The Board of Directors

Previously, Chris was Chief Executive of Barclays Commercial Bank and a partner at Goldman Sachs. He served on the Board of BAE Systems from 2013 to December 2023 as a Non-Executive Director and Senior Independent Director. Chris has also served as a member of the corporate Board of Cancer Research UK.

Current external appointments:

• Chair, Evelyn Partners
• Chair, Melrose Industries plc

Chris is our National Authorities Non-Executive Director.

Previously he served as Chief Executive Officer of UK Financial Investments (UKFI), where he was responsible for managing the government’s shareholdings in RBS, Lloyds and UK Asset Resolution, overseeing complex, high-value shareholdings on behalf of the UK taxpayer.

Earlier in his career, Oliver spent over a decade at Bank of America, latterly as Managing Director of Equity Capital Markets for the UK, Ireland, and South Africa. His career has been defined by a strong track record in financial leadership, capital markets, and public sector engagement.

During her time at CIB, Annie was responsible for building the finance, risk management, legal and operations functions to enable the organisation’s investment mandate.

Prior to CIB, Annie spent five years with Aequitas NEO Exchange Inc. (now CBOE Canada), a start-up stock exchange launched in 2015 to compete with the effective monopoly held by the incumbent market player. She also spent nine years with Royal Bank of Canada’s Capital Markets arm, where her career spanned finance, private equity and the institutional equity trading business. She started her post-qualification career at Newcourt Credit Group Inc. (now CIT Group Inc.)

Annie is a Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant and has served on a number of private and public company, as well as non-profit, boards. 

Current external appointments:

• Non-Executive Director, Development Bank of Wales
   

Prior to that, she had a twenty-five-year career in investment banking at Citibank, Goldman Sachs and Ondra Partners advising companies across Europe on financial strategy, capital raising and capital allocation. Also, through providing advice to senior management and boards she developed corporate governance expertise and became a non-executive director on public company boards. She holds a degree in business administration from Bocconi University, Milan.

Current external appointments:

• Executive Director, UK Government Investments Limited

Bridget chairs the M6 Toll Company and Flood Re Limited. She is a Non-Executive Director for Northumbrian Water Limited and AWE plc. Among other roles, she has chaired Atom Bank and the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency and has been Senior Independent Director for Network Rail and Chief Economic Adviser to the Greater London Authority.

In December 2018, Bridget was appointed CBE. She is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Academy of Social Science, and the Society of Professional Economists. She writes on finance, risk, and uncertainty as well as infrastructure and modelling validation.

Bridget has worked extensively on cities, infrastructure, and finance, advising on projects in road and rail and on major property developments and regeneration. She has advised on changes to planning regulation and TfL’s finances and has appeared at planning enquiries.

Current external appointments:

• Chair, M6 Toll Company
• Chair, Flood Re Limited
• Non-Executive Director, Northumbria Water Limited
• Non-Executive Director, AWE plc
• Senior Adviser, Volterra Partners LLP
• Senior Advisor, Prysm Global

Bridget is our Senior Independent Director and Whistleblowing Non-Executive Director.

Prior to 2015 Tania worked for the leading global engineering and technology services company Siemens for 18 years in their logistics, healthcare and energy businesses, where she held a number of finance director roles, including more recently for Siemens’ energy business in the UK and NW Europe.

Her energy experience is predominantly around renewable power generation and decentralised energy systems. Tania is the Chair of ViaNinos UK, a charity supporting street children in Ecuador.

Current external appointments:

• Non-Executive Director, Thrive Renewables plc
• Chair, ViaNinos UK
• Non-Executive Director, Guernsey Electricity
• Non-Executive Director, Energy Systems Catapult Limited
• Non-Executive Director, OCU Group
• Advisor, GIRA Strategic Finance
   

He spent the first half of his career in automotive component manufacturing, including running businesses in Manchester and Hartlepool, and then as part of the MBO team which took TMD Friction private and turned it into the biggest manufacturer of brake pads in the world.

Since 2006 Nigel has been working on how to use the power of business to accelerate the zero-carbon transition, working at the Carbon Disclosure Project, leading the We Mean Business Coalition, launching the Science Based Targets initiative and being appointed as the UN Climate Change High Level Champion for COP26.

Current external appointments:

• Chair, UK Climate Change Committee
• Director, Ice Benchmark Administration Limited
• Founder, Ambition Loop

Nigel is our Climate Non-Executive Director.

Previously she held various board positions including chairing a number of board committees at IDFC Limited (Infrastructure Development Finance Company), IDFC Alternatives (India), Islandsbanki (Iceland), the National Bank of Greece, NLB (Slovenia) as well as Hermitage Offshore. Her executive career was spent at JP Morgan and UBS structuring and raising debt capital for some of the most significant mergers and acquisitions in the Nordic area. She also headed the European operations of Marsoft advising banks and large shipping, oil and raw material companies on shipping strategies and investments. 

Marianne is a Norwegian national holding a M.Sc. degree in Finance and Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration where she also worked as a researcher and taught mathematics and statistics.

Current external appointments

• Non-Executive Director, Norse Atlantic ASA
• Lead Director, Scorpio Tankers Inc
• Independent Director, Professional Welsh Rugby Board

Marianne is our Workforce Engagement Non-Executive Director.

• Chair, Sasol Limited
• Director, Almaz Ltd

Catherine currently Chairs Polar Capital Technology Trust plc and is a Non-Executive Director of Pool Re Insurance Company Ltd, Goldman Sachs International & Goldman Sachs International Bank 

Current external appointments:

• Non-Executive Director, Goldman Sachs International
• Non-Executive Director, Goldman Sachs International Bank
• Non-Executive Director, Pool Reinsurance Company Limited
• Chair, Polar Capital Technology Trust plc
• Independent member, Investment committee for Marie Curie Charity

Tom currently serves as Second Permanent Secretary at the Department for Health and Social Care and will undertake the NED role alongside this position. 

Current external appointments:

• Second Permanent Secretary, DHSC
• Director and trustee. Middlesbrough Football Club Foundation

Joseph is an experienced board member, having served as both an investment director and a non-executive director.  He brings over 25 years of investing and business building expertise as well as strategic insight to NWF’s Board.

Current external appointments:

• Corten Capital, Co-Founder and Managing Partner
• Placeholder Films Ltd, Founder and Director