Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia

Dame Jayne-Anne is Chair of Moneyfarm, Ozone API, Alpha FX and Shakespeare’s Globe, Lead NED at HMRC and Senior Independent Director at the Tate. She is also a Director at PRA Group. From 2007 to 2018 she was the CEO of Virgin Money.

A Chartered Accountant, she spent six years at Norwich Union (now Aviva) before becoming one of the founders of Virgin Direct in 1995. Three years later, she set up the Virgin One account, which was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2001. She subsequently spent five years at RBS before returning to Virgin as CEO of Virgin Money. In 2012 Jayne Anne led Virgin Money’s acquisition of Northern Rock before listing the combined business in 2014. In 2018, the combined Virgin Money business was sold to CYGB.

Following the sale of Virgin Money, Jayne-Anne joined Salesforce from 2019-2021. She left Salesforce to focus on her own fintech, Snoop, which was sold to Vanquis Bank in July 2023. From 2016 to 2021 Jayne- Anne was the UK Government’s Women in Finance Champion and continues to support and promote the Women in Finance Charter as an advisor. In 2018 she was named Leader of the Year at the Lloyds Bank National Business Awards. She sits on the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board.

Jayne-Anne was awarded a CBE in the 2014 New Year’s Honours list, made a Dame in
the 2019 Honours list and awarded a CVO in the 2022 Birthday Honours List.