Directors and Staff
Independent Directors
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The Right Hon the Lord Hunt of Wirral MBE (David Hunt) - Chairman
David Hunt has been a parliamentarian for 36 years, first as MP for Wirral, then moving from the House of Commons to the House of Lords in 1997. He has been a partner in DAC Beachcroft LLP, solicitors, since 1969 and is currently Chairman of their Financial Services Division. He was a Minister in successive governments for 16 years and a member of the Cabinets of both Margaret Thatcher and John Major. He has also been Chair of the Press Complaints Commission since 2011.
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Lady Bloom CBE
Margaret Bloom is a Senior Consultant at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and a visiting Professor at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. Margaret is also the Deputy Chair of the Money Advice Trust and an independent member of the LINK Consumer Council. She is a former Director of Competition Enforcement at the Office of Fair Trading.
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Claire Ighodaro CBE
Claire Ighodaro CBE is a Board member/Non-executive Director and Audit Committee Chair of Lloyd's of London, the British Council, the Open University and the Lending Standards Board. She was previously a senior executive at BT plc, a Board Member of UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) and BIS and is a Past President of CIMA.
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Alan Whiting
Alan Whiting is Chairman and Managing Director of Merlan Financial, he is also Chairman of the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission and NYSE Liffe. Alan was previously Director of Financial Regulation at HM Treasury covering banks, investment companies, building societies and friendly societies. More recently Alan was Executive Director, Regulation and Compliance at the London Metal Exchange.
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Directors representing Sponsors
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Adrian Coles OBE
Adrian Coles is Director General of The Building Societies Association.
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Eric Leenders
Eric Leenders is the Executive Director of Retail of the British Bankers Association.
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the BBA website
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Graham Peacop - The UK Cards Association
Graham joined The UK Cards Association as Managing Director in September 2012.
Graham enjoyed a long and successful banking career in RBS (and NatWest) with over 30 years experience, having developed specialisms in corporate banking and, more recently, card payments. Over the past 15 years he has become a leading card payments industry figure with key representative roles for RBS, including 5 years as Chairman of The MasterCard UK Members Forum.
In RBS, as part of the Card Business management board, he had responsibility for overseeing the Group’s global card scheme, regulatory and industry matters. Before joining The UK Cards Association Graham worked for 2½ years in the UK & Ireland division of MasterCard , as Head of Card Acceptance.
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LSB Staff

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Robert Skinner - Chief Executive
& Director
Robert Skinner spent 26 years working for Barclays Bank and held a number
of senior roles in Large Corporate, International and Retail banking,
including UK Personal Sector Network Director and Marketing Director for
the Private Banking division. Prior to joining the LSB he spent 3 years
as Director General of the Money Advice Trust, a charity that provides
advice to over-indebted individuals, via National Debtline and training
and support to money advisers working in the not-for-profit sector. Robert is also a non-executive director of the Money Advice Service.
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Laura Mahoney - Legal & Compliance Officer |
Compliance Team
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Alan
Dengate - Compliance Manager
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Michael
Merry - Compliance Manager
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Shada Nasrullah - Compliance Manager
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Elizabeth
Thompson - Compliance Manager
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Operations and Finance Team
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Gaye
Kirby - Operations Manager
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Julie
Huxen - Administration & IT Manager
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IMPORTANT LINKS |
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Find out which organisations have signed
up to the Code. |
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An online library of our documents. |
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View our enforcement procedures. |
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The LSB currently has no vacancies. |
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