CFO Leadership Network Europe

Finance Director, National Grid and Co-Chair of the A4S CFO Leadership Network Europe

Andrew Bonfield was appointed to the National Grid Board as Executive Director in November 2010. In addition to his responsibilities as Finance Director, he is responsible for Property and Shared Services.

Andrew is a qualified chartered accountant who began his career with Price Waterhouse in South Africa, after studying at the University of Natal, Durban. He joined SmithKline Beecham in 1989, rising to Chief Financial Officer. In 2001 he moved to BG Group plc as Finance Director, and then to Bristol-Myers Squibb as Chief Financial Officer, where he was based in New Jersey, US. In 2009, he joined Cadbury plc until March 2010, on the completion of the Kraft takeover. He is also a non-executive director at Kingfisher plc.
 

Chief Financial Officer, Royal DSM and Co-Chair of the A4S CFO Leadership Network Europe

Member of the DSM’s Managing Board as of 1 August 2014 and Chief Financial Officer as of 1 December 2014, succeeding Rolf-Dieter Schwalb.

Prior to her appointment, Geraldine Matchett was the Global Chief Financial Officer and member of the Operations Council of the SGS Group, a publicly quoted company on the SIX Swiss stock exchange and the world leading company in inspection, verification, testing and certification with 80,000 employees and annual revenues of approximately CHF 6 billion.

Geraldine has three nationalities (Swiss, British and French) and has previously worked in London for KPMG and in Switzerland for Deloitte as financial auditor and audit manager, handling clients in the food, pharma and chemical sectors. She has extensive experience interacting with all relevant stakeholders, has been actively involved in corporate development activities and has managed many areas of the finance function across the world. She was recently voted CFO of the year in Switzerland for large companies.
 

Finance Director, SSE

Gregor Alexander is a Chartered Accountant and was appointed Finance Director of Scottish and Southern Energy plc (now SSE plc) in September 2002, having previously been Group Treasurer and Tax Manager. He has worked in the energy industry since 1990, when he joined Scottish Hydro Electric having qualified with Arthur Andersen. He has Board responsibility for Finance, Energy Portfolio Management, Legal, Regulation, Human Resources, IT, Procurement and other Group Services.

Gregor is Chairman of Scotia Gas Networks which owns and operates the gas distribution networks in Scotland and southern England. He is a past Chairman of the Group of Scottish Finance Directors and joined the Board of Stagecoach plc as a non-executive director on 1 April 2013. 

Chief Financial Officer, British Land

“At British Land we believe that managing environmental, social and economic impacts is central to how we do business. By adding value to assets we also deliver value to our shareholders. This new initiative is an important further step in raising the profile of sustainability issues across businesses. I hope it will help ensure that over time, these matters become embedded within corporate governance and finance teams across businesses and become part of everyday decision making.”

Lucinda has been responsible for leading the finance function at British Land since 2011. She has held a range of roles at British Land in the Group Finance function, including Tax Director. In addition, she sits on a number of industry committees and has previously been a Governor of the University of Westminster.

British Land is one of the UK’s largest listed Real Estate Investment Trusts. British Land owns and develops offices, most notably The Leadenhall Building known as the “Cheesegrater”, and Retail properties across the UK. Managing environmental, social and economic impacts is central to how British Land does business, by adding value to assets and so delivering value to shareholders.
 

Chief Financial Officer, The Crown Estate 

Kate joined The Crown Estate in October 2016 as Chief Financial Officer.

Kate joined from FTSE 100 intu properties plc where she had been Director of Finance. She had previously managed intu’s investor relations after joining in 2000 as Group Financial Controller. Kate qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in 1995, working in their Canadian and corporate finance practices.
 

Group Director of Finance, Pennon Group

A graduate qualified chartered accountant, Susan joined the company in August 2007 from Yorkshire Water where she was Head of Regulation. She is also a council member of Water UK

Susan occupied a number of senior finance posts for Yorkshire Water including Head of Finance in their Waste Water Unit and Head of Finance for Brey Utilities, a joint venture company owned by Yorkshire Water and Earthtech Engineering Ltd.
 

Chief Financial Officer, Siemens Gamesa

Andrew began his international career in R&D in the aerospace industry in Plessey and joined Siemens AG in 1995 as a Sales Engineer in the Telecommunications business before holding numerous senior management positions in Siemens AG Telecommunications headquarters in Munich.

In 2003 he moved into a financial role in the Corporate Finance as Vice President Subsidiaries and Affiliates for APAC, CIS and MEA regions. In 2008 he was appointed Chief Financial Officer for Africa, based in South Africa and in 2012 he was appointed CFO for North West Europe based in the United Kingdom and in 2014 CFO of Lead country United Kingdom.

He currently is the CFO of the Wind Power & Renewables Division at Siemens AG. Andrew holds an MSc in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from the London Business School.
 

Chief Financial Officer, Bupa

Joy brings over 25 years’ experience in financial and strategic roles in Australia and the UK.

Joy joined Bupa in March 2011 as Finance Director of Bupa’s Australian Health Insurance business, later becoming Finance and Commercial Director of Bupa Australia and New Zealand.

She became Bupa’s Chief People officer on an interim basis in 2015, prior to taking up the role of General Manager, Health Services for Bupa UK.

Previously, Joy was CFO of National Foods, one of Australia’s largest food and beverage companies.

She was also a Non-Executive Director of Bega Cheese Ltd, an ASX-200 listed company, serving as Chair of its Audit and Risk Committee.
 

Managing Director of Finance & Non Regulated Business, Anglian Water Group

Scott Longhurst was appointed Group Finance Director of Anglian Water Group (AWG) in November 2004.

In January 2010, Scott was also appointed Managing Director of the Group’s non-regulated businesses in addition to his financial responsibilities. Prior to joining AWG, he spent most of his career with Shell and TXU Corporation. Scott moved from Shell in 2000 to TXU and, from early 2001, was based in Dallas, USA, undertaking the role of CFO for the Oncor Group (a subsidiary of TXU). Oncor comprised the regulated electric delivery and gas businesses of TXU and Utility Solutions – a non-regulated utility services company. In February 2004, he was appointed Group Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of TXU Corporation. Between 1991 and 2000, Scott held a number of financial and commercial roles with Shell encompassing corporate, operating company and joint venture activities across Europe, the Far East and Middle East.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a Non-Executive Director of Candover Investments plc.
 

Chief Financial Officer, Asda

Born and educated to BSc level in Lima, Peru, Alex moved to the UK in the mid 1990s where he has been based ever since. He earned an MBA at London Business School following an early career in Finance in Latin America.

After graduating from LBS, Alex’s working career has been in international retail. He has previously held positions with Tesco as Group Commercial Finance Director, CFO of its South Korean business and as UK Commercial Finance Director in addition to senior finance roles with Kingfisher and Boots.

In January 2014, Alex joined Asda as CFO after two years in international private equity.
 

Chief Financial Officer, Tesco

Alan joined Tesco PLC on 23 September 2014 as the CFO. Alan qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte in South Africa and moved to the UK in 1985. He has extensive financial experience in retail having been CFO at Marks & Spencer and WH Smith. He started his career in the UK in investment banking with HSBC. He became CFO at Thomas Cook Holdings in 1998 and was appointed UK CEO in 2001. From there he moved to WH Smith as Group CFO. In 2008 he was appointed CFO at AWAS, a leading aircraft leasing business, before moving to M&S in 2010. Alan is also a NED with Diageo.