Jo Hanley – Non-executive director

Jo joined the Trust as a non-executive director in June 2023.

A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Jo has held a range of senior leadership positions across the Commercial Banking, Group Operations and Wealth/Private Banking divisions of Lloyds Banking Group where she has worked for some 20 years. Jo currently leads the Data Office for the global Corporate Markets business, prior roles include leading risk, customer servicing and operations functions and also delivering large scale transformation and integration programmes. Prior to joining Lloyds Banking Group, Jo worked at the Black Country Chamber of Commerce advising businesses to trade internationally. 

Jo has significant global experience having lived and worked in Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and the United States in addition to working across Asia and Latin America. Jo has expertise in establishing and leading centres of excellence/shared service functions and outsourcing arrangements, strategy development, delivering regulatory change in addition to business and service improvement.

Jo is a diversity and inclusion advocate, currently co-chairing the Midlands Branch of Women in Banking & Finance (Social Enterprise) and is passionate about supporting and enabling people to realise their potential. Jo has a strong connection to Dudley having grown up in the area