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A highly experienced, dynamic and impactful senior leader, with extensive delivery experience across diverse teams, steering complex transformational business, cultural and organisational change, while working collaboratively in challenging environments. Customer and colleague focussed. Continuous improvement, end to end lens. Proven ability to turn strategy into action, to release value, achieve efficiencies and increase the flow of work.

As Atom Bank Deputy CTO, Paul is responsible for IT Delivery across several technology teams including Architecture, Engineering, Test and Service Transition. With over 20 years’ experience managing transformational change in the FS industry, Paul has found a niche passion with challenger banks and making change happen.

Experienced senior product leader with a demonstrated track record at “Head of” level, across a range of financial services. Strengths include articulate, commercially astute, and highly analytical of customer and market trends.

Tom is a experienced Financial Services Sector Senior Leader and Product Development Specialist with over 17 years of experience within financial services.

During Toms time in the industry, he has been successful in spearheading product development and management strategies within fast-paced ecosystems, ensuring compliance with industry-wide best practices and regulations, providing leadership to large cross-functional teams and departments, empowering organisations to uplift revenues through enriched customer experience and service offerings. Currently Tom is working as the Head of Regulated Advice by Skipton Building Society, the UK’s 4th largest building society with over 1 million members and 88 branches.

Rennie is Head of Philanthropy and chairs Messrs. Hoare Trustees (MHT); this includes the bank’s donor advised fund, the Master Charitable Trust. Previously, he worked at T. Rowe Price and was responsible for relationships with institutional investment consultants in the UK and Europe. Before joining T. Rowe Price in 2011, he spent time at both Threadneedle and Guinness Asset Management. He graduated from the University of York with a BA Hons in Politics and holds the Investment Management Certificate.

Rennie chairs Philanthropy Impact and is a trustee of the David Nott Foundation. He particularly enjoys mentoring the next generation of philanthropists.