Mark Parker
Non Executive Director
Non-Executive, Advisor, and Interim Leader; with a proven ability to drive technology, digital, operational, and cost transformation in order to deliver a step change in operating and financial performance. Combines track record in COO, CIO and CEO roles with experience working with Board, Risk and Customer Conduct Committees. Now building a Non-Executive and Business Advisory portfolio; currently sits on the Co-operative Bank Board as a NED.
PRA & FCA approved; offers boards strategic insight and P&L experience, the capability building skills to coach executives, and significant risk and customer conduct experience; swiftly able to master new sectors and business models as an interim transformation leader. Career highlights include restructuring of IT across PepsiCo’s European snack foods business; the integration of the Halifax and Bank of Scotland IT platforms and operations; turning around ‘Intelligent Finance’ the digital bank; the creation of ‘Talkbiznow’ a digital professional networking and collaboration start-up; restructuring and separating Northern Rock, post its collapse, and subsequently selling the business to Virgin Money; IPO of Virgin Money and subsequent sale to CYBG; the turnaround of the Hastings customer operations and transformation of the technology and change capability including a Microsoft cloud migration of its entire IT estate; delivery of the Hastings digital strategy. Defined and delivered Cyber Security strategies for Virgin Money and Hastings.
