Our Board Members and Executive Team
Meet our Board of Directors and Executive Team. The board is made up of both executive and non-executive members.
Board Members
Our board is collectively responsible for setting out the strategy and vision of Nucleus, shaping and instilling company values, culture and standards and ensuring the maintenance of sound systems of internal control and risk management. We believe the board has all the necessary attributes to effectively guide and challenge the executive team and to ensure that Nucleus’ obligations to its shareholders and wider stakeholders are understood and met.
Our board consists of a team of executive and non-executive directors working together and using their experience of UK financial services and platform businesses to drive Nucleus forward and achieve good outcomes for its customers. Full biographies for each director are available by clicking on the images below.
Gordon Wilson
Chair and Independent Non-Executive Director
Gordon has chaired our board since 2022 and we benefit from his 30 years’ of experience across a broad range of sectors. He was previously Chair of interactive investor, Chair of Virgin Experience Days and an iNED at William Hill PLC and BCD Holdings, and his executive career was over three decades at Travelport, the last eight of which was as President and CEO including taking the company public on the New York Stock Exchange. He also currently chairs Ambassador Cruise Lines and Red Funnel Ferries.
Richard Hoskins
Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
Richard chairs our audit committee and has extensive non-executive experience having served as a board member for Old Mutual, Aviva, AIG, Hastings and BGL Group. With a career spanning almost 40 years, Richard brings a proven CEO and CFO track record for multiple blue-chip organisations, and deep expertise in financial services – particularly in insurance services and asset management.
Cathryn Riley CBE
Independent Non-Executive Director
Cathryn chairs the remuneration committee and is also our Consumer Duty Champion. She’s currently a board member at the Financial Services Compensation Scheme and Liberty Managing Agency. She spent 17 years with Aviva where, in her final role as Group Chief Operations Officer, she was responsible for IT, Business Change and Operational Shared Services. Prior to this she was Group Chief Information Officer. She has also held key executive roles at BUPA, PWC and British Airways. Cathryn was made a CBE in the 2026 New Year Honours List for business leadership and inclusion.
Alastair Clarkson
Independent Non-Executive Director
Alastair chairs the Risk Committee. He’s been on the board of Curtis Banks for the last three years and has continued to chair several of its subsidiaries following the acquisition by Nucleus in 2023. He has a broad range of experience sitting on and supporting the boards of corporates, professional bodies and charities, with a focus on risk management and finance. He also brings extensive senior executive-level risk experience, having spent over 25 years working for Scottish Provident and the Standard Life / Aberdeen group.
Gail Bragg
Independent Non-Executive Director
Gail chairs the Transformation Committee. She’s an experienced non-executive director and committee chair, having held board positions across financial services, large charity and public sector organisations. She also has strong industry and platform transformation experience from her time on the boards of Interactive Investor and Alliance Trust Savings. Her executive career spanned several FTSE-100 financial services firms including Axa, Friends Life and NatWest/RBS group. She’s currently a board member at adviser consolidator The Finli Group in addition to chairing its Transformation Committee.
Scot French
Non-Executive Director
Scot is a Governing Partner of HPS and is the Portfolio Manager of the HPS Strategic Investment Partners Funds. Prior to joining HPS in 2007, he spent three years at Citigroup where he managed a portfolio of private mezzanine and private equity investments in North America, Europe and Latin America. Prior to joining Citigroup, he worked in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs and in Mergers & Acquisitions at Salomon Brothers Inc.
Jake Blair
Non-Executive Director
Jake is a Managing Director at HPS Investment Partners. Prior to joining HPS in 2007, he worked as a Vice President in General Electric’s Commercial Finance Distressed Debt Group, where he invested in distressed leveraged loans and was involved in numerous workouts on behalf of GE Capital. In 2000, Jake founded CampInteractive, a New York based charity, where he served as Executive Director for four years.
Roisin Conran
Non-Executive Director
Roisin is a Managing Director at HPS Investment Partners. Prior to joining HPS in 2016, Roisin worked as an investment professional at BlueBay Asset Management in London as a private credit specialist. She holds a BSc in Economics and Finance from the Quinn School of Business at University College Dublin.
Owen Wilson
Observer
Owen is a partner at Epiris LLP, having joined the firm in 2013. Prior to this, Owen spent four years in Palamon Capital Partners as Principal, 5 years at Candover as Investment Director, and 7 years advising private equity clients whilst at Bain & Co. Owen obtained a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Richard Rowney
Chief Executive Officer
Richard Rowney joined as our CEO in 2020. Prior to this he held several roles at LV over 13 years, including Managing Director of LV Life and Pensions and Group CEO of LV. He’s also a director of the Platforms Association, the trade body representing the £1tr platforms industry.
Richard started his career in 1992, undertaking various senior operational, risk and change roles across Barclays Corporate and Retail Banking, and holds an honours degree in Geography from Leeds University, an MBA from Henley Management College and a GMP from Harvard Business School.
Andrew Ring
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew has two decades of experience working across the financial services sector and a proven track record of operating as a chief financial officer. Before joining Nucleus he was Chief Financial & Commercial Officer for FNZ in the UK, Middle East and Africa, and before that was CFO for the firm’s UK business. Previously he was Group Finance Director at Hitachi Capital UK and spent eight years at Barclays Group where latterly he was Finance Director for its UK Corporate Banking division.
Executive Team
Our executive leadership team is responsible for the day-to-day management of the business and implementing Nucleus’ strategy.
Richard Rowney
Chief Executive Officer
Richard Rowney joined as our CEO in 2020. Prior to this he held several roles at LV over 13 years, including Managing Director of LV Life and Pensions and Group CEO of LV. He’s also a director of the Platforms Association, the trade body representing the £1tr platforms industry.
Richard started his career in 1992, undertaking various senior operational, risk and change roles across Barclays Corporate and Retail Banking, and holds an honours degree in Geography from Leeds University, an MBA from Henley Management College and a GMP from Harvard Business School.
Mike Regan
Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Commercial Officer
Mike is our Deputy CEO and Chief Commercial Officer and brings experience in M&A, driving business transformation and developing high performing finance teams. Prior to joining Nucleus, Mike was CFO for UK digital insurer BGLi for three years. Prior to this, he spent almost ten years at the Royal Bank of Scotland, and as part of this held the role of Finance Director for RBS’s Private Banking Franchise, Coutts. A chartered accountant by profession, Mike has a breadth and depth of experience in the financial services sector, starting his career at PwC and later holding senior positions at financial giants UBS and HSBC and European commercial bank West LB.
Andrew Ring
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew has two decades of experience working across the financial services sector and a proven track record of operating as a chief financial officer. Before joining Nucleus he was Chief Financial & Commercial Officer for FNZ in the UK, Middle East and Africa, and before that was CFO for the firm’s UK business. Previously he was Group Finance Director at Hitachi Capital UK and spent eight years at Barclays Group where latterly he was Finance Director for its UK Corporate Banking division.
Ross Allan
Chief Operating Officer
Ross is our COO. Ross has an extensive career in IT and Operations, holding a number of leadership roles, including Chief Operating Officer at Curtis Banks and Platform Development Director at abrdn. Ross has significant experience of running large operational environments and complex Transformation and Integration programmes, including the acquisition of the Elevate platform by Standard Life. Earlier in his career Ross was a consultant with Accenture where he specialised in delivering technology change across a number of sectors.
Jenny Thorpe
Chief Technology Officer
Jenny Thorpe is our CTO and has an impressive background in the development and delivery of platform IT strategies. Prior to this, Jenny was an Associate Director at Alpha FMC, delivering a range of initiatives for leading platforms and held various roles across transformation, IT strategy and architecture at Aegon and Alliance Trust. She is responsible for the leadership and development of our technological teams, including our internal systems and platforms.
Louis Petherick
Chief Risk Officer
Louis joined us from Brooks McDonald where he was Group CRO for two years. Prior to this he was CRO at FNZ UK and spent 5 years at AJ Bell where he was both CRO and an Executive Board member. His career also includes senior risk roles at M&S Bank, The Co-operative Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, ING Direct and St James’ Place.
As well as his extensive background in leading high performing teams across risk, compliance, and financial crime. Louis has substantial experience of working with regulators.
Alison Longbottom
Chief People Officer
Alison is our CPO having joined James Hay in October 2020. Her career spans two decades, incorporating roles in the UK, Europe and Africa across FTSE 250 companies, Private Equity, B2B and B2G, and unionised manufacturing. Prior to joining James Hay she held a human resources leadership role at Portals, world-leading banknote and passport paper manufacturer, having supported the separation of the business from a public company and the establishment of a private equity-backed independent business.
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