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.
Tracy French
Chief people officer
Skills and experience
Tracy has over 25 years’ experience in Human Resources with expertise in the area of transformation and change, M&A, organisational effectiveness and talent management. Before she joined Arrow, Tracy held senior roles in a number of service and retail organisations including Virgin Media, Npower and Assurant, she was also director and owner of Joint Resolutions Ltd. Tracy has a broad background of private equity, listed and privately-owned business experience from retail banking, insurance, mobile, utilities and food services. Tracy holds an Honours degree in Business from the University of Central England.
Dave Sutherland
Group chief operating officer
Skills and experience
Before joining Arrow, Dave was the UK Managing Director at Neilson Financial Services (NFS). Before joining NFS, he spent four years as Chief Operating Officer at TD Wealth International and was responsible for Customer Services, Global Trading, Operations, Technology, Shared Services and Business Change.
He has also previously worked as COO for Santander Cards UK, COO and Transformation Director of GE Money’s UK Card Services, 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
Group general counsel and Company secretary
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
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.
