Management
Nationwide is run day-to-day by a senior management team overseen by an elected Board of Directors.
Board of Directors
1. Geoffrey Howe
Group Chairman
Geoffrey Howe joined the Board in 2005 and became Chairman of the Society in July 2007. He brings considerable regulatory, management and legal experience to the Board. He is currently Chairman of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc and a director of Close Brothers Group plc. Geoffrey was formerly Chairman of Railtrack Group plc, a director of Investec plc, a director and General Counsel of Robert Fleming Holdings Limited and Managing Partner of international law firm Clifford Chance.
2. Graham Beale
Chief Executive
Graham Beale joined the Society in 1985. He is a chartered accountant by training and was appointed to the Board as Group Finance Director in April 2003. He took up his current role as Chief Executive in April 2007. Prior to his appointment to the Board, he worked extensively in the Finance function and held a number of senior, general management positions within the Society. He is a member of the Financial Services Practitioner Panel.
3. Michael Jary
Non Executive Director
Michael Jary joined the Board in January 2009. He is a Partner of OC&C Strategy Consultants, a global strategy consulting firm with 15 offices worldwide, and served as Worldwide Managing Partner of the firm from 2005 to 2011. He is an advisor to the boards of leading retail and consumer companies in Europe, the USA and Asia. He is a regular commentator on the retail industry, the co-author of a number of books including "Retail Power Plays" and a guest lecturer at INSEAD Business School. He is also the Chairman of Duchy Originals and of The Prince's Social Enterprises.
4. Tony Prestedge
Chief Operating Officer
Tony Prestedge was appointed to the Board in August 2007 and was previously Executive Director Group Operations of Portman Building Society. He has held a number of senior executive roles at Barclays PLC, including Managing Director Home Finance and Retail Support and Operations Director. He was a member of both Woolwich PLC and Barclays Retail Banking Executive Committees. Tony is accountable for the Group's Operational Transformation and his divisional reports include Customer Operations, Technology, Transformation Delivery and Business Services.
5. Mark Rennison
Group Finance Director
Mark Rennison is a chartered accountant who joined the Society and was appointed to the Board in February 2007. He is responsible for Finance, Treasury, Risk Management, Strategy & Planning, Internal Audit and Business Protection. He is a director of various Society subsidiaries. Prior to his appointment, Mark was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he worked in the financial services practice with a specific focus on retail and corporate banking. He has also worked extensively with group treasury operations, leasing and asset finance businesses.
6. Chris Rhodes
Executive Director Group Product and Marketing
Chris Rhodes is a chartered accountant who joined the Society in April 2009 from the Santander Group, where he was Director of Retail Distribution for Alliance & Leicester. Prior to that he held a number of Board positions at Alliance & Leicester, including Group Finance Director and Managing Director of Retail Banking. Chris is responsible for Mortgages and General Insurance, Savings and Investments, Banking (current account, credit cards and personal loans), Commercial and Lending Control together with Group Marketing.
7. Suzanna Taverne
Non Executive Director
Suzanna Taverne joined the Board in 2005. She brings expertise in strategy, finance and management. She is currently a director of FCE Bank plc, a trustee of the Foundation for Credit Counselling and the Design Museum. Suzanna was formerly Chair of Gingerbread, Operations Director of Imperial College London, Managing Director of the British Museum, Director of Strategy at Pearson plc and Finance Director of The Independent. She also worked for Saatchi and Saatchi plc and S.G. Warburg & Co Ltd.
8. Robert Walther
Deputy Chairman and Senior Independent Director
Robert Walther joined the Board in 2002 and became Deputy Chairman in 2006. His background is in investment and insurance. Robert is a former Chairman of the Nationwide, Portman, Derbyshire and Cheshire Pension Funds, Fidelity European Values plc and JPM Claverhouse Investment Trust and a former non executive director of BUPA. He was Chief Executive of Clerical Medical from 1995 to 2001 which he joined in 1965.
9. Matthew Wyles
Executive Director Group Distribution
Matthew Wyles was appointed to the Board in August 2007 and was previously Executive Director, Group Development at Portman Building Society. Prior to joining Portman in 1997, Matthew's career was in general insurance, latterly as Executive Director, Global Reinsurance Division at Willis plc. Matthew is responsible for the branch network, the Group's call centres, online channels, and Group Intermediary Sales across all of the Group's brands. Matthew was Chairman of the Council of Mortgage Lenders during 2009 and 2010.
10. Roger Perkin
Non Executive Director
Roger Perkin joined the Board as a non executive director in April 2010. Roger is a former partner at Ernst & Young LLP and has spent 40 years in the accounting profession. During his time at Ernst & Young he worked with many blue chip clients and advised boards across the spectrum of financial services, including banking, insurance, fund management and private equity. He is also a non executive director at Electra Private Equity plc and The Evolution Group plc, and chairs the audit committees of both companies. Additionally, he is a trustee of two charities, Chiddingstone Castle and Crime Reduction Initiatives.
11. Alan Dickinson
Non Executive Director
Alan Dickinson joined the Board in June 2010. Alan has spent more than 40 years in banking, originally joining the Royal Bank of Scotland in 1973, having started his career with Westminster Bank in 1968. He is an experienced retail and corporate banker and a former Executive Committee member of the RBS Group and Chief Executive of both RBS UK and the Bank's market leading UK Corporate Banking business. Alan is also a non executive director of Carpetright plc and Frogmore Property Company Limited, a governor of the charity Motability and Treasurer of Surrey County Cricket Club.
12. Mitchel Lenson
Non Executive Director
Mitchel Lenson joined the Board on 18 July 2011. Mitchel has spent nearly 30 years in the financial services industry and is a former Group Chief Information Officer at Deutsche Bank with responsibility for IT and Operations for all operating divisions of the bank, including its retail banking operations. He has also served as MD, Global Head of Operations & Operations IT at UBS Warburg and a Director, Group Operations at Credit Suisse First Boston. More recently Mitchel was a partner of Olivant & Co, an investment company providing strategic and operational expertise alongside investment capital to financial services businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.
13. Lynne Peacock
Non Executive Director
Lynne Peacock joined the Society on 18 July 2011. Lynne, a former Chief Executive UK of National Australia Bank (NAB) and Chief Executive of Woolwich plc, has over 25 years' senior management experience in a range of roles comprising brand development, mergers & acquisitions, change management and business transformation, including 15 years at board level. During her time at NAB, Lynne was responsible for its businesses in the UK consisting of the Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank. She became Chief Executive of Woolwich plc in October 2000 following its takeover by the Barclays Bank Group, having previously held a number of senior management and board positions at the Woolwich Building Society, both before and after its conversion to a public listed company in 1997.
Senior management team
Graham Beale
Chief Executive
Mark Rennison
Executive Director Group Finance and Risk
Chris Rhodes
Executive Director Group Product and Marketing
Matthew Wyles
Executive Director Group Distribution
Tony Prestedge
Chief Operating Officer
Graeme Hughes
Group Director, HR, Customer Experience & Corporate Affairs
Iain Laing
Chief Risk Officer
Alison Robb
Group Director, Financial Reporting, Strategy & Planning
Tony Alexander
Group Risk Director
Larry Banda
Divisional Director, Branch Network (North)
Martin Boyle
Divisional Director, Business Transformation
Mark Goldman
Divisional Director, Central Retail
Bryce Glover
Divisional Director, Commercial
Jenny Groves
Divisional Director, Customer Experience
Greg Heaton
Divisional Director, Branch Network (South)
Terry Kaye
Divisional Director, Customer Operations
Liz Kelly
Divisional Director, Group Legal & Compliance ( General Counsel)
Phil McCabe
Divisional Director, Core Platforms
Andy McQueen
Divisional Director, Customer Strategy and Marketing
Richard Napier
Divisional Director, Mortgages and General Insurance
Steve Nowell
Divisional Director, Business Protection
Anne Obey
Divisional Director, Audit (Chief Internal Auditor)
Graham Pilkington
Divisional Director, Banking
Lee Raybold
Divisional Director, Financial Performance
Peter Stafford
Divisional Director, Govenance & Risk, Group Operations
Andy Townsend
Divisional Director, Treasury
Simon Waite
Group Secretary