Katharine is a senior leader with diverse sector experience across financial services, food and drink manufacturing and consultancy with significant experience of transformation. People management and stakeholder engagement. Qualified as a chartered accountant in 1995 joining Coca Cola HBC that year in Finance and then over the next 17 years undertaking roles in IT, Logistics, Factory management and strategic initiatives. Joined Moy Park as Supply Chain project manager in 2013 and was appointed to the role of Head of Talent and Organisational Development in 2015 leading organisational design and associated development requirements across the UK operations. Took the opportunity to join Danske Bank in 2019 as Head of People Services with responsibility for people administration, compensation and benefits, HR risk and compliance, systems, management information, analytics and HR projects. Following the covid 19 pandemic moved to a role in Finance as Head of Financial Performance management leading a cross bank initiative to determine innovative ways to ensure sustainability from a cost and revenue perspective. In February 2023, took up the role as Head of Financial Crime Prevention in Danske with responsibility for Customer Fraud management and operational processes to protect our customers from Anti money laundering risk.