About us

Simon joined Cambridge & Counties Bank when it was formed in 2012, as Non-Executive Director and chair of the Nominations and Remuneration Committee. He was appointed Chairman of the Bank in October 2016.

After leaving the British Army, Simon began his banking career in 1992. He completed his training with Lloyds Bank in 1994 and spent the bulk of his career with Chase Manhattan Bank in London and New York. He also worked with Barclays Bank where he was the regional director for the corporate banking business in Wales and the South West of England.

Simon was a member of the management board of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) from 2013 until 2016 and the director responsible for London, the South of England, and Financial Services.  Prior to that, he spent three years as CBI International Director leading the work of the CBI in support of its members outside Europe.

Simon has recently been appointed as non-executive director to the board of PCF Bank and is also non-executive chairman of RCI Bank UK. He is a trustee of the Wallscourt Foundation, supporting the students and teaching objectives of the University of the West of England, Bristol, and a lay member of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Recruitment and Employers Confederation.  Formerly he was a governor at the University of the West of England and non-executive board member of the Government Office of the South West.

Caroline has over 30 years’ experience in financial services, specialising in marketing and customer experience in both the UK and US. After a decade as Marketing Director of the Legal & General Group, Caroline progressed to become one of the first Customer Experience Directors within the UK Insurance sector. She has since led customer driven change programmes across a range of other organisations in the public and private sectors. Caroline has held several Non-Executive Director positions in the financial services industry and public sector over the past fifteen years. She is currently on the Board of Lifesight Ltd (the Trustee for Willis Towers Watson’s Master Trust pension scheme) as Chair of the Discretions Committee and also on the Board of Alzheimer’s Society as Chair of the Policy, Research and Communications Committee.

Nick joined Cambridge & Counties Bank in January 2020 as Chair of the Board Risk & Compliance Committtee. He has 40 years’ experience in financial services with broad experience of corporate and SME banking, asset & liability management, risk management, trading, and general management.

He started his executive career in 1982 at the Allied Irish Banks Group and served as Group Treasurer, Group Chief Risk Officer and Chief Executive of AIB Group UK. Nick was also director of AIB Capital Markets Ltd, Allied Irish Capital Management Ltd, AIB Group (UK) plc and was a member of the AIB Group Executive Committee before retiring in 2012.

Alongside Cambridge & Counties Bank, Nick is also a Non-Executive Director at Bank Leumi UK plc, Eskmuir Properties Group and Chairman of the Saffron Building Society.

Tim is the shareholder representative of Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he has been Bursar since March 2020. Prior to that, he was Bursar of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge for seven years.

He has 26 years’ banking experience, mainly at Schroders and Citigroup, where he led the Equity Capital Markets Group for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Tim's speciality for 20 years was in financial institutions where he oversaw Citigroup’s equity underwriting activity, recapitalising a wide range of European banks in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. He is also the Treasurer of Gates Cambridge, the charity founded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to support outstanding graduate students’ study at Cambridge University.

Patrick’s executive career spans over 30 years with PwC, where his primary focus was on strategy, performance improvement as well as all things regulatory within the financial services and insurance sectors. During this time, he was the lead in major transformational programmes and worked with large financial institutions to set strategy and transform performance.

Over the last 8 years, Patrick has spent his time as non-executive director and freelance consultant for a number of financial and non-financial services organisations. He joined Cambridge & Counties Bank as Non-Executive director in June 2021, taking responsibility as Chair of Audit from September.  He is currently on the Board as Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee at Brunel Pensions Partnership, is a Commissioner of Historic England and Chair of its Audit and Risk Committee. He is also a Governor of the Cornwall College Group.

Christiane began her technology career in 1980 and has gone from coding, to running a software house, to Chief Information Officer in major financial institutions. In 1994, she founded CWB, a dynamic IT Services company delivering IT projects for Banks for a fixed fee and expanding the business into large software development projects and managed services. The business grew 100% year on year for seven years, gaining many awards on the way before being sold to Thales.

From 2010 to 2015, Christiane advised the Secretary of State Rt Hon Sir Vince Cable and HM Government on how best to support SMEs in finance, export & employment law. As recognition, she was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire for Services to Business.

Alongside her role as Non-Executive Director, Christiane is the co-founder of PYXIS Culture Technologies linking People - Process - Technology to business performance.