Emma provides strategic leadership to LBG Board and senior management on Compliance, Conduct and Operational Risk matters. As the Group’s Chief Compliance Officer (SMF16), Emma is responsible for providing Group wide oversight and constructive challenge to the first line via her team of Risk Specialists.

Emma joined LBG in September 2014, initially holding a number of CCOR roles where she led the oversight of key technology programmes and implemented an industry leading model to enable oversight of our future ways of working. From 2018 to 2021 Emma led the first line risk teams for Group COO Divisions; delivering a re-design of the technology control environment and has supported the Group’s cloud ambitions since 2016 with extensive knowledge of new technologies and control frameworks.

Emma is a highly accomplished senior executive with 10 years’ extensive experience holding senior positions within complex regulated organisations. She has held a variety of Compliance, Risk and Legal Counsel roles which included supporting retail, insurance and investment clients on regulatory compliance issues with particular focus on supporting FCA enforcement actions and formal regulatory processes.