Team Members

Mark was appointed Chief Finance Officer of UK Government Investments in September 2025. Mark is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and started his career with KPMG. He has held positions with PwC, in the UK and Australia and within the NHS where he established an LLP joint venture between two major north London hospitals and a private pathology provider. Mark has held various interim director of finance positions, including at the DHSC PPE Programme where he was instrumental in saving taxpayer funds and increasing value for money from expended revenue.

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Andy joined UKGI in September 2025 to lead the Insurance branch in the Financial Instruments and Transactions Advisory Group. He is a qualified actuary on secondment from the Government Actuary’s Department. Andy previously led GAD’s Insurance and Investment team and brings deep experience in leading multidisciplinary teams advising government departments on complex financial risks. He has led on a number of high profile projects including GAD’s advice on clinical negligence risks, the student loans sale, COVID-19 interventions and establishing CLCC – the precursor to FInTAG.

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Jim was appointed Second Permanent Secretary of the Treasury in July 2025.  Jim brings a wealth of experience from investment banking and corporate finance to the Treasury, after a long career at Bank of America. He also has experience in the public sector, spending three years at UK Financial Investments from 2010-2013. As Chief Executive of UKFI, he managed the government’s holdings in Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group, and UK Asset Resolution.  His appointment is part of the government’s plan to deliver its number one mission to kickstart economic growth as part of the Plan for Change, and follows the Chancellor’s commitment to lead the most pro-growth Treasury in the country’s history.  Jim’s experience will help the government to secure private investment and boost the economy. His deep knowledge of the private sector will help the government to rip out the barriers to growth, provide support for the key industries at home, and work to secure open and fair trade abroad.

Jim began his career at Bank of America in New York in 1993 and relocated to London in 1999.  He has over 30 years experience of both the capital markets and the financial services industry.  He holds a Bsc form the University of Virginia and MBA from the University of Chicago.

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Harry Hampson joined UKGI as Corporate Finance Director in July 2025. Prior to that, Harry had multi-decade career in international investment banking at JP Morgan based in London. His most recent role was as one of the Global Chairs of Investment Banking and a member of that group’s Executive Committee. His prior roles have included: Chairman of Industry Coverage in EMEA, Vice-Chairman of JP Morgan Cazenove, Head of TMT Advisory and Head of Equity Capital Markets in the EMEA region.

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Stewart joined UKGI in 2025 having worked in international investment banking over the last 25 years, covering both capital markets and M&A transactions. He has extensive experience advising public company boards, including FTSE250, as well as private corporates on a range of commercial and corporate finance transactions. Stewart is a CFA charterholder and studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University.

Stewart is part of the UKGI team providing specialist corporate finance advice and commercial negotiation support across government departments where a particular M&A transaction or corporate event is deemed of national or economic importance to government.

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Caroline is a chartered accountant. She previously acted as an insolvency practitioner and has over 25 years’ experience in Restructuring, Insolvency and Contingency Planning.

Prior to joining UKGI in June 2024, Caroline was a Director at the professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) where she worked in Restructuring and Insolvency across London and the South East.

At UKGI Caroline’s role is in the Special Situations Group. This is a team of restructuring advisers and civil servants advising government departments on sectors or corporates in situations where there is a risk of economic shock impact to employment or assets of national interest.

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Carl is a civil servant in the UKGI/MOD joint unit and leads the shareholder teams for Sheffield Forgemasters and Defence Equipment and Support. He also advises the MOD on a range of governance, corporate finance and asset sale issues.

Prior to joining UKGI Defence, Carl was Director of strategy and policy at Ofwat, the economic regulator for the water industry, and has previously held senior public policy roles at British Airways, Lloyds Banking Group/TSB Bank and the government’s Money Advice Service, and chaired a review of the ownership and governance of the main UK payment system operators. He previously worked in HM Treasury on a range of financial services, infrastructure, and regulatory policy issues, and started his career working in local and regional government on economic development and governance policy.

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Owen joined UKGI in September 2023 to lead the Insurance branch in the Financial Instruments and Transactions Advisory Group (FInTAG). He is a qualified actuary who is on secondment from the Government Actuary’s Department (GAD) where he has worked for the past 11 years. In that time Owen has advised a wide range of public sector clients including various funded pension schemes, regulators and central government departments. Most recently, he led the team advising HM Treasury on public service pension policy. Prior to joining GAD, he worked in the private sector for the insurance software provider, Acturis. 

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Iain was appointed a Non-Executive Director of UK Government Investments in November 2023.

Iain spent most of his career in senior finance leadership roles and retired as CFO of GSK plc and as an executive director on the GSK Board in April 2023. Prior to joining GSK in early 2019, Iain was Group Finance Director of HSBC Holdings plc, a position he held for eight years. In his earlier career Iain undertook senior finance leadership roles for: HSBC in North America and Asia; for The General Electric Company of the US for almost 12 years in diverse areas including Consumer Finance, Healthcare and Corporate Audit and; for Schlumberger in Africa and Asia.  A chartered accountant, Iain’s formative career was with Thomson Maclintock in Aberdeen and with Price Waterhouse in New York and Paris. He holds an MA in Business Studies and Accounting and an Honorary Doctorate from Aberdeen University.

Current additional appointments:

• Non-Executive Director, Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee, member of the Remuneration Committee and member of the Finance Committee at National Grid plc
• Non-Executive Director of Schroders plc since January 2024 and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee since May 2024

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Stuart joined UKGI (formerly the Shareholder Executive) in 2015 and has worked on a variety of corporate finance projects, asset sales and corporate governance shareholder teams.

Since 2018, Stuart has been working within UKGI Defence, UKGI’s joint unit with the Ministry of Defence, where he built and leads the Defence Corporate Finance team, which provides financial and strategic analysis and advice to MOD. Stuart is also a member of the Senior Leadership Team for MOD’s Nuclear Fuels Programme, where he focuses on corporate finance, commercial and strategic activities. Previously, Stuart led UKGI’s shareholder team for National Highways and has held shareholder roles for Porton Biopharma, UK Green Infrastructure Platform and Working Links.

Prior to joining UKGI, Stuart worked for 15 years in investment banking and corporate finance, including roles at JP Morgan, Bear Stearns and Piper Jaffray, where he advised companies across Europe on M&A and capital raising, latterly focusing on the healthcare sector. He subsequently worked as an intelligence officer at the National Crime Agency.

In addition to his role at UKGI, Stuart spent 6 years with the charity, Tramshed Arts, as a member of the Capital Development Board, as Board Member and Trustee, and ultimately also as Treasurer.

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