The Prime Minister has reappointed Roland Rudd and Dame
Jayne-Anne Gadhia as Trustees of the Tate. Roland Rudd has also
been reappointed as Chair by the Tate Trustees for a further 3
year term as required under the Museums and Galleries Act 1992.
Roland Rudd
Appointed for a three year term from 31 January 2025 to 30
January 2028.
Roland Rudd is a founder and Chair of FGS Global, the leading
global communications and public affairs consultancy. Prior to
founding the strategic communications company Finsbury in 1994,
he worked as a political and financial journalist at the
Financial Times and The Times.
Roland is also Chair of Tate, which he has been involved with for
the past 25 years, first serving as a Patron, Chair of the
Business Advisory Group and then as Deputy Chair. He has also
been a Trustee and fundraiser for the Royal Opera House and is
currently a Trustee of the Bayreuth Festival, as well as a patron
of Grange Park Opera and the Holburne Museum.
He is currently Chair of Governors at Millfield School, a Trustee
at Speakers for Schools, an ambassador for Made by Dyslexia and
an Honorary Fellow at Oxford University's Centre for Corporate
Reputation. He also serves as a Specially Appointed Commissioner
at the Royal Hospital Chelsea and is an Ambassador for the
Alzheimer's Society.
Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia
Appointed for a two year term from 14 November 2024 to 13
November 2026.
Dame Jayne-Anne is Chair of Moneyfarm, Ozone API, Alpha FX, and
Shakespeare's Globe, Lead NED at HMRC, and Senior Independent
Director at the Tate. She is also a Director at PRA Group. From
2007 to 2018, she was the CEO of Virgin Money.
A Chartered Accountant, she spent six years at Norwich Union (now
Aviva) before becoming one of the founders of Virgin Direct in
1995. Three years later, she set up the Virgin One account, which
was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2001. She
subsequently spent five years at RBS before returning to Virgin
as CEO of Virgin Money.
In 2012, Jayne-Anne led Virgin Money's acquisition of Northern
Rock before listing the combined business in 2014. In 2018, the
combined Virgin Money business was sold to CYGB. Following the
sale of Virgin Money, Jayne-Anne joined Salesforce from
2019-2021. She left Salesforce to focus on her own fintech,
Snoop, which was sold to Vanquis Bank in July 2023.
From 2016 to 2021, Jayne-Anne was the UK Government's Women in
Finance Champion and continues to support and promote the Women
in Finance Charter as an advisor. In 2018, she was named Leader
of the Year at the Lloyds Bank National Business Awards. She sits
on the Mayor of London's Business Advisory Board.
Jayne-Anne was awarded a CBE in the 2014 New Year's Honours list,
made a Dame in the 2019 Honours list, and awarded a CVO in the
2022 Birthday Honours List.
Remuneration and Governance Code
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Trustees of the Tate, including the Chair, are not
remunerated. This appointment has been made in accordance
with the Cabinet Office's Governance Code on Public
Appointments. The appointments process is regulated by
the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Under the Code,
any significant political activity undertaken by an
appointee in the last five years must be declared. This is
defined as including holding office, public speaking,
making a recordable donation, or candidature for election.
Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia has declared a recordable donation
to a political party, donating £12,000 to The Winter Party.
Roland Rudd has not declared any significant political
activity.
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