Executive Committee
Executive Committee Members
Dan Olley
Chief Executive Officer
Appointed to the Executive Committee:
August 2023
Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive Officer, Dan was CEO of dunnhumby Ltd from January 2022. Dan joined HL as a seasoned and experienced senior technology leader and has a track record of driving digital transformations in established businesses, including financial services, insurance, business information solutions, research, and healthcare. Dan brings a problem solving and analytical skillset, along with experience of successfully implementing advanced technologies to drive both revenue growth and operational process efficiency and optimisation. During his tenure as an Independent Non-Executive Director of HL, Dan was a Member of the Risk and Remuneration Committees.
Amy Stirling
Chief Financial Officer
Appointed to the Executive Committee:
February 2022
Amy has significant financial and strategic leadership experience in client facing businesses across the telecommunications and financial services sectors. She has considerable transformation and M&A experience at both executive and non-executive level and is a qualified chartered accountant. Amy was previously Chief Financial Officer of the Virgin Group and other previous appointments include non-executive director and chair of the Audit Committee at Pets at Home Group plc, Chief Financial Officer of The Princes Trust and Chief Financial Officer at TalkTalk Telecom Group Plc.
Ruchir Rodrigues
Chief Client and Commercial Officer
Appointed to the Executive Committee:
October 2022
Ruchir is a seasoned business leader with over 25 years in the digital industry. He has a track record of driving large scale digital and commercial transformation at established businesses most notably at companies like Barclays and Verizon. At HL, Ruchir leads the Client and Commercial functions, its strategic direction and its full range of client-focused product propositions including Active Savings, Advice, Fund Management, Investment and Retirement, and Workplace Services.
Recognised as a visionary leader and cultural change agent who inspires teams to deliver tangible impact, Ruchir was instrumental in establishing Barclays as a digital leader in the financial services industry. He is passionate about unlocking the benefits of technology for clients and businesses and has over 25 patents awarded for product and business innovation.
He also serves as an Independent Director on the Board of Institute of Cancer Research (ICR).
David James
Chief Marketing and Brand Officer
Appointed to the Executive Committee:
March 2019
David is responsible for Marketing, Brand & Communications. Prior to joining HL, he was Commercial Marketing Director at Vodafone for 4 years, where he also held the role of Digital Tribe Leader for Customer Segments running the Consumer Mobile and Broadband businesses. He launched and scaled the VOXI brand for the youth segment. Prior to Vodafone, he spent 5 years as Consumer Marketing Director at BT, launching and building market leadership positions for BT Sport and BT Infinity fibre broadband, amongst other propositions. David specialises in building & scaling businesses, growing brands and running customer and digital marketing capabilities. He started his career at NatWest, including two years as a financial adviser.
Shawn Gamble
Group Chief Risk Officer
Appointed to the Executive Committee:
January 2021
Shawn Gamble is the Executive member responsible for Risk and Compliance. Shawn has over 20 years of corporate risk management experience, holding leadership roles at a number of multi-national banks and investment firms and working both in the UK and internationally, including in her native Canada. Prior to joining HL she was CRO of Fidelity International where she was responsible for their global Risk teams.
Amanda Shepherd
Chief Operating Officer
Appointed to the Executive Committee:
July 2021
Prior to joining HL, Amanda worked at Barclays bank, one of the five largest banks in the UK, for over 26 years, where she held a number of roles in key Director positions across multiple business disciplines.
Amanda has extensive experience of managing large and complex teams, defining client relationship segment services, leading businesses through large scale and transformative change and working strategically to influence at the most senior levels both within and outside her organisation. Most recently working as Managing Director for Branch Based Banking at Barclays, Amanda successfully led over 3,000 employees including 9 Directors, across 300 sites, with responsibility for managing over 5 million customer relationships.
Birger Thorburn
Chief Digital and Information Officer
Appointed to the Executive Committee:
September 2021
Prior to joining HL, Birger was Chief Technology Officer at Experian Decision Analytics, part of Experian, developing some of the world’s most advanced technology to derive insight and decisions from data underpinning many of the world’s credit, identity and fraud decisions. There Birger was part of the digital transformation and repositioning of the technology and business towards cloud. Before that Birger has held a variety of senior technology positions, including group CIO at Cable and Wireless Communications.
Claire Chapman
General Counsel, Company Secretary and Chief People Officer
Appointed to the Executive Committee:
October 2021
Claire heads up the Legal, Company Secretariat, Corporate Governance and People functions. Claire has held General Counsel and also Company Secretary roles at a range of companies including most recently at Capita plc and prior to that at Daily Mail & General Trust plc, Inchcape plc and Thomson Reuters. She qualified as a lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Claire has a Masters in International Law and is a qualified Solicitor, England and Wales and additionally Attorney, New York.