Annie joined the Bank as Chief Financial Officer in September 2022, moving to Leeds from Toronto, Canada. From 2018 to 2021, Annie was one of the first employees of the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB), joining as its inaugural Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer. 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.
Annie is Non-Executive Director of Development Bank of Wales.
