Board of directors
Introducing our Board and Senior Leadership Team
In line with building our pan-European investment and servicing platform, the Board is confident that we have the right team in place, with the required skills and experience, to deliver the next phase of Arrow’s growth story.
Jonathan Bloomer MBE
Non-executive Chairman
Appointment
5 October 2013
Committee membership
Nomination (chair) and remuneration
Skills and experience
Jonathan has a wealth of experience in the financial services industry and has significant board experience both as an executive and non-executive. His previous positions include chief executive of Prudential Plc, Chair of the employee benefit business of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Plc, senior independent director of Hargreaves Lansdown Plc, Chair of the Practitioner Panel of the FSA, board membership of the Geneva Association and membership of the code committee of the Takeover Panel.
External appointments
Jonathan is currently chair of Morgan Stanley International, chair of Shepherd Direct Ltd, chair of DWF Group Plc, and director of Change Real Estate Limited.
Lee Rochford
Group Chief Executive Officer
Appointment
3 January 2017
Committee membership
Disclosure (chair)
Skills and experience
Prior to joining Arrow, Lee was chief financial officer at Virgin Money between 2013 and 2015, seeing the Group through its successful IPO and subsequent Stock Exchange listing. Before this, he held a number of roles at RBS between 2007 and 2013, culminating as managing director and head of the Financial Institutions Group. A significant amount of his focus from 2008 onwards was advising banks and non-bank lenders on balance sheet restructuring after the global financial crisis and subsequent new capital regimes, as well as working with funds and other buyers of assets from the lending industry. Earlier in his career, Lee was managing director of Wachovia Securities’ Principal Finance team, managing director and head of European asset finance at Credit Suisse, and head of Northern European securitisation at BNP Paribas.
Lee has a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University.
External Appointments
None.
Andrew Fisher
Non-executive director
Appointment
9 December 2016 (Andrew Fisher became senior independent director on 28 May 2019)
Committee membership
Audit (chair), Remuneration, Nomination, Risk and Disclosure
Skills and experience
Andrew, a chartered accountant, was the finance director of Provident Financial plc until he stepped down in December 2018. He has spent over twenty years as a finance director of major-listed companies where he has accumulated broad international experience and a considerable depth of knowledge across a variety of consumer credit asset classes. Prior to working in the financial services industry, he was a partner with Price Waterhouse LLP.
External appointments
None.
Lan Tu
Non-executive Director
Appointment
9 March 2015
Committee membership
Remuneration (chair), Audit, Nomination and Risk
Skills and experience
Lan is currently chief executive officer of Virgin Money Unit Trust Managers, a joint venture between Virgin Money and Standard Life Aberdeen, having joined Standard Life Aberdeen as chief strategy officer in April 2016. Before this, she spent over ten years at American Express in a variety of senior leadership roles. Until 2015, Lan ran its Emerging Payment and Services business in Europe, Middle East and Africa; was the general manager for its UK and Nordics Merchant Services business; and previously led its international strategic planning group. Previous experience also includes twelve years at McKinsey & Company, working primarily in the financial services sector.
External appointments
Lan is chief executive officer of Virgin Money Unit Trust Managers Limited and non-executive director of Kings College London.
Maria Luís Albuquerque
Non-executive Director
Appointment
7 March 2016
Committee membership
Audit, Nomination and Risk
Additional board role
Board representative for workforce engagement.
Skills and experience
Maria Luís was Portuguese minister of state and finance from 2013 to 2015, and deputy minister for treasury from 2011 to 2013. She has held a number of senior finance/treasury positions in the Portuguese public sector, including head of issuing and markets at the Portuguese treasury and debt management agency, and director of the department of financial management at REFER, the rail infrastructure company. She is an economist who lectured in Universidade Lusíada of Lisbon from 1991 to 2006.
External appointments
Member of the European commission high-level forum on capital markets union. Chairs the sub-group focusing on the area of “Investment choice and accessibility to capital markets services to promote greater retail investors’ participation”.
A member of the advisory board for INDEG-ISCTE executive education.
Paola Bergamaschi Broyd
Non-executive Director
Appointment
17 June 2020
Committee membership
Risk (chair), Audit and Nomination
Skills and experience
Paola has broad experience of international financial services, including capital markets and asset management. Until May 2020, Paola was a member of the Board of Big Society Capital where she was interim Chair of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee during 2018 and 2019. Also, until October 2019, Paola was a Non-Executive Director of Millennium & Copthorne Hotels. Her appointment brings over 30 years’ of financial services experience to Arrow with roles having included senior positions at State Street, Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs.
External appointments
Paola is currently on the board of BNY Mellon International, Arca Fondi SGR and Wells Fargo Securities International where she is also Chair of the Remuneration Committee. She holds positions on a number of risk and audit committees as part of these roles.
Matt Hotson
Group Chief Financial Officer
Appointment
08 October 2019
Committee membership
Disclosure
Skills and experience
Matt is a highly experienced finance professional, having worked for more than twenty-five years at leading FTSE 100 companies. His experience spans core finance, strategy, investor relations and business leadership. In 2019, he joined Arrow from RSA Insurance Group plc, where he was chief financial officer, UK and International. Prior to this, Matt was at Cable and Wireless Worldwide plc, following fourteen years at Legal & General Group plc where he held a variety of senior finance and business roles. Matt holds Masters degrees in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and Neuropharmacology at the Open University, and is currently studying for a PhD in Digital Economics at Exeter University.
External appointments
None.
