Meet our Board members
Our Boards lead Monzo and are ultimately responsible for helping us achieve our mission in a way that aligns with our values.
Our Board
We have a mirror board structure in place at the moment, where the Board of Monzo Bank Holding Group Limited and Monzo Bank Limited have the same directors, because the interests of both companies are closely aligned.
Gary Hoffman
Chair of the MBHG and MBL Board of Directors and Independent Non-Executive Director
Gary joined Monzo on 1 February 2019 and also chairs the Group Nomination and Governance Committee. He started his career at Barclays where he stayed for 25 years. He took on several senior roles before becoming the CEO of Northern Rock, steering them successfully through the 2008 financial crisis.
He then went on to become the CEO of NBNK Investments and later CEO for Hastings Insurance Group, which he led through an IPO, as well as serving as Non-Executive Chair of Visa Europe and Non-Executive Director of Visa Inc. Gary has extensive experience in financial services including retail banking, insurance and consumer lending. He’s led significant growth stories and turnarounds while innovating along the way.
Fiona McBain
Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
Fiona joined our Board on 1 January 2020. She’s the Board’s Senior Independent Director (SID) and Chair of our Group Audit Committee. She has more than 35 years of regulated retail financial services experience, in industry and as an auditor, both in the UK and US.
Fiona brings wide-ranging strategic and operational experience at both board and senior executive management level. She was Chief Executive of Scottish Friendly Assurance Society Ltd operating across the UK and the Republic of Ireland for 11 years.
Amy Kirk
Independent Non-Executive Director
Amy joined our Board on 24 January 2017 and also served as Chair of our Group Remuneration Committee for the whole of the last financial year (2023/24). She brings more than 25 years of UK and international retail banking and consumer lending experience.
She’s held executive positions in lending, risk and operations at Wonga Group Ltd, OneSavings Bank plc and Bank of America Europe Card Services. Before she moved to the UK, Amy was the Director of Credit for the largest credit card issuer in the United States, MBNA America. Amy also has deep experience in credit and fraud strategy, and portfolio risk management.
Valerie Dias
Independent Non-Executive Director
Valerie joined our Board on 1 June 2021 and became Chair of our now Group Risk Committee in January 2022. She has worked in the financial services sector for more than 25 years in various leadership roles.
Valerie brings a wealth of finance, risk, governance and operational experience having worked as a senior executive at Visa Europe, first as their Chief Financial Officer and then as their Chief Risk Officer.
Eileen Burbidge, MBE
Investor Non-Executive Director
Eileen joined our Board on 21 April 2015 as a representative for Passion Capital, our major shareholder. As well as co-founding Passion, Eileen also served as HM Treasury’s Special Envoy for Fintech and was previously Chair of Tech Nation and a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group.
Eileen holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has extensive technical knowledge from a broad range of industries including wireless and mobile, internet/digital technology, consumer and enterprise software development and communications. Her particular areas of expertise include product, business, market and commercial development.
Fields Wicker-Miurin, OBE
Independent Non-Executive Director
Fields is our Group Remuneration Committee Chair. She has a wealth of experience from her international executive career spanning financial services, and her 30 years serving as a non-executive director, Senior Independent Director and committee chair on boards in diverse sectors including financial services, media and publishing, the arts, higher education and public policy. Fields has championed ESG throughout her career, being a founding chair of the Sustainability Committee at Scor SE, the Impact Committee chair at CDC and on the ESG Working Group at the Prudential.
Fields recently served for 12 years on the main board of BNP Paribas (Paris), where she built a track record of being an effective and inspirational leader by bringing key stakeholders together to work towards ambitious goals and to achieve great outcomes. Fields is also an OBE, and Fellow of King’s College London.
Lizzie Runham
Independent Non-Executive Director
Lizzie joined our Board on 1 March 2022. She brings more than 20 years of experience helping organisations thrive across highly complex sectors including financial services, pharmaceutical and technology. In addition to the UK, she has a depth of experience in Africa, the Middle East & Asia where she has spent the last 15 years. Her area of specialism is HR strategy and operations.
TS Anil
Group Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director
TS joined our Board on 6 October 2020 and is a highly respected financial services and payments leader with more than 25 years of retail banking experience. As CEO, he brings his expertise from Visa, Standard Chartered, Citigroup and Capital One in roles that have spanned the world, including the US, Singapore, Canada, Japan and India.
He has a wealth of experience launching new products, developing innovative payment technologies, taking existing businesses to new growth opportunities, and much more.
Mark Newbery
Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director of Monzo Bank Limited
Mark joined us in September 2024 and is the Chief Financial Officer for Monzo Bank Limited.
Mark joined us from Barclays, having joined 17 years ago from Citigroup Global Markets. He has had vast experience in various roles spanning CFO for Wealth and Investment Management, Head of Business Development for the US Wealth Business, Controller for Barclays UK, and also Group Head of Strategy and M&A.