Mark Thundercliffe

Former CRO at HSBC & Virgin Money

Speaker

Mark is currently Group Senior Advisor for Bank South Pacific, the leading bank in the South Pacific, operating in Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu. In addition, Mark is Senior Advisor across Northern Europe for SAS, a global leader in analytics, and holds several non-executive board roles with Financial Services companies in the UK.

Formerly, Mark was the Group Chief Risk Officer of Virgin Money for 7 years, previously EMEA Chief Risk Officer & Global Head of IFR9 & IRB of HSBC also for 7 years. With over 37 years Financial Services experience in corporate, retail and business banking globally, Mark is recognised as an international banking expert in Risk management & was awarded by the financial services industry, UK CRO of the year in 2018 & Lifetime Achievement award for his contribution to UK Banking in 2022.

Mark has held several senior international positions including President and CEO with Home Credit (Asia) and he was also an Executive Director and Business Head (Russia) with Renaissance Capital in Moscow. With Citi he progressed from Chief Risk Officer (UK & Ireland) to become CEO of Citi Consumer (Russia). Prior to this, he worked with Citi, latterly as Executive and Business Head, based in India.

Mark is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Credit Management.