Melton Building Society have announced the appointment to its Board of Elizabeth Lockwood as non-executive director and chair of the Risk Committee.
Elizabeth joins the Melton Board after 25 years in the banking industry as a risk management specialist. She spent 15 years covering corporate and financial institutions at Deutsche Bank in the UK, before moving onto senior and executive risk roles in commercial, retail and private banking at RBS/Natwest.
In her free time, Elizabeth volunteers as an external expert member of the of the Audit and Risk Committee for Samaritans and she is a qualified executive coach and therapeutic counsellor.
Melton Building Society is a signatory of the Women in Finance Charter and is proud to have a gender mix across the Board, which includes three females in key roles within the Board for the first time in the society’s history. This includes a female chair, chair of Risk Committee and senior independent director.
The society’s approach is to achieve this balance of representation whilst also pursuing the strategy of hiring the right person for the role, regardless of gender.
Chair of the Board, Fiona Pollard, comments on the appointment, saying: “We are very pleased to have Elizabeth Lockwood join the Board of the Melton Building Society. She has a wealth of knowledge from her years as the deputy chief risk officer for NatWest Holdings and her experience will be a great addition to our Board. We are delighted to welcome her.”
Elizabeth says: “I’m thrilled to be joining the Melton Board and to be part of a community helping to build a modern mutual society.”
