Susan joins Succession in January 2019 as Chief Risk Officer. She will also be member of the Board of SHJL. Susan will be responsible for leading the Group’s Compliance and Internal Audit teams and for the development of governance and risk management arrangements to cater for the growth and expansion of the business.
Susan is a highly experienced governance, risk management and regulatory compliance professional with a proven track record of building Risk & Compliance functions. She has a deep understanding of Financial Services regulation, having worked as a banking regulator and a regulatory consultant.
Susan joins Succession from Tilney Group where she was the Risk Director. Prior to that she was CRO and a partner in Ardevora Asset Management LLP. Susan’s other in-house roles have included Risk & Compliance Director at Equitable Life and Group Compliance Director at Royal & Sun Alliance Group. Susan began her career as an economist at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand before moving into banking regulation, firstly at the Reserve Bank and then as a secondee to the Banking Supervision Division of the Bank of England. She left the Bank to join KPMG as a risk and regulatory consultant before moving into in-house risk and compliance roles.