BODEN
Anne

• 1. Career

Anne Elizabeth Boden is a British tech entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Starling Bank, a UK mobile-only bank. In 2018, she received an MBE for services to financial technology.

Career

After graduating, she had intended to go into IT but, as a backup plan, applied for a job as a graduate trainee with Lloyds Banking Group, where her career was launched. This was followed by spells at Standard Chartered Bank, UBS, and as Chief Information Officer at AON Corporation. Boden later joined ABN AMRO and RBS, serving as Head of EMEA and as head of Global Transaction Banking. At the group, she ran a payments business across 34 countries.

Boden earned her MBA from Middlesex University in 1990 while working for Standard Chartered. In 2011 she served on the Board of Governors of Middlesex University, which awarded her an honorary doctorate degree in July 2018.

She joined Allied Irish Banks in 2012 as Chief Operating Officer to help turn round the bank's fortunes after the financial crisis of 2008.

In 2020 Boden became a member of the board of the trade association for the UK's banks and financial services companies, UK Finance, and also an advisor to the UK government's Board of Trade.

Anne is a member of the World Economic Forum.