Hargreaves Lansdown Plc
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Company Profile
We are the UK’s number one platform for private investors. For nearly 40 years, we have helped clients save time, tax and money on their investments. Today we are trusted with more than £120 billion by 1.5 million clients. We are a secure, FTSE 100 company, headquartered in Bristol employing over 1,700 people.
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Sector Finance
Industry Asset Management Services
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Corporate
Board of Directors
Ian Gorham ACA
Chief Executive
Ian Gorham joined Hargreaves Lansdown in 2009 as Chief Operating Officer and became Chief Executive in September 2010. Ian qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1996. Previously he helped build Deloitte\'s financial services operations and was Head of Grant Thornton\'s UK financial services business. Ian has worked with many financial services companies on a wide range of strategic and operational matters. Ian was born in 1971.
Michael Evans
Non-executive Chairman
Michael became a non-executive director of the Company in September 2006 and was appointed non-executive Chairman in November 2009. Michael is a qualified actuary with over 30 years\' industry experience. He is also non-executive Chairman of Zoopla Property Group plc, a non-executive director of esure Group PLC and Chesnara PLC. Michael was formerly Chief Operating Officer at Skandia UK Limited.
Vikki Williams
Chief Operating Officer
Vikki Williams was appointed Chief Operating Officer for Hargreaves Lansdown in June 2015. Vikki joins us from Barclays where as MD she held a number of senior leadership positions in various areas such as Fraud Operations, PPI and Group Operations. Prior to working at Barclays Vikki worked for Hays DX as a Service and Sales Director. Vikki was born in 1970.
Chris Barling
Non-executive Director
Chris became a Non-Executive Director of the Company in August 2010. Chris has over 35 years\' IT industry experience and formerly held senior IT roles in Cable & Wireless and Reuters. He has a degree in Computer Science from Brunel University and is the co-founder of Actinic, the software company specialising in ecommerce solutions for SMEs. Actinic went public on the London Stock Exchange in May 2000. He is also co-author of a well respected book on online business. He is a director of User Replay Limited and Powered Now Limited.
Stephen Robertson
Non-executive Director
Stephen became a director in October 2011. He is also a non-executive director of Timpson Group plc and Clipper Logistics plc, is Chairman of Business West and serves on the advisory boards of Legend Exhibitions and Retail Week. Stephen\'s career has spanned over 15 years on the boards of major UK retailers building on earlier management roles with Mars Inc, Unilever and Alberto-Culver. Stephen served for seven years as Marketing Director at B&Q plc before leading the acquisition of Screwfix Direct which he then chaired. He went on to become Director of Communications at Kingfisher plc and took the helm of the Ellen MacArthur sponsorship, followed by three years at Woolworth plc. He is a former Chairman, and now fellow, of the Marketing Society, and is former Director General of the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
Shirley Garrood
Non-executive Director
Shirley was appointed to the Board of Hargreaves Lansdown plc as a Non-Executive Director on 25 October 2013. From 2009 until June 2013, Shirley was Chief Financial Officer of Henderson Group plc and, prior to that, she had been Chief Operating Officer since 2001. She trained as an accountant with KPMG and is also a Corporate Treasurer. Shirley is currently also a Non-executive director of esure Group plc. Shirley joined the Peabody Trust Board in 2013.
Mark Dampier
Head of Research
Mark has a BA Honours in Law, as well as the Investment Management Asset Allocation Certificate and Financial Planning Certificates 1, 2, and 3. Mark began his career in financial services in 1983, working for a London brokerage. He joined Hargreaves Lansdown and the board of Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management in 1998 as research director. Mark was born in 1956.
Lee Gardhouse
Investment Director HL Fund Managers
Lee Graduated from Liverpool John Moores University with a BA in Economics. Lee joined Hargreaves Lansdown as a trainee fund manager in 1995. Lee passed the Associate exams of the Institute of Investment Management and Research. He took responsibility for the Hargreaves Lansdown multi-manager fund range in 2001, and manages the Portfolio Management Service. Lee joined the Board as Investment Director in 2006. Lee was born in 1973.
Stuart Louden
Director Library Information Services Ltd
Stuart graduated with a BA (Hons) in Economics and joined Hargreaves Lansdown in 1994 as a trainee fund manager. Stuart passed the Associate exams of the Institute of Investment Management and Research. Stuart formed Funds Library in 2003 to provide data distribution services to Hargreaves Lansdown and other fund management groups. Stuart was born in 1971.
Ian Hunter
Investment Marketing Director
Ian graduated from Bristol University with a 2:1 in Philosophy. He joined the investment helpdesk of Hargreaves Lansdown in 1997 and after three years he moved to our marketing team where he is now responsible for the marketing of all investments and the Vantage Service. Ian was born in 1972 and joined the Board as Marketing Director in July 2009.
David Davies
Chief Information Officer
David joined Hargreaves Lansdown in 2008 as a Networks and Security Manager before promotion to Head of IT in April 2010. He has previously worked for Red Bee Media, EADS, Dimension Data and RAC. David joined the Board as IT Director in November 2011. He was presented the award for UK CIO of the Year by Computing in November 2014.
Rob Byett
Group Director of Risk and Compliance
Rob joined Hargreaves Lansdown in March 2014 as Head of Compliance and became Risk and Compliance Director in January 2015. Previously Rob has worked in industry as a Director with responsibility for Compliance, Risk & Internal Audit and has also worked for Deloitte as a Regulatory Consultant, specialising in retail financial services regulation. Rob was born in 1974.
Chris Worle
Group Digital Marketing Director
Chris joined Hargreaves Lansdown in 2003 after graduating from Royal Holloway, University of London with a degree in Management. Chris worked in the pensions marketing team before becoming responsible for the group’s websites and online marketing activities in December 2009. Chris was born in 1982 and joined the board as Group Digital Marketing Director in January 2015.