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.
Lee Rochford
Group Chief Executive Officer
Appointment
3 January 2017
Committee membership
Disclosure (chair)
Skills and experience
Before joining the Group, Lee was chief financial officer at Virgin Money between October 2013 and August 2015, seeing the group through its successful IPO and into life as a listed company. Prior to 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.
Andrew Fisher
Senior non-executive director
Appointment
9 December 2016
Committee membership
Audit (chair), remuneration, risk and disclosure
Skills and experience
Andrew, a chartered accountant, was previously the finance director of Provident Financial plc for twelve years. He has spent over 20 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.
Lan Tu
Non-executive director
Appointment
9 March 2015
Committee membership
Remuneration (chair), audit, nomination and risk
Skills and experience
Lan is currently Chief Strategy Officer at Standard Life Aberdeen and previously had over ten years of experience in senior leadership roles within American Express. 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. Prior experience also includes twelve years at McKinsey & Company, working primarily in the financial services sector.
Maria Luís Albuquerque
Non-executive director
Appointment
7 March 2016
Committee membership
Audit and risk
Skills and experience
Maria Luís was Portuguese Minister of State and Finance from July 2013 until November 2015 when there was a change of government in Portugal, and Deputy Minister for Treasury from June 2011 to July 2013. She had previously 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 state-owned rail infrastructure company. She is an economist who also lectured in Universidade Lusíada of Lisbon from 1991 to 2006.
Stewart Hamilton
Company Secretary, Group Chief Legal and Risk Officer
Appointment
24 September 2013
Committee membership
Disclosure
Skills and experience
Stewart has over 16 years’ experience as a solicitor in corporate and commercial law. He joined Arrow from Addleshaw Goddard in 2011, where he worked principally on private company acquisitions and disposals and public fund raising, as well as gaining direct experience with the Clydesdale Bank plc and FTSE listed healthcare company, Assura Group Limited.
Stewart holds an M.A. (Hons) in economics and law from the University of Edinburgh and previously worked at Linklaters LLP and Baker & Mckenzie where he was based in London and Tokyo.
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 25 years at leading FTSE100 organisations. 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, following 14 years at Legal & General Group plc where he held a variety of senior finance 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.
