Our People

Clive was appointed as chair on 12 January 2021.

He started his career as a banker at First National Bank of Boston in 1981 in Boston and London, and in 1984, he joined Booz Allen & Hamilton as an associate and became a partner in the financial consulting practice in 1990.

In 1994, Clive joined HSBC Investment Bank as Director and Head of Planning and Strategy in London with a remit to help with the integration of part of James Capel. He moved to New York in 1996 to be the deputy CEO of HSBC Inc and Head of Investment Banking in the US. In 1999, he was appointed Chief Executive of HSBC Group Private Banking and subsequently became Group General Manager in July 2001, and Group Managing Director in 2006 on the Executive Committee, of Group Insurance and Asset Management at HSBC Holdings Plc. In 2011, Clive was recruited as group CEO of the Phoenix Group, the UK’s largest life and pensions consolidator. During his time at Phoenix Group, a series of successful acquisitions were made, including AXA Wealth, Sun Life, Standard Life Assurance and the acquisition of ReAssurance from Swiss Re.  Clive is currently a chairman of the Museum of London.

Paul was appointed chief executive in May 2019, having served as managing director of Rathbones Investment Management from May 2018. He was previously group finance director from 2008 to April 2019.

Paul qualified as a chartered accountant with PriceWaterhouse in 1992, subsequently taking up a position in New York before returning to London in 1996. In 1999 he joined Old Mutual Plc as group financial controller, becoming director of finance of Gerrard Limited in 2001. In 2005, two years after the sale of Gerrard, he left to work initially for Euroclear and, subsequently, as a divisional finance director of the Phoenix Group. He was formerly a non-executive director of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.

Iain was appointed as group chief financial officer on 1 January 2024.  Iain served as finance director of Investec Wealth & Investment Limited (IW&I) for more than a decade and was appointed CEO of IW&I UK in February 2023. He brings to his current role his extensive knowledge of the sector along with a wealth of experience of financial and regulatory reporting, corporate governance and risk management.

Iain is a fellow chartered accountant and began his career with Coopers & Lybrand, which subsequently became PricewaterhouseCoopers. Working in the audit practice, Iain had responsibility for managing a varied portfolio of audit engagements which included SMEs and listed companies across a range of sectors. In 2000, he joined BWD Securities PLC, which went onto become IW&I UK, initially as group financial controller with responsibility for the management of the group’s internal and external financial reporting, tax compliance and other financial matters.

Iain was appointed as non-executive director on 5 October 2021. 

Iain is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales with over 35 years of experience working in the financial sector.

He was a partner at KPMG for over 24 years working with banks and other major financial services firms in both audit and advisory roles including three years leading KPMG’s banking audit practice.  His audit roles included large firms in the investment banking sector and listed firms in the wealth, asset management and insurance sectors while his advisory engagements focused on aspects of risk, regulation and internal audit.

He also served for a number of years as Chairman if the ICAEW Financial Services Faculty’s Risk and Regulation Committee and as a member of the ICAEW’s Technical Strategy Board.

Terri was appointed as a non-executive director in July 2018 and is chair of the risk committee.

Terri graduated with a Maths degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is currently a non-executive director on the board of Morgan Stanley International where she chairs the risk committee and is also chair of Morgan Stanley Investment Management Limited. Terri is also a non-executive director Hanover Investors Ltd and, an Associate Fellow at The Saïd Business School at Oxford University and on the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee. Previously, Terri sat on the boards of CHAPS Co and UK Operation Smile and was a founding member of the Women’s Leadership Group for the Prince’s Trust. As an executive, Terri held a number of senior roles at JP Morgan and ABN AMRO before setting up her own consultancy firm.

Sarah was appointed as a non-executive director in 2015 and chair of the Remuneration Committee in June 2017. She was appointed as a designated non-executive director for our workforce engagement in 2019 along with Colin Clark.

She started her career as a consultant at McKinsey and Company and then worked for several years in the telecoms and digital sectors, latterly as chief financial officer of the LCR Telecom Group. In 1999, she joined the internet bank Egg, the internet banking subsidiary of Prudential, where she was responsible for business development and strategy. In 2005, she joined Sanford C. Bernstein and Co, the institutional research and trading arm of Alliance Bernstein, as a banking analyst covering the European banking sector. Sarah is an adviser to early-stage technology companies, and non-executive director of Engine B Ltd.

Dharmash was appointed as non-executive director on 5 October 2021. 

He is currently a board member of Halma plc, the FA (on behalf of Premier League) and the CMA.

Dharmash started his career with Procter and Gamble on their graduate programme and then went on to become a brand manager, followed by a period with Boston Consulting Group.  He spent eight years in the media as Group Managing Director of EMAP Consumer Media and EMAP Performance.

Dharmash is an experienced technology venture capitalist, entrepreneur and non-executive director. He was formerly a Partner at Balderton and Lakestar, leading investments including Revolut, Glovo, Infarm, Blockchain.com and Lovefilm amongst others.  Prior to this he was Group MD of Emap Consumer Media, where he co-led the delisting of Emap PLC from the FTSE 100. His prior board NED positions include: BBC Executive Board, Hargreaves Lansdown PLC and Dixons Retail PLC.

Henrietta Baldock was appointed as a non-executive director on 21 September 2023.

Henrietta has extensive knowledge of the financial services sector, through her 25 years’ experience in investment banking, most recently as Chair of the European Financial Institutions team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where she advised many boards on a number of significant transactions. In 2021, she was appointed Chair of Investec Wealth & Investment (UK). Henrietta’s industry experience demonstrates her valuable strategic and transformation advisory skills.

Ruth Leas was appointed as a non-executive director on 21 September 2023.

Ruth Leas has been with Investec for 25 years. In 2019, Ruth was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Investec Bank plc, the main banking subsidiary of Investec plc, which houses Investec Group's non-Southern African operations (including the UK, Channel Islands, Ireland, US and India). Ruth has deep knowledge of Investec and banking having joined Investec in South Africa in 1998. She moved to Investec in London in 2002 and has had varied experience, with her first 10 years in client facing roles. Ruth became Co-Head of US Principal Finance before joining the Credit team and later becoming Head of UK Investor Relations. She was appointed as an Executive Director in 2016 and was head of risk management before becoming Chief Risk Officer in 2017. Prior to joining Investec, Ruth was the Treasury Economist for Gencor in South Africa. Ruth currently sits on the Cambridge Judge Business School Advisory Board and has sat on the UK Finance Board.