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A customer-focused commercial leader with over 15 years’ experience in both the financial services and utility industries.Gayle has a general management skillset developed through a portfolio of roles and from leading functional areas including: customer, product development, marketing, commercial, operations and change management. Currently working as Chief Marketing Officer at Domestic & General Gayle is most passionate about: 1. Driving positive customer value and experience, 2. Providing great leadership for my teams and 3. Creating a culture of ownership, opportunity and high performance.

Seb is an all round business technology professional who enjoys the Product Development process and building solutions. He has operated across many industries and worked in start-ups, scale-ups and large multinational corporations.

Seb has long history in IT with an initial development background in Computing and Artificial Intelligence and has grown through the various IT disciplines to be in his current role.

Seb is passionate about new ideas in technology, innovation, as well as driving change and making an impact.

He holds a Masters qualification in Knowledge Based Systems, FBCS CITP, a certified PRINCE 2 Practitioner and full member of APM and a TOGAF 8 Practitioner.

Sharon has  a background in economic development, and consistently operating at the most senior levels within organisations, to manage and support large investment projects, enabling job creation and influencing stakeholders to achieve overall vision and success. Having worked with Investment Promotion Agencies around the world, and hundreds of high growth firms, has in-depth understanding and experience of supporting businesses to grow. From start up to scale up, leading highly strategic decision making to achieve business goals and vision.

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.