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CWN's board is elected by the membership. It is comprised of experienced senior women who shape and drive the strategy and mission of the network. |
India Gary-Martin
President
India Gary-Martin’s career in the financial services sector spans nearly twenty years. She is currently Global Head of Location & Vendor Strategy for Investment Banking Technology and Operations at JPMorgan.
Prior to joining JPMorgan, India ran the Asset Protection Scheme for Global Markets at the Royal Bank of Scotland. Over the course of her career, she has held both global COO and CIO roles at Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers and has held postings in New York, London, Frankfurt and Tokyo. During her time in Japan, India also taught Practical Performance Management and Corporate Strategy at Temple University’s Tokyo satellite.
She began her career at Morgan Stanley, in its renowned graduate training programme, where she specialised in Telecoms and latterly moved into Commodities Trading. In May 2007, India was awarded Women in Banking and Finance’s ‘Outstanding Contribution to Diversity’ and in December of the same year she was also awarded Best Female Technologist by European Banking Technology Magazine.
India was recently voted to the Powerlist 2010 which listed her amongst the 100 most influential Black people in the UK. She is also the Chair of the Board of Trustees for LEAP, a UK charity that focuses on helping unemployed people who have difficulty accessing the labour market to develop the skills to achieve long-term, sustainable employment.
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Julia Bond
Vice President
Julia has a 27 year background in Financial Services - the past 22 years as a Managing Director of Credit Suisse where she had primary responsibility as a global Senior Relationship Manager in Capital Markets driving revenues in excess of $300m annually. She has operated at a senior level with a broad international brief and a strong background in Public Sector clients globally. A member of the EMEA Divisional Operating Committee, European Diversity Steering Committee, Business Development Committee and Senior Regional Management sponsor of the Securities Women’s Network.
In addition, Julia has led numerous bank-wide strategies around human capital, diversity, governance and most recently successfully ran Bank-wide cross-divisional client strategies with Asset Management and Private Banking. Julia is a trustee of Womankind Worldwide and Non-Executive Director of Central London Community Healthcare.
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Lisa Bryant
Secretary
Lisa is the Women in Business Director at Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets. She manages the gender diversity strategy for the business including all external partnerships and sponsorships and reviewing female talent management at all levels in the Corporate Bank, from graduates through to Senior Executives. She is focussed on results and has only one goal – to empower women to realise their potential.
Lisa is a member of the Narrowing the Gap Steering Group, sits on the 30% Club Committee and manages the sponsorship for the First Women Awards for Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets. She is also a Fairy Godmother for the Bristol Prom Project.
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Bee Lean Chew
Treasurer
Bee is a partner with West End chartered accountants Wilder Coe. She specialises in audit and financial reporting for the retail and wholesale sectors as well as forensic accounting. Apart from her professional qualifications, Bee also holds degrees in Law and Finance.
She has also, until recently, held the position of non-executive director with the Bromley NHS Trust.
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Santa Gascoigne (née Orlovska)
Technology/Administration Director
Santa is a member of the RSA Group Strategy Team working with the Executive board as well as RSA businesses across the world. Prior to this, she worked as a freelance consultant for companies like The Trainline, Fairtrade and Chapman Black. After university she started her career with OC&C Strategy Consultants where she spent 2.5 years working with many of the FTSE 100 companies and PE Funds on their strategic, operational and due diligence requirements.
Santa is an LSE graduate with BSc in Management Sciences / Operational Research. While at university, she was the president of the "Women in Business” society.
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Gaby Glaesener-Cipollone
Business Committee
Gaby currently works as an independent management consultant, driving business transformation programmes for large finance institutions. She has 20 years of experience at Fortune 500 companies and Big 4 consulting firms, having been previously Partner at Accenture Germany where she lead the workforce transformation practice.
Gaby has also entrepreneurial experience in the pioneering age of Internet: she founded Germany’s oldest running Internet Café and an eBusiness company specialising in corporate Internet solutions and services.
She holds an MBA from INSEAD, France and a PhD summa cum laude in Neurobiology from Technical University Darmstadt, Germany.
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Jennifer Weller
External Communications Director
Jennifer's corporate communications career spans a range of national and international companies; including Shell UK, Cable and Wireless, GE Money, Lehman Brothers, and currently the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. She specialises in corporate reputational communications management across the stakeholder engagement, regulatory affairs, issues and risk management fields for both public and private sectors. Outside of her corporate work, Jennifer is a member of the Royal Society of Arts, offers communications mentoring help to not-for-profit organisations and is also writing her novel.
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Caroline Clark
Membership Committee
Caroline has worked at Kidd Rapinet since the beginning of 1998. She is a qualified Licensed Conveyancer (Specialist Property Lawyer) regulated by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC), with over 20 years experience in the field of conveyancing. She deals with all aspects of residential and commercial property law, but particularly excels in the residential arena. Caroline also has solid on-going experience of enfranchisement work, an evolving area of law.
Caroline approached her qualifications in what, some might say, was the hard way; after an established career in the field of property law, it was evident she had the talent and aptitude to become an exceptional property lawyer. She undertook her qualifications whilst in full-time employment achieving outstanding results in a short period, qualifying in just three and a half years. This was done with the support of her current employees who recognised Caroline’s abilities. This is just one example of how Caroline works well under high pressure, when there is the need for intense focus and immense attention to detail.
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Angela Hackett
Internal Communications Director
Angela is the founder and director of The Way Consulting a Training and Development Company specialising in team and personal development at executive level. Angela works to bring teams into synchronicity and with individuals to secure potential; the emphasis of her work is promoting communication excellence.
After a decade in the public sector Angela qualified as a Psychodynamic Counsellor with complementary qualifications in Stress management, Trauma, and Critical incident debriefing; completing hundreds of hours of clinical practice.
Angela then spent four years in charity management overseeing a counselling project working alongside psychiatrists, politicians, head teachers and business leaders to deliver a meaningful service to young people in crisis.
Outside of work Angela spends her time with her family in Surrey. Angela tries to remain fit in order to keep up with her family whilst skiing and has the ambition to still be skiing around the world in her nineties.
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Brenda Trenowden
Professional Development Committee
Over the past 22 years, Brenda has established a strong track record in building international investment banking businesses and teams, and managing complex client relationships across the globe. She has lived and worked in North America, Europe and Asia.
During her career, Brenda has worked for some of the world’s largest banks including Citigroup, BNP Paribas and Lloyds Banking Group. She is currently Managing Director, Head of UK and Ireland within the Bank of New York Mellon’s Global Client Management Group.
Brenda graduated with an honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University in Canada and has a Chartered Financial Analyst designation. She is a member of the CFA Institute, a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers and is a Director of Herstmonceux Castle Enterprises. She also sits on the Board of the UK Foundation for the Asian University for Women, the cabinet of the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre in Nova Scotia and the Global Council for Queen’s University School of Business.
Brenda lives in Kent, England with her husband and two children.
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Simona Composto
Social Activities Committee
Simona Composto is an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs where she has been working since the beginning of her career, over 11 years ago. Having held different roles and responsibilities, including co-heading the futures client service team and managing equity clients, she is now part of the sales and relationship management team on the Futures and Options business, responsible for global asset managers and in charge of business development in the Italian region.
Aside from professional qualifications, Simona holds a first class degree in Languages, Economics and Politics, spent a year in the University of Konstanz and is fluent in four languages including her mother tongue Italian.
Outside of work Simona practises yoga and has an avid interest in socio-linguistics.
