Roshana joined UKGI in June 2022 having worked across capital markets, public sector and not for profits over the last 20 years, most recently as Associate Managing Director at Moody’s Investor Services where she has led ratings teams across Europe.

Before Moody’s, Roshana led finance, business planning and performance improvement initiatives in local government, having trained as a chartered accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. In addition, she tutors in Sustainable Finance at the Cambridge Institute of Sustainable Leadership, is a member of the ICAEW Sustainability Committee, is a Trustee at Womankind Worldwide, mentors startups at Cass Business School and is a diversity mentor for BT.

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Emily joined UKGI (formerly the Shareholder Executive) in June 2015. She has led the shareholder teams on Channel 4, UK Export Finance, the Nuclear Liabilities Fund and currently sits on the board of Ordnance Survey. Emily joined the Civil Service in August 2013 to launch and lead UKTI Education, a unit jointly established by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and UK Trade & Investment to help the UK education sector win business overseas, particularly in relation to high value opportunities. The unit helped UK education and training providers secure £1.5 billion of business in its first two years. Prior to this, Emily spent 13 years in corporate finance, most recently as a Director with Hawkpoint Partners (now Canaccord Genuity) focused on Media & Education. She has a broad range of M&A transaction and corporate advisory experience working for a range of UK and international private, public and charitable companies. Emily holds a PPE degree from Oriel College, Oxford.

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Carolyn Battersby joined UK Government Investments (formerly the Shareholder Executive) in 2011. Carolyn has worked on a range of asset sales and governance projects in the transport, energy, defence and housing sectors. In 2023 Carolyn was appointed as a Ministry of Defence Non-Executive Director on the board of Defence, Equipment and Support. She previously sat on the board of National Highways.

Before working in government, Carolyn had a career in finance and strategy at Tesco, The Prince’s Trust, Permira and Schroders.

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Andy joined UKGI in December 2016 and is part of the Special Situations team which focuses on sectors and corporates where there is a risk of economic shock impact to major employment or assets of national interest. Andy is a FCA and prior to joining UKGI was an M&A Director at Deloitte specialising in advising on non-standard and accelerated M&A transactions, many of which involved advising companies, investors and lenders on maximising value in constrained, challenging or time-critical situations. Whilst at UKGI, Andy has also worked within UKGI’s housing activities with MHCLG, delivered a number of projects with the UKGI Defence team and led UKGI’s team working on UK Export Finance. Andy also led on UKGI’s portfolio management activities.

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Richard currently works within UKGI’s joint unit with the Ministry of Defence, which provides corporate finance and governance advice on a range of issues facing the MOD.  Previously, Richard led the Post Office Shareholder team and was a NED on the Post Office Board for four years. Richard also led UKGI’s team overseeing Government’s shareholding in the Green Investment Bank and led the establishment of one of the UK’s largest employee shares schemes during the privatisation of Royal Mail.

Richard joined UKGI from Deloitte, where he advised on public-private finance deals.  He is a Chartered Accountant by background.

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Elena joined UKGI in October 2020 and has been a Non-Executive Director for Eutelsat Communications SA since September 2023 and for UKIB since August 2024. Prior to that, she had a twenty-five-year career in investment banking at Citibank, Goldman Sachs and Ondra Partners advising companies across Europe on financial strategy, capital raising and capital allocation. Through providing advice to senior management and boards she developed corporate governance expertise and became a Non-Executive Director on public company boards. In addition to her role at UKGI, she is a Non-Executive Director at illimity Bank, a digital only SME focused bank headquartered in Milan, Italy. She holds a degree in business administration from Bocconi University, Milan.

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Julie is a chartered accountant and is JIEB qualified, with over 25 years’ experience in Restructuring, Insolvency and Creditor Advisory work.  Having started her career at Coopers and Lybrand, Julie spent 12 years working in practice (at PwC and Kroll) before joining Barclays as a Director in the Restructuring Team. During this time, Julie worked on a variety of situations including multi lender listed transactions. 

Julie joined UKGI in July 2019 as part of the Special Situations Group, which advises government departments where there is a risk of economic shock impact to major employment or assets of national interest. Julie has also worked across other projects in UKGI including being part of the management team supporting HMT’s financial interventions in response to major situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the effects of the Ukraine war and market volatility.

Julie currently sits on the Board of Sheffield Forgemasters, a steel forge and precision manufacturer acquired by MoD in 2021.

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James joined UK Government Investments (formerly the Shareholder Executive) in March 2014. He has worked on a variety of corporate finance and governance projects, including government investments into industry and government asset sales. Major government sales worked on include the two public equity offerings of Royal Mail shares that removed Royal Mail from public sector ownership and advising the Department for Transport on Network Rail’s sale of c. 5,000 railway arches. He has recently been advising the Department of Health and Social Care on transactions relating to the provision of indemnity cover for GPs and working with the UK’s Vaccine Task Force on negotiating agreements with vaccine manufacturers to secure vaccines and manufacturing capacity as part of the UK’s response to Covid-19.

Prior to joining UKGI, James spent ten years working in corporate finance, first on the sell side in investment banking and, immediately prior to joining UKGI, on the buy side, at a hedge fund. He started his career at Bank of America, working in London and New York.

James holds an Economics degree from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.

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Owen joined UKGI in September 2023 to lead the Insurance branch in the Contingent Liabilities Central Capability (CLCC). 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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Sascha joined UKGI in April 2021. His private sector background is in investment banking with Lazard, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and CITIC Securities based in London.  He has led and advised on public and private M&A transactions as well as capital raisings across Europe. Sascha holds a degree in international management from the University of Manchester.

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Edward joined UK Government Investments in 2015, and has worked on both corporate finance and corporate governance projects. Most recently, Ed led the joint MOD/UKGI team that successfully brought the Atomic Weapons Establishment back into government ownership.

Prior to joining UKGI, Edward worked as a lawyer. He trained with the Scottish Government before moving into private practice first in Scotland and then the City, specializing in project and asset finance. Edward combined work and study to complete a Masters in global energy and climate policy, and further augmented his sectoral experience with secondments to Network Rail, ING and UK Export Finance.

Edward has completed a two year secondment with the Cabinet Office, where he first led on business, energy and environmental policy coordination in the Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat, working closely with HMT and No.10. Edward then led a team in DExEU preparing for the UK’s exit from the EU, before being asked to help establish and lead a team within the COVID Taskforce.

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Jonathan rejoined UKGI in January 2021 to lead its work supporting HMT’s financial interventions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, having previously been with the organisation between 2015 and 2019.

In his first stint at UKGI Jonathan led the inaugural income contingent student loan sale on behalf of DfE, UKGI’s work on net zero with BEIS, and projects with MoD, DIT, and the FCO.

Jonathan’s private sector background is in asset management. He was a portfolio manager at the BT Pension Scheme, running secure income and infrastructure equity portfolios, and at BlackRock, where he helped establish its infrastructure debt business. He began his career at ING Barings in its Energy, Transport, and Infrastructure group.

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Daniela joined UKGI (formerly the Shareholder Executive) in 2013 following 12 years working in Equity Capital Markets for Citigroup.

Daniela has complemented her banking experience with further transaction work from a government perspective. This includes the multi-billion pound sale of NatWest Group shares and two Student Loans securitisation transactions. She was previously involved in the privatisation of Royal Mail. Daniela also worked on a range of governance assignments, including heading the shareholder team for the National Energy System Operator (NESO), and policy development projects such as the Shaw Report on Network Rail.

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Jonathan joined UKGI in early 2018 and is part of the Special Situations team which focuses on sectors and corporates where there is a risk of economic shock impact to major employment or assets of national interest and where there is a strategic case for Government intervention.

Jonathan has over 20 years’ experience of providing restructuring and insolvency advice to key stakeholders in complex distressed situations. A lawyer by background, Jonathan has worked in both national and international law firms including Addleshaw Goddard and Mayer Brown and latterly as a Partner in the City with Maclay Murray & Spens (now Dentons).

In addition to working in the Special Situations team Jonathan has undertaken a number of Governance reviews of major Government Arms Length Bodies, led a review of UKGI’s approach to its Shareholder role and led UKGI’s Risk Function.

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Sukhi Johal joined UKGI in early 2021 from RSM UK, the provider of audit, tax and consulting services, where she was a Corporate Finance Partner. She has over 20 years’ experience in Corporate Finance, split between Advisory and Corporate & Investment Banking and worked on complex transactions in the UK and internationally.

At UKGI she leads work on 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. In the last year the team has undertaken a key advisory role in some of the most high-profile national security transactions facing government, across aerospace, space, telecoms and digital sectors.

In June 2023 Sukhi was appointed as the government’s representative on the board of National Highways.

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Shehroze joined UKGI in September 2021 and currently serves as the organisation’s first Chief Data Officer. In this capacity Shehroze is responsible for overseeing the analytical work undertaken by UKGI and identifying opportunities to unlock efficiencies across the organisation by leveraging data and insights. In addition, Shehroze is responsible for leading the Portfolio Analysis & Engagement team within the Contingent Liability Central Capability. As part of this he has led work to aggregate contingent liability data from across government and drive data-driven decision making to improve risk management. Prior to joining UKGI, Shehroze lead an analytical unit within the Infrastructure and Projects Authority to bring together government’s £650bn National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline, advise on the delivery of major government projects and programmes as well as inform decision making around fiscal events.

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Rubaba joined UKGI in 2018 and has been involved in a variety of projects, including advising the Department for Education on the Student Loans securitisation programme, government’s financial support schemes in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and advising the Department of Health and Social Care on the provision of clinical negligence indemnity cover for General Practitioners. In 2021, she worked on setting up of the Contingent Liability Central Capability (CLCC), an analytical and advisory unit established to strengthen contingent liability expertise within government. She currently co-leads the UKGI shareholder team for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

Prior to joining UKGI, Rubaba spent 10+ years in Investment Banking advising financial institutions on a broad range of transactions including M&A, equity and debt capital markets.

Rubaba holds a degree in MSc Economics from University College London.

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In addition to being UKGI’s General Counsel, Lucie is also the UK Delegate to the OECD’s Working Party on State Ownership and Privatisation Practices. Prior to joining UKGI in 2015, she worked as a lawyer at Clifford Chance, Lloyds Banking Group and the United Nations.

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

Stuart currently works 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, helping to ensure effective relationships with, and improved performance from, defence suppliers. Stuart also leads UKGI’s shareholder team for National Highways which, as part of a joint team with the Department for Transport, oversees Government’s shareholding. Stuart’s previous shareholder roles include Porton Biopharma, UK Green Infrastructure Platform and Working Links.

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.

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.

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Alexander joined UKGI in June 2021 to lead the credit branch in Contingent Liabilities Group. Prior to that, he had an over twenty-five-year international career in commercial and investment banking at Deutsche Bank, CIBC and Credit Suisse. He has significant experience in corporate and leveraged finance gained in front office origination, loan portfolio management, and credit risk management. Prior to joining UKGI he was heading the corporates team in credit risk management at Credit Suisse. He holds a master’s degree in economics.

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Since joining UKGI (formerly the Shareholder Executive), Louise has worked on a wide range of transactions and governance projects working with a variety of government departments. She currently leads the shareholder team for Sheffield Forgemasters, having also worked on the Ministry of Defence’s acquisition of the business in 2021. Other projects have included the privatisation of the Green Investment Bank, and governance roles with energy, transport, infrastructure and environmental assets.

Louise joined UKGI from Citigroup, where she spent almost 10 years working on corporate advisory projects, M&A and equity transactions for companies in the UK and internationally.

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Chad re-joined UKGI in January 2023, having spent 4 years as the Deputy Trade Commissioner for the Middle East and Director of Trade & Investment for Saudi Arabia, based in the British Embassy in Riyadh. Chad spent the first 8 years of his career at Unilever. He then joined the Government in 2007 and worked on regulatory reform policy, asset sales and trade & investment. During Chad’s previous spell at UKGI, he worked on a range of corporate assets, including leading the student loan sale programme.

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Nancy joined UKGI in 2021. She leads on a variety of corporate finance and corporate governance projects across numerous government departments. She has worked with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Business and Trade, Ministry of Defence, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and HM Treasury. Nancy currently leads the shareholder team for the British Business Bank.

Prior to UKGI, Nancy spent 20 years in investment banking, leading M&A and capital raising transactions at UBS Investment Bank, Canaccord Genuity and Ernst & Young. Nancy holds an Economics & Management degree from Merton College, Oxford.

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Michael Harrison joined UK Government Investments in March 2009. Michael has worked on a range of projects across government including asset sales and financial interventions by Government across a range of sectors. He has also undertaken a number of NED roles.

He has a broad international corporate advisory background having spent his previous eight years before joining government as an executive director in Australia working for independent corporate finance advisor Greenhill Caliburn.

Prior to that Michael spent 12 years in investment banking with CSFB and BZW in both London and Europe. He started his career as an accountant at PwC.

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