Jayne-Anne Gadhia

CEO, Virgin Money

Jayne-Anne Gadhia worked for Fred Goodwin at RBS before taking on the top job at Virgin Money. Her concerns over the way RBS was operating prior to the 2008 sub-prime mortgage crash were ignored, so she picked up the phone to Richard Branson, who swiftly made her his CEO. He subsequently chose her to lead the Northern Rock takeover bid, which she secured for £747 million in 2012. Under Gadhia’s leadership Virgin Money has risen in prominence to rival some of the UK’s largest lenders. Gadhia attributes her confidence to bullying she endured as one of the first intake of girls at boarding school, and fittingly, the UK Treasury has just asked her to carry out a review into the high rate of attrition among women in the financial industry.

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