Adrian is a senior risk-management and compliance leader with more than two decades of experience in financial services across banking, investments and payments. He has built and led cross-border, multi-disciplinary teams across all three lines of defence, with a particular focus on financial crime, privacy, information security and fraud.

At Santander he headed the Commercial Bank and Corporate and Investment Bank’s 2LoD Financial Crime teams, prior to ringfencing, led the Retail Bank’s Non-Financial Risk management function and is currently Director of Economic Crime Risk, Money Laundering Reporting Officer and Anti Bribery Officer for the ringfenced bank group. Earlier in his career Adrian held SMF17/CF11 MLRO and various senior risk and compliance roles at Virgin Money, Aegon, Travelex and Lloyds Banking Group.