Catherine Barber-Brown

Catherine has over 20 years’ experience across strategy, change and capital raising, focused most recently on the mutual financial services sector and growth and transformation of organisations.  She has worked with multiple sectors including financial services, health tech, education, transport, telecoms and health. Catherine is also a Non-Executive Director of Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, a Lay Member of the University of Manchester General Assembly and a co-opted Governor at Gorsey Bank Primary School

Between 2003 and early 2016, Catherine held senior roles at the Britannia Building Society and Co-operative Bank.  She was most recently Head of Strategy for the Co-operative Bank, whilst earlier roles spanned change management and procurement. Prior to this Catherine worked for ten years on capital markets transactions at international organisations Barclays de Zoete Wedd and Credit Suisse.  She now runs her own business advice consultancy.