mark has a BA Honours in Law, as well as the Investment Management Asset Allocation Certificate and Financial Planning Certificates 1, 2, and 3. Mark began his career in financial services in 1983, working for a London brokerage. He joined Hargreaves Lansdown and the board of Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management in 1998 as research director. Mark was born in 1956.

Alexander Davies – Managing Director - Corporate & Pensions

Alex joined Hargreaves Lansdown in 1999. He has a degree in Politics and International Relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is responsible for the corporate and individual pensions businesses. Alex was born in 1975.

Lee Gardhouse - Investment Director HL Fund Managers

Lee Graduated from Liverpool John Moores University with a BA in Economics. Lee joined Hargreaves Lansdown as a trainee fund manager in 1995. Lee passed the Associate exams of the Institute of Investment Management and Research. He took responsibility for the Hargreaves Lansdown multi-manager fund range in 2001, and manages the Portfolio Management Service. He was appointed investment director of Hargreaves Lansdown Fund Managers in 2006. Lee was born in 1973.

Stuart Louden - Director Library Information Services Ltd

Stuart graduated with a BA (Hons) in Economics and joined Hargreaves Lansdown in 1994 as a trainee fund manager. Stuart passed the Associate exams of the Institute of Investment Management and Research. Stuart formed Funds Library in 2003 to provide data distribution services to Hargreaves Lansdown and other fund management groups. Stuart was born in 1971.

Ian Hunter - Investment Marketing Director

Ian graduated from Bristol University with a 2:1 in Philosophy. He joined the investment helpdesk of Hargreaves Lansdown in 1997 and after three years he moved to our marketing team where he is now responsible for the marketing of all investments and the Vantage Service. Ian was born in 1972 and joined the Board of Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Limited and Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers Limited in July 2009.

Nick Marson - Vantage & Broking Operations Director

Nick joined Hargreaves Lansdown in 1997 initially working in the Stockbrokers Back Office, before moving on to equity and fund trading. He is now responsible for overseeing the operations of the Stockbroking and the Vantage Service. Nick was born in 1978 and joined the Board of Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Limited and Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers Limited in July 2009.

David Davies - IT Director

David joined Hargreaves Lansdown in 2008 as a Networks and Security Manager before promotion to Head of IT in April 2010. He has previously worked for Red Bee Media, EADS, Dimension Data and RAC. David joined the Board of Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Limited in November 2011.

Board Diversity

Lord Davies’ Women on Boards Review (published in February 2011) recommended that Chairmen of FTSE 350 companies should ensure that their boards discuss the subject of female representation on their board, and set out their position. The Board of Hargreaves Lansdown plc has discussed this and has agreed the following statement.

The Board of Hargreaves Lansdown plc is committed to maintaining the highest standards of corporate governance. We regard the composition and the effectiveness of our board as a crucial element of our corporate governance.

When assessing new appointments to our Board, we review carefully the combined skills and experience of the existing Board members to determine what characteristics we are looking for from a new director. Each member of the Hargreaves Lansdown board must have the skills, experience and character that will enable each director to contribute both individually, and as part of the team, to the effectiveness of the board and the success of the Company. We believe that diversity amongst board members is of great value but that diversity is a far wider subject than just gender. We will give careful consideration to issues of overall board balance and diversity in making new appointments to the board.

As of today, the board numbers 9 in total, of which 3 are executive, 5 independent (including the Chairman) and 1 non-independent. Women directors constitute 11% of the board and 25% of the Executive Committee (33% when including the company secretary). Subject to the requirements set out above, Hargreaves Lansdown will aim to maintain female representation on the board at least at the current level and give due consideration to increasing the level if appropriate candidates are available when board vacancies arise.

Michael Evans
29 August 2012