Our leadership
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.
Lee Rochford
Group Chief Executive Officer
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.
External appointments
None.
Zachary Lewy
Founder and Group Chief Investment Officer
Skills and experience
Zachary Lewy is the Founder and Group chief investment officer of Arrow Global. He was the CEO of the business from its inception until 2011 when Zachary changed the structure to focus on running the investment business. Prior to Arrow, Zachary was an Officer of Sallie Mae, a Director at Vertex (the BPO division of United Utilities), and a Founder and Executive Director of 7C (a U.K. BPO company acquired by Vertex). Zachary has previously chaired SCOR and was also the Chair of the UK Debt Buyers Association. He was named an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2010.
Zachary is on the board of the English National Ballet, the English National Ballet School, and the organising committee for the Marie Curie Charity fundraiser. He graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Economics with Honours and a Certificate in Applied and Computational Mathematics with Honours.
Clare Dyer
Group Chief People Officer
Skills and experience
Clare is a highly-experienced strategic and performance-focused HR Director with a proven track record within the digital technology and media sectors. With more than 20 years’ experience, her expertise includes building agile, simple organisations that deliver purpose and meaning alongside profit and growth. Before joining Arrow in December 2019, Clare was the HR Strategy and Transformation Director at BT leading a number of enterprise-wide programmes to transform the organisation’s operating model. Prior to BT, Clare was the Chief People Officer at KCOM.
Clare is an accredited Executive coach with the International Coaching Federation and is currently studying for a Post Graduate Certification in Coaching and Mentoring.
Dave Sutherland
Group Chief Operating Officer
Skills and experience
Dave has over 20 years' experience operating at board level as Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director. Dave joined Arrow from a fast-growth SME financial services business, where he was Managing Director. Before this, he was the Chief Operating Officer at TD Wealth International. Dave’s experience includes banking and financial services, retail, operations, technology and process transformation. He was previously COO for Santander Cards UK, COO and Transformation Director of GE Money UK and Regional Director for Boots plc. Dave has an MSc. in IT and Management from Sheffield Hallam University and an MBA from the University of Leeds.
Stewart Hamilton
Company Secretary, Group Chief Legal and Risk Officer
Skills and experience
Stewart has over 16 years’ experience as a solicitor in corporate and commercial law. He joined the Group 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 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 14 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.
Oliver Stratton
Group Chief Commercial Officer
Skills and experience
Oliver has over 17 years' experience in financial services. He joined Arrow Global in 2013 and has held various operational and commercial leadership roles including UK COO and UK Country Manager, before becoming Group Chief Commercial Officer in 2019. Prior to Arrow Global, Oliver spent over 10 years as an investment banker with Deutsche Bank and a corporate lawyer with Allen & Overy LLP in London, specialising in UK corporate finance and equity capital markets.
Oliver is a qualified solicitor, holds an LLB (Hons) from the University of Sheffield and the ICAEW's Corporate Finance Qualification, and is a member of the Chartered Institue of Securities & Investment.
