Lord Jitesh Gadhia
Role: Independent Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee
Appointed: July 2021, Independent Non-Executive Director Compare the Market Limited. (Prior to this he was an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Group parent company, BGL (Holdings) Limited from March 2016)
Committee membership: Chair of Remuneration Committee, member of Audit, Board Risk and Nomination Committees
Jitesh has over 25 years investment banking and financial services experience, having held senior positions at Blackstone, Barclays Capital, ABN AMRO and Baring Brothers. Jitesh has advised on a wide range of high profile mergers and acquisitions, and capital raising transactions across developed and emerging markets.
Jitesh currently serves on the boards of Rolls-Royce Holdings plc, Taylor Wimpey plc and the Court of the Bank of England. He was previously a board member of UK Financial Investments Limited (UKFI) and UK Government Investments Limited (UKGI) between 2014-2022.
Jitesh graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in Economics and attended the London Business School as a Sloan Fellow.