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Alison Hutchinson
Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
Location:
London
Team:
Board of Directors
Biography
Alison Hutchinson is CEO of fintech charity The Pennies Foundation (which she founded in 2009) working with retailers to enable digital giving, and also serves as the senior independent non-executive director at DFS PLC and is a Board Advisor to Markaaz. She was formerly senior independent non-executive director at Yorkshire Building Society.
Alison has a strong background in both IT and retail financial services, having started her career at IBM becoming global director of online financial services before joining Barclays Bank where she held senior management positions including marketing director of Barclaycard. She subsequently moved to specialist mortgage provider Kensington Group in 2004 as managing director and then Group CEO, leading the successful sale of the business to Investec in 2008.
In 2016, Alison was awarded a CBE for services to the economy and charities. She holds a BSc in Technology & Business Studies from Strathclyde University.
