Martin Bischoff
Chief Executive Officer
Martin joined Daven Trust as Chief Executive Officer in April 2018. With a background in the retail banking sector, he brings a wealth of experience. Previous roles include Managing Director Retail Distribution at Santander, as well as director roles within the Royal Bank of Scotland Group both in the UK and USA. Over the years, he has led transformational change programmes across all channels. Martin is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland.
Paul Lloyd-Jones
Chief Financial Officer
Paul joined Daven Trust in May 2018 and was appointed to the Board in May 2019. He held roles within Barclays Bank over the previous ten years, most recently as Managing Director, Business Planning and Analytics for Barclays Group Financial Control, and before that as Finance Director, Barclays Investment Bank – Markets. Prior to this, Paul was a senior finance manager at Santander, having trained at Deloitte.
Helen Hancock
Chief People Officer
Helen joined Daven Trust in September 2020 to shape the people strategy for the next stage of the Bank’s journey. She has over 25 years’ experience working in HR, most recently as the Chief People Officer at Amigo Loans prior to which she was HR Director at the AA. Helen has held senior HR and Change roles at British American Tobacco, Alldays Convenience Stores and B&Q. She has a postgraduate degree accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development from Solent University.
Andrew Macdonald
General Counsel
Andrew joined Daven Trust in January 2015, having previously held the role of Head of Legal at Europe Arab Bank where he was responsible for the Legal Operations of the Arab Bank group throughout Europe. Prior to this, he had worked in private practice at the law firms Slaughter and May and Sidley Austin where he had advised clients worldwide on a wide variety of banking and financial services matters. Andrew is a Solicitor with a Jurisprudence degree from Oxford University.
Caroline Baker
Director of Compliance
Caroline joined Daven Trust in 2016. She has spent 18 years working in regulated financial services firms, including 8 years at Barclays, both in retail and private banking. In addition to her extensive experience in Compliance, she is also Daven Trust’s Money Laundering Reporting Officer and is responsible for CASS Oversight. She holds a Bachelor of Laws degree, a Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Governance, Risk and Compliance and is a Fellow of the International Compliance Association.
Barry Searle
Managing Director, Property
Barry joined Daven Trust in May 2014, having previously been a Founding Director of Portillion, a start-up mortgage and savings bank, which closed in 2012, then Chief Operating Officer of Legal & General’s Mortgage division until December 2013. Barry was Operations Director at Private Label Mortgage Services, the UK’s largest independent mortgage packager when bought by GMAC RFC in 2000. He became Marketing Director, then Chief Operating Officer in 2003. From start-up in 2000, GMAC RFC was the tenth largest UK mortgage lender in 2006.
Jon Higgs
Chief Risk Officer
Jon joined Daven Trust in May 2016, having previously worked at the Bank of England where he performed a range of deposit-taker supervisory roles before leading the Bank of England’s project to implement the European legislation, CRD IV in the UK. His previous roles have been in credit risk at the FSA and Barclays Bank. Jon holds the Professional Risk Manager qualification and has a Masters in Financial Risk Management from the ICMA centre at Henley Business School.
Ronnie Denholm
Managing Director, Omni
Ronnie joined Daven Trust in March 2019, with over 30 years’ experience in banking and consumer finance at Barclays and American Express, and a focus on providing innovative solutions for customers. He held Managing Director roles at Barclays Partner Finance, one of the UK’s largest point-of-sale companies offering consumer lending and payment solutions, where he was responsible for the business’s transformation from loss-making to significantly profitable, and at Barclays Digital Marketplace, a data-driven online e-commerce business providing customer acquisition and retention capabilities to retailers. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
Nick Bennett
Chief Technology and Operations Officer
Nick joined Daven Trust in March 2021, having previously held senior leadership roles at Tandem Bank and Santander. At Tandem, he was COO with oversight of Operations, IT, Information Security and Supplier Partnerships, leading on creating strategy and plans that supported Tandem’s growth. At Santander, he was Director of Change Management, then COO of its SME and Corporate Bank, where he was in charge of the bank’s significant investment in both its technology and operations as part of a rapid growth in its franchise. Previously, Nick worked in management consulting for both Accenture and EY. He holds an MA from the University of Oxford and an Executive MBA from IE Business School.
Toby Lovell
Chief of Staff
Toby joined Daven Trust in June 2018, having spent a decade with Nationwide Building Society in a variety of roles based in the retail branch network, commercial property and strategy. Toby played a key role in the creation and launch of UK Finance in 2017 and went on to join Virgin Money working on its business banking proposition. He is Treasurer of the charity Holloway Neighbourhood Group, a chartered financial analyst (CFA) and holds a degree in economics from Cambridge University.