About Us | Tandem Bank

Alex Mollart

Chief Executive Officer

Alex has held Senior Director positions in the Credit Industry with a career spanning over 25 years. After beginning his career at Yorkshire Bank, he went on to work at Welcome Finance in Branch, Area and Regional Manager roles running 60+ Branches across Northern England and Scotland.

After a 10 year period of exceptional growth he left to found Oplo (formerly 1st Stop Group) in 2004, and has overseen the business's last 15 years of expansion.

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Alex Mollart

Chief Executive Officer

Matt Dobson

Chief Financial Officer

Matt is a qualified accountant with over 25 years’ banking experience covering Board, Executive and Senior Management roles in Finance, Treasury and Capital Markets. Matt joined Tandem in 2023 as Director of Treasury, before being appointed Tandem’s current CFO in January 2025. He has previously held similar roles for Barclays, NatWest Group and, before joining Tandem, he was CFO and Finance Director at Furness Building Society and Bank North, overseeing periods of significant business development and financial growth.

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Matt Dobson

Chief Financial Officer

Suavek Zajac

Chief Technology Officer

Suavek is a visionary technology leader with a proven track record of scaling companies and developing innovative platforms. With a strong foundation as a software engineer, Suavek has risen through the ranks from developer to enterprise architect to CTO, driving transformative growth at companies like Grand Parade, William Hill, and Railsr.

He is passionate about leveraging his creativity and technical knowledge to solve real-world customer problems.

As CTO at Tandem Bank, Suavek is committed to applying his skills in building scalable systems and leading high-caliber teams to support Tandem's green mission of making it easier for more people to live a greener lifestyle.

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Suavek Zajac

Chief Technology Officer

Richard Eager

Interim Chief Risk Officer

Richard joined Tandem in October 2024 and is currently Interim Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and member of Tandem’s Executive Committee. With previous positions such as Head of Compliance/MLRO with SilverRock Financial Services, Richard holds significant Financial Crime and Compliance experience, working for tier 1 financial institutions, new banks, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and in law enforcement.

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Richard Eager

Interim Chief Risk Officer

Paul McGarrigle

Chief Operating Officer

Paul has a proven track record of transforming business operating models to deliver service excellence and optimisation.

With 25 years’ experience of working within UK regulated businesses across insurance and financial services, Paul has held leadership roles within, Aon, Capita, Lloyds Banking Group, Legal & General, Target and Allium Money.

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Paul McGarrigle

Chief Operating Officer

Catherine Diamond

Chief People Officer

Catherine has a wealth of experience gained from leading on all aspects of the People and Culture agenda in ﬁnancial services for TSB, Lloyds Banking Group, HBOS plc, Bank of Scotland, Vanquis Banking Group and Prima. Catherine’s core passion is to build exceptional employee experiences and to create positive and inclusive cultures for all.

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Catherine Diamond

Chief People Officer

Steve Beard

Managing Director - Mortgages

Steve has worked in financial services for over 25 years. During that time, he has held various management positions at Cattles PLC and senior management positions at Oplo.

Steve currently leads the Mortgage Division at Tandem Bank, which specialises in offering a range of products including Bespoke mortgages and Residential first and second charge mortgages.

Steve sits on Tandem's Executive Committee and represents the Mortgage division internally at several committees, and externally when working and interacting with regulators and trade bodies such as the FLA (Finance Leasing Association).

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Steve Beard

Managing Director - Mortgages

Dave Briggs

Managing Director - Motor Finance

Dave joined Tandem Bank in 2022 bringing over 30 years motor finance experience from a career with Mercantile Credit, First National Motor Finance and culminating as Chief Operating Officer at MotoNovo Finance where he played a critical role in transforming the business into the leading independent motor finance business in the UK.

Dave is building the Tandem Motor Finance business with an ambition to deliver much needed change to the industry with a fairer and greener offering for the new mainstream at the heart of everything we do.

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Managing Director - Motor Finance

Julian Nutley

Managing Director - Home Improvements

Julian has spent over 35 years in specialist lending. He was a Director of GE Money in the early 2000s before setting up his own Home Improvement Lending Business, m2i, in 2007, which he subsequently sold in 2012.

He was part of the team that founded Shawbrook Bank and also part of the team that set up Allium Money in 2018.

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Julian Nutley

Managing Director - Home Improvements

Hayley Bradshaw

Head of Internal Audit

Hayley joined Tandem in September 2024 as Head of Internal Audit and member of Tandem’s Executive Committee. Having previously led numerous outsourced internal audit functions across Financial Services firms for Deloitte, and as a member of the Internal Audit Leadership team at Yorkshire Building Society, Hayley brings a wealth of experience to lead Tandem's Internal Audit Function.

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Hayley Bradshaw

Head of Internal Audit

Marriam Malik

General Counsel and Company Secretary

A multifaceted lawyer with a broad range of experience in areas of finance, commercial and corporate law.

Marriam has spent half of her career working with finance teams in London City law firms, and the other half working in-house in retail, corporate and institutional banking divisions of international banks.

She has navigated many types of complex transactions and projects through various sectors providing sound legal advice, as well as providing insight into jurisdictional, regulatory, and industry specific issues.

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Marriam Malik

General Counsel and Company Secretary

Sven Schindele

Managing Director of Corporate Development

Sven has extensive experience across corporate development, consumer lending and retail banking. He has held senior roles across Santander, HSBC and Tandem, leading product functions across credit cards, mortgages, unsecured lending as well as deposit products. Sven then successfully moved into corporate development where he has a track record of completing strategic acquisitions and asset purchases from deal sourcing through due diligence to deal execution and integrations.

Sven has passed Level I and Level II of the CFA Program.

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Sven Schindele

Managing Director of Corporate Development

Darvish Heshejin

Director of Strategic Growth

Darvish has extensive experience in Financial Services. For the past decade, he has been focused on developing and launching technology-driven lending propositions in the consumer and SME sectors. Most recently, as the VP of Growth at consumer lender Selina Finance, he was part of the founding management team, and at Kriya (formerly Market Invoice), a digital SME lender.

Before this, Darvish qualified as an accountant at PwC and worked in corporate finance advisory at financial services-focused investment bank KBW, where he focused on M&A and capital raising for financial institutions in the UK and Europe.

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Darvish Heshejin

Director of Strategic Growth

Paul Pester

Chair

Paul joined the Tandem Board as a Non-Executive Director and Chair in June 2022. Following over 20 years building and leading some of the most disruptive and established consumer financial services businesses in the UK and overseas, he now holds a number of roles as either Chair, Non-Executive Director, Board Adviser or investor in a range of high growth, disruptive financial services businesses.

Having previously been an adviser to the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer and HM Treasury on competition issues in banking, Paul is a passionate advocate for consumers’ interests in financial services.

A life-long swimmer, Paul regularly competes in triathlons and multi-sport events, often for the charity Breast Cancer Now, where he was formerly a Patron.

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Paul Pester

Chair

Alex Mollart

Chief Executive Officer

After a 10 year period of exceptional growth he left to found Oplo (formerly 1st Stop Group) in 2004, and has overseen the business's last 15 years of expansion.

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Alex Mollart

Chief Executive Officer

Matt Dobson

Chief Financial Officer

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Matt Dobson

Chief Financial Officer

Matthew Donaldson

Non-Executive Director & Chair of Remuneration Committee

Matthew has been an independent Non-Executive Director at Tandem Bank since March 2022. He has significant experience in financial services, insurance and price comparison.

Formerly the Group CEO of BGL Group, Matthew is now a Non-Executive Director of Markerstudy Group and Chairman of BGL Insurance. He has also served as Chairman of Three Rock Group (Ireland) since 2020. During his tenure at BGL he founded Comparethemarket.com, leading the business to its market leading position.

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Matthew Donaldson

Non-Executive Director & Chair of Remuneration Committee

Malcolm McCaig

Non-Executive Director & Chair of the Audit Committee

Malcolm is a highly experienced Non-Executive Director in financial services, with various roles on the Boards of Tandem, QBE, Ageas, Randall & Quilter, and Hampden Agencies Limited. He is the Chairman of United Response, one of the UK 's largest charities. In addition, he is on the Court of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants, the Chair of the Chair's Forum, and a member of the Association of Audit Committee Chairs Independent Forum. He was formerly a partner with three of the Big 4 accountancy firms, and he has held executive management positions for several years in global banking and insurance firms.

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Malcolm McCaig

Non-Executive Director & Chair of the Audit Committee

Imran Gulamhuseinwala

Independent Non-Executive Director

Imran Gulamhuseinwala OBE is a highly experienced advisor to governments, financial institutions and investors. He was formerly the global leader of EY’s FinTech practice and went on to deliver the UK’s world-leading open banking initiative as Chief Executive and Chair of the Open Banking Implementation Entity (2017-2021). He also co-founded FinTech50 start-up CommuterClub, which gave commuters access to savings for annual travel season tickets.

Imran now serves as a Senior Advisor to a VC fund in the Middle East and several fintechs in the areas of digital banking, payments, and fraud.

Imran holds a master’s degree in Engineering from Cambridge University, is a CFA holder, and was awarded an OBE for services to Fintech in 2017.

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Independent Non-Executive Director

Matthew Potter

Non-Executive Director

Matthew has been a Non-Executive Director at Tandem Bank since March 2022. He holds expertise in the fields of private equity, asset management and corporate finance. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Matthew has been a Partner of Pollen Street Capital Ltd since 2013 with responsibility for clients including Tandem Bank, Shawbrook and Amicus Bank. He has also held Non-Executive Director seats on the boards of Capitalflow since 2016.

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Non-Executive Director

Aileen Wallace

Senior Independent Non-Executive Director

Aileen is an experienced Non Executive Director and Fintech Advisor with more than 30 years’ experience in consumer and digital service businesses with roles at Virgin Money, Co-Operative Bank and Cognizant. Qualified in Digital Strategy from Insead, Aileen’s expertise is in business transformation, technology enabled customer innovation and corporate governance in highly regulated environments. Aileen is currently Chair of Innovation and Chair of Remuneration at Hodge Bank, Non Executive Director at International Personal Finance PLC and Chair of Risk Committee at Target Tech Mahindra.

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Aileen Wallace

Senior Independent Non-Executive Director

Patrick Carey

Non-Executive Director

Patrick has been a Non-Executive Director at Tandem since April 2024. He joined Pollen Street Capital in 2021 as an Investment Director, having spent the previous 15 years as an investor in or advisor to the financial services industry. Prior to Pollen Street, he worked at Toscafund Asset Management as a Principal in the Private Equity team, at Jacobs Asset Management as Director of Private Investments, and at Deutsche Bank as an Investment Banking Analyst and Associate in the Financial Institutions Group. Patrick is also a member of Tandem’s Audit, Remuneration, Risk and Nominations Committees.

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Non-Executive Director

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We're

building

the

UK's

greener

digital

bank

Inspired by one mission

2009

110,000

£523m+

74,000t

Our people

That’s enough from us,hear it from those who matter

Fancy joining us?

Can’t find what you’re after?

That’s enough from us,
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