Chris Rachlin

Chris Rachlin has held senior executive positions in risk and finance at a number of major financial institutions as well as non-executive positions in two major suppliers to the financial services industry.

Chris trained as a chartered accountant and joined PricewaterhouseCoopers for ten years working on banking and public sector assignments in London, India, Australia, and the rest of Europe.

Over the last 19 years, Chris has focused his career on Operational Risk and has held Group and Country level Operational Risk Head roles at HSBC, Barclays, Mizuho International, and RBS. Most recently, while at HSBC, Chris led their program to improve risk management oversight of their third-party suppliers. Additionally, he has a strong interest in and led programmes at HSBC and other banks to improve corporate governance. He has spoken at a wide range of conferences on the topics of risk and governance.

Chris spent almost five years as a non-executive member of the Audit Committee of iPSL, the market leader in cheque processing across the UK, and was previously a non-executive director of Vaultex UK Ltd, one of the UK’s leading cash processors.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and a graduate of the University of Southampton.