Board & Executive Team
NewDay – Board Members
Sir Malcolm Williamson
Chairman and Non-Executive Director
Sir Malcolm Williamson is the former Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered Bank and President and CEO of Visa International. Knighted in 2007, he is currently Senior Independent Director at Friends Life Group Limited, and Chairman of Cass Business School’s Strategy and Development Board, the Governing Council of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, while also serving as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for The Prince’s Youth Business International. He was also Chairman of Signet Jewelers, Clydesdale Bank/National Australia Group Europe and a non-executive director of National Australia Bank until 2012. He has also previously served as Chairman of CDC Group, Deputy Chairman of Resolution, Chairman of Britannic Group and was a non-executive director of JP Morgan Cazenove Holdings, G4S and the National Grid Group. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees for the International Business Leaders Forum.
James Corcoran
Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer
James Corcoran has over 30 years of global Financial Services experience with large multi-national companies such as American Express, Citibank, HBOS and IBM. James began his career in sales and marketing moving into general management where he has held various senior executive positions over the last 20 years. He has run credit card businesses for First USA/Bank One and Amex and at HBOS his final role was CEO of Distribution, Retail & Insurance Division, prior to which he was Head of their Retail Product business units. James joined NewDay as CEO in January 2009 from Washington Mutual in Seattle where he was President of the Retail Banking Division.Lord John Eatwell
Non-Executive Director
Lord Eatwell is president of Queens’ College, and emeritus professor of financial policy, University of Cambridge. From 1985 to 1992 John Eatwell served as economic adviser to Neil Kinnock, leader of the British Labour Party. In 1992 he entered the House of Lords, and from 1993 to 1997 was Principal Opposition Spokesman on Treasury and Economic Affairs, a position he resumed from 2010-13. He has been a teaching fellow at Harvard University and a visiting professor at Columbia University, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the University of Amsterdam. In 1988 he, with others, set up the Institute for Public Policy Research, one of Britain’s leading policy think-tanks, where he remains a trustee. He was a member of the Board of the Securities and Futures Authority, 1997-2001, and of the Regulatory Decisions Committee of the Financial Services Authority from 2001 until 2006. He is chairman of the Jersey Financial Services Commission. Currently, he is an adviser to E.M. Warburg Pincus & Co. International Ltd.., and to Palamon Capital Partners, LLP. Lord Eatwell is also chairman of the Royal Opera House Pension Fund.
Alan Hughes
Non-Executive Director
Alan is former Chief Executive of First Direct and a General Manager of HSBC. He is currently Treasurer of Loughborough University & member of its Council, chair of Ffrees Family Finance Ltd., and serves as Chair of Leeds University Business School International Advisory Board. He previously served as non-executive director of Capital One Bank (Europe) plc, chair of Walton & Co (Bankers) plc, non-executive director of the Identity and Passport Service, and member of the Cabinet Office Delivery Council. He chaired the Independent Review Panel of the Government’s National identity Card Programme. He was a visiting lecturer at Oxford Saïd and Warwick Business Schools.
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Rupert Keeley
Värde Partners
Rupert is currently a Senior Vice President of eBay Inc and Chief Executive Officer of PayPal Europe based in Luxembourg where he has responsibility for PayPal’s business across EMEA including PayPal’s European Banking and Payments business. He was previously a Section 16 Officer of Visa Inc undertaking a number of senior roles including as President of Visa’s businesses in Asia Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. Rupert was a member of the board of Digital Barriers Plc, an AIM listed technology security company and has served in advisory capacities to Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, Monitise Plc and Yalamanchili International Ptd Ltd. The government of Singapore appointed Rupert as a Non-Executive Director of the Infocom Development Authority from 2001 to 2007 and Rupert was also a Director of the Esplanade Co Ltd in Singapore.
Rick Noel
Värde Partners
Rick Noel is a Partner at Värde and Global Co-Head of Illiquid investments. In that role, he oversees investments in Real Estate, Specialty Finance and Transportation. Rick joined Värde’s Minneapolis office in 1999, opened the Singapore office in 2008 and relocated to London in 2010.
Alison Reed
Non-Executive Director
Alison Reed is an Independent Non-Executive Director and Head of The Audit Committee. Alison has extensive business knowledge and experience from her previous senior business roles as Chief Financial Officer at Marks and Spencer plc and Group Finance Director at Standard Life plc (including Standard Life Assurance Company). Alison is a Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chairman of British Airways plc and also a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee at Darty plc and DRS Data & Research Services plc. Alison was previously a Non-Executive Director at HSBC Bank plc. Alison is also a trustee of Whizz Kidz; The Movement of Non-Mobile Children and a member of the Board of Advisers of Exeter University Business School.
Mary Phibbs
Non-Executive Director
Mary Phibbs is Chair of the Board Risk Committee. She is a Chartered Accountant and Fellow of the ICAEW and ICAA with 30 years of experience in international financial services. She is currently non-executive Director of Novae Group plc, Morgan Stanley International Limited, Morgan Stanley & Co International plc, Morgan Stanley Bank International Limited and Nottingham Building Society. Previously she was non-executive Director of Stewart Title Ltd, the Charity Bank Ltd, Friends Life Group plc and Northern Rock plc during its period of TPO, Interim Group CRO for Allied Irish Banks, Deputy Group Chief Credit Officer, Standard Chartered Bank and held senior positions at companies including ANZ, National Australia Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, KPMG and PWC.
NewDay – Executive Team
James Corcoran
Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer
James Corcoran has over 30 years of global Financial Services experience with large multi-national companies such as American Express, Citibank, HBOS and IBM. James began his career in sales and marketing moving into general management where he has held various senior executive positions over the last 20 years. He has run credit card businesses for First USA/Bank One and Amex and at HBOS his final role was CEO of Distribution, Retail & Insurance Division, prior to which he was Head of their Retail Product business units. James joined NewDay as CEO in January 2009 from Washington Mutual in Seattle where he was President of the Retail Banking Division.Damaris Anderson-Supple
Chief People Officer
Damaris joined to lead the People Team at NewDay from Hill and Knowlton Strategies, where she was Chief Operating Officer and where talent strategy was a key priority.
Damaris has over 20 years of experience in senior leadership roles at Sanofi, Bristol Myers Squibb and Merck. She has strong commercial experience in strategic and general management roles, but has focused latterly on driving a high performance culture through developing people.
Katherine Carlson
Chief Partnerships Officer
Katherine joined NewDay in June 2013. Katherine joined from EE where she spent 3 years as Marketing Director for T-Mobile’s consumer business and latterly for the Prepay and Mobile Broadband business across Orange, T-Mobile and EE. Prior to that she spent 10 years with Capital One UK in a variety of senior leadership roles in Savings, Operations, Risk Management, Regulatory, Marketing and Finance. She began her career training and qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte.
Doug Richards
Chief Financial Officer
Doug joined from CMC Markets, the leading global provider of financial spread betting, CFD and FX trading, where he was Group Chief Executive Officer for three years and Group Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for two-and-a-half years. He started his career with Price Waterhouse in London in 1989 before joining British Gas in 1994 and then Centrica following its demerger where he rose to become a Board Director before joining AWD Holdings as Group Chief Operating Officer and Group Finance Director.
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Stephen Rowland
General Counsel
Stephen joined from Santander, where he was Legal & Compliance Director for the UK Cards business for 2 years. Prior to that Stephen was with GE for 4 years split between the GE Money UK (Unsecured Lending) business where he led the Legal team and the GE Consumer Finance EMEA business where he was Senior Legal Counsel supporting a number of full-service bank acquisitions in emerging markets including Russia & Turkey.
Mark Eyre
Chief Risk Officer
Mark joined from Deloitte, where he was a Director in the Risk and Regulation practice providing advisory support to financial services firms regarding risk management and regulation. He started his career with Barclays Bank in 1990 where he worked for 17 years in a wide variety of roles including customer lending, group-wide change programmes, strategy formulation and concluded as a senior executive within the Group Risk function. Mark then joined RSA, one of the world’s leading multinational insurance groups, where he worked in the group head office on risk and capital management, risk appetite and preparation for Solvency II.
Sanjay Sharma
Chief Operating Officer
Sanjay has more than 24 years’ experience in senior operational roles in international businesses working in India, the Philippines, London and Austria. He joined from Bawag PSK in Vienna where he was Chief Operating Officer and a Member of the Management Board where he helped lead the bank’s transformation agenda. Previously he was Chief Operating Officer at Barclays Corporate Bank where he focused on maintaining the commitment to customer service and building the senior and middle management team. He started his career at Indian technology, engineering, construction and manufacturing company Larsen & Toubro and has also worked for TEMIC Semiconductors and IBM.
