Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia

Biography

Dame Jayne-Anne is the Lead Non-Executive at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), and is Chair of Moneyfarm, Senior Independent Director at the Tate and a Senior Adviser both at UniCredit and at Vanquis Bank.

From 2007 to 2018 she was the CEO of Virgin Money.

A chartered accountant, she spent 6 years at Norwich Union (now Aviva) before becoming one of the founders of Virgin Direct in 1995. Three years later, she set up the Virgin One account, which was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2001. She subsequently spent 5 years at RBS before returning to Virgin as CEO of Virgin Money.

In 2012 Jayne Anne led Virgin Money’s acquisition of Northern Rock before listing the combined business in 2014. In 2018, the combined Virgin Money business was sold to CYGB. Following the sale of Virgin Money, Jayne-Anne joined Salesforce from 2019 to 2021. She left Salesforce to focus on her own fintech, Snoop, which was sold to Vanquis Bank in July 2023.

From 2016 to 2021 Jayne-Anne was the UK government’s Women in Finance Champion and continues to support and promote the Women in Finance Charter as an adviser. In 2018 she was named Leader of the Year at the Lloyds Bank National Business Awards.

She sits on the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board and the Financial Inclusion Policy Forum. Jayne-Anne was awarded a CBE in the 2014 New Year’s Honours list, made a Dame in the 2019 Honours list and awarded a CVO in the 2022 Birthday Honours List.