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Financial Services Directors’ Circle 2025

WB Directors x BDO bring you our Financial Services Directors' Circle.

Date and Time
10 Feb 2025
09:00 - 00:00
Location
Virtual
Venue
Not Specified
Capacity
100
Pricing
Director’s Circle
Free
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Terms & Conditions

Refunds for all our individual events are available if notice is given three business days prior by email or telephone, or one month prior to first session of our programmes. After this, a transfer to another event will be given. Cancellations on the same business day will not generally be eligible for a refund or transfer, however you may substitute someone to come in your place. In the case of exceptional circumstances let us know and we will consider a refund/transfer.

Connect with other non-executives on financial services boards of all types.

Our Circles of support are an additional service launching for 2025. They are a ‘go-to’ community of support for members with experience in each sector to build closer connections. Each group involves a WhatsApp Community and six events, mixed between virtual and in-person.

This group will span investment trusts, banks, building societies, asset management and any other type of firm in the financial services space and subject to FSA regulation. It will allow for in-depth discussion on regulatory issues particular to this sector, as well as sector-specific framing of issues such as culture and ESG. BDO will lend their expertise and insight, leading some sessions and simply being ‘on hand’ to contribute.

Open to our Directors’ Circle members who are currently serving on boards of this type, our Financial Services Circle will provide a supportive, confidential space bringing the peer support and insight to be even more impactful as a NED.

Meeting dates

Please register here to join our 2025 Financial Services Circle events. We will share further dates here through the year. Do register for the circle even if you can not attend every event.

You will also receive an invitation to join the WhatsApp group.

Future Dates

10 April 2025, in London, 17:30 – 19:30 – we are running an event on economic crime on this date. Further information and registration for this in-person event is via this page.


Chaired by – Sally Ann Hibberd and Suzanne Clark

BDO lead –  Sasha Molodtsov


Chairs

Sally-Ann Hibberd

Sally-Ann has a background in financial services and technology. As well as being the Non-Executive Chair of The Clear Group she currently serves as a Non-Executive Director of IG Group Holdings plc where she chairs the Sustainability committee and a Non-Executive Director of Lowell Group where she chairs the Risk and Sustainability Committees. Sally-Ann has been a Non-Executive Director of Shawbrook Group plc, Equiniti Group plc, The Co-operative Bank plc, Loughborough University and NFU Mutual serving as Chair or a member for a number of committees including Risk, Audit, Nomination and Remuneration. She previously served as Chief Operating Officer of the International Division, and latterly as Group Operations and Technology Director of Willis Group, and has held a number of senior executive roles at LloydsTSB. Sally-Ann holds a BSc in Civil Engineering from Loughborough University and an MBA from Bayes Business School.

Suzanne Clark

Suzanne is an experienced Audit Committee chair and accomplished non-executive, who excels when challenging the status quo in complex, dynamic or highly regulated organisations. She currently sits as a Non-Executive Director at Recognise Bank, and as NED and Audit Committee Chair at The Exeter and HBL Bank UK. She brings an exceptional track record of guiding organisations through critical transformations and crisis (at the Bank of England in the financial crisis and at a large hospital during the pandemic). 


BDO Lead

Sasha Molodtsov, Partner, Financial Services at BDO

Sasha Molodtsov

Sasha is a Partner in Financial Services, leading the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team, which sits within BDO’s Financial Service’s ESG and Regulatory Advisory practice. Sasha has recently returned
from secondment with the Bank of England. Sasha supports firms’ C Suite and Board decision makers to understand, monitor and report ESG related matters as they relate to regulation and industry expectations. She also leads BDO’s Financial Services’ Non-Executive Director’s (NEDs) community, which delivers timely technical, regulatory and thematic thought leadership to enable NEDs to successfully deliver their Director duties.
Sasha is a mentor with The 30% Club, The Prince’s Trust and Women in Banking and Finance, and co-leads the Diversity Project’s Ambassador programme.  Alongside her technical role at BDO, she is
also involved in BDO’s Diversity and Inclusion working groups and employee networks. She sits on BDO’s CEDAR (formerly BAME) Executive, LGBTQ+ network and co-leads the Financial Services’
Culture & Inclusion Group.