Alba's Executive Committee
Our Executive Committee comprises well established and respected leaders from around the financial services industry, bringing years of perspective and a fresh approach. They adopt a 'sleeves up', can-do approach with open communication across the whole Alba team.
Jonathan Thompson
Acting Chief Executive Officer
Jonathan brings leadership experience across start-up, scale-up and established firms to Alba’s commercial proposition, along with deep expertise in UK mid-market debt, corporate finance and capital advisory.
Prior to joining Alba, Jonathan was CEO and Co-Founder of Bank North where he led the Bank from concept, through build and full PRA/FCA regulatory approval, to successful market entry. He was previously Divisional Managing Director at Santander Business (the SME division of Santander UK), having also worked with Deloitte and Lloyds Banking Group.
At Alba, Jonathan is leading the team developing a compelling range of commercial finance products aimed at supporting UK SMEs.
Dominic Wade
Chief Financial Officer
Dominic has more than 20 years' experience working for global and scale up banks. Previously CFO of Unity Trust Bank, he oversaw rapid growth and substantial increases in profitability.
Prior to Unity, Dominic undertook a number of managing director level roles at NatWest, including leading their group cost transformation and their response to Brexit. Dominic has also held senior positions at Credit Suisse, UBS and Merrill Lynch. He has a degree in Accountancy and Management and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
As Chief Financial Officer, he holds SMF2 regulatory permissions and leads our investor relations activity. He also works as part of Alba's Executive Committee to shape the bank's strategy and culture.
Andy Lewis
Chief Risk Officer
Andrew brings over 25 years’ experience in financial services, including Aldermore Bank plc, where he served 3 years as Chief Risk Officer. Prior to that he was an Expert Partner at Bain & Co in their Financial Services & Digital practice and, before that, worked over 20 years in NatWest Group where he held a number of senior business and risk roles, most recently MD, Commercial & Private Banking. He was also Co-Founder of NatWest’s Esme Loans Ltd an award winning SME digital lending platform.
As CRO Andy is focussed on helping create a safe, scalable and sustainable bank, ensuring that Alba has the full confidence and backing of key stakeholders, and offering compelling SME lending and online savings propositions to our customers
Gareth McColl
Chief Operating Officer
Sandeep Kadam
Chief Technology Officer
Sandeep is a technology expert with 16+ years of experience designing and building large, distributed and scalable systems. His speciality is in software architectures with high traffic and global reach. He has also developed high performance mobile and web applications from scratch, and built top caliber technology teams globally.
In his current role, Sandeep is leading the development, integration and deployment of best in class technology to deliver the Alba proposition.
Sue Murdoch
Chief People Officer
Sue has over 25 years experience working across all areas of HR including leading centres of excellence, delivering HR projects and programmes; building and leading HR functions and People Strategies. She creates structurally aligned, commercially focused, flexible and agile HR teams and facilitates a culturally aligned team right across the business.
Sue has worked across a number of different industries including Telecoms, Professional Services, Financial Services and Banking; working in businesses of different sizes, constructs and levels of maturity and latterly leading the HR build for Bank North to support PRA/FCA regulatory approval.
Sue brings to her current role a deep experience and passion for Organisation Design and Development, believing that building the right culture at Alba is paramount to our success.
Non-Executive Directors
The Alba management team is complimented by a vastly experienced group of non-executive directors who provide invaluable support and expertise to the business.
Jim McColl OBE
Shareholder, Non-Executive Director
Jim is one of Scotland’s best known and most successful Businessmen and Entrepreneurs. He is Chairman and CEO of Clyde Blowers and has been the chief architect of its impressive growth record since buying into the business in 1992.
Jim has a wealth of experience investing and operating businesses through many economic and market cycles. In the past 20 years he has invested in 20 platform acquisitions, overseen 15 exits including 2 public listings.
He has led a number of public to private transactions, mergers, demergers, spin outs and turn arounds. Jim is the founding shareholder, director and a driving force behind the creation of Alba.
Anne Weatherston
Independent Non-Executive Director
Anne has recently moved into a full time career as a non-executive director following an extensive executive career which majored on the leadership of business and technology transformation. Anne’s principal expertise is financial services albeit she has worked across a range of industries and in many geographies.
She has led the turnaround of many technology functions within major banks including Abbey/Santander, Bank of Ireland, ANZ and EnergyAustralia. In her last two roles she was responsible for defining and leading an extensive business and IT transformation required to restore organisational stability and control while introducing new digital capability in support of a new business strategy.
Anne is currently a non-executive director of two Australian based Fintech companies; Mint Payments, a listed mobile and electronic payments company and Archa, a start-up focused on the provision of a corporate credit card for SME’s. She has also joined the Board of Piraeus Bank in Greece.