Louise McCarthy

Independent Non-executive Director

Louise was appointed to the Board on 15 February 2021. She is a highly qualified CIO, CFO and business change leader with over 35 years’ experience in large private and public sector organisations, embracing complex technology and digital transformation strategies. Louise started her career in finance and is a qualified ACCA. In recent years, Louise has been IT Transformational / Change Director at HM Revenue & Customs followed by contractor roles as Transformational Director at Aviva , and Specsavers, then CIO Digital Transformation at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Latterly, Louise was contracted to HSBC as COO, Global Group Digital Transformation and was a ‘2017 CIO Women in IT’ finalist, Nominated Leading UK Female CIOs for the last five years and a speaker on Digital Transformation. Currently Louise is a senior advisor in digital practice at Bain and Co.