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Meet our board
Our Board brings together senior leaders from financial services, telecoms and technology, providing strategic oversight and ensuring decisions reflect the realities of each sector. As an industry‑led collaboration, much of our work is delivered through our members, supported by a small core staff team.
Ruth Evans
Chair
Ruth is the chair of Stop Scams UK. She has a forty-year track record of representing the public and consumer interest across a wide range of industries and regulatory authorities. She is passionate about putting service users at the heart of service delivery and believes that bridge-building between stakeholders is the key to transforming service delivery.
She chaired the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority and the APP Steering Group that delivered a new industry code in July 2018 to reimburse victims of authorised payment scams. She was also a Non-Executive Director of the Serious Fraud Office.
Jonathan Quin
Senior Independent Director
Jonathan co-founded WorldFirst in 2004 and grew it into a global payments business with $15bn turnover, 730 staff and operations across seven countries before its sale to Alipay in 2019. A former Citibank and RBS executive, he now leads Q Capital and the Q Charitable Trust; he’s an advisor to Stop Scams and a Patron and Fellow of The King’s Trust.
Mark Tierney
CEO
Mark Tierney is the Chief Executive of Stop Scams UK, the industry-led body pioneering cross-sector collaboration between finance, telcos, and tech firms.
With a background in digital transformation working across media and corporate landscape including the BBC and The Guardian, Mark has led Stop Scams UK through significant expansion since 2020. Mark is a vocal advocate for shifting the global fraud conversation from reimbursement to proactive prevention through shared intelligence and data-sharing.
Beyond his work in fraud prevention, he serves as a Board Trustee for Wilton’s Music Hall, the historic performing arts venue in London’s East End.
Rachel Andrews
VodafoneThree,
Corporate Security and Fraud Director
Rachel Andrews is Director of Corporate Security & Fraud at VodafoneThree, the UK’s largest telecoms operator, leading strategy across fraud prevention, investigations, resilience and crisis response. She has played a central role in integrating security and fraud capabilities following the VodafoneThree merger, and works closely with government, law enforcement and industry partners to shape the national response to fraud and economic crime.
Ed Barron
Google,
Director of Geo, Commerce, Payments & Public Sector, Government Affairs & Public Policy
Ed is a Director in Google’s Knowledge & Information (K&I) Government Affairs and Public Policy team, leading policy and government engagement for Geo and Commerce. Focused on bridging technology and real‑world utility, Ed works closely with policymakers on geopolitical escalations across Google Maps, digital identity, wallets and payments, and Google’s AI policy strategy for Geo and Commerce, including agentic commerce and tackling digital fraud. Previously, Ed spent 25 years in finance at PwC and AIG.
Penelope Clarke
Virgin Media O2,
Director of Fraud, Credit Risk & Operational Compliance
Penny Clarke leads transformation at VMO2 across fraud, credit risk, collections and compliance. With 20+ years in telecoms and financial services, she drives stronger risk management through data and innovation and is energised by harnessing technology and collaboration to outpace evolving fraud threats, protecting customers at scale.
Nathaniel Gleicher
Meta,
Director and Global Head of Security Policy and Counter-Fraud
Nathaniel Gleicher is Meta’s global head of security policy and counter-fraud. He is an engineer and a lawyer, and leads strategy at Meta to track and counter determined adversaries that seek to cause serious harms across the internet, including election manipulation, government surveillance, cybercrime, and fraud and scams.
David Harcourt
BT Group,
Chief Information Security Officer
Dave is an experienced Cyber Security Director influencing strategy in cyber security within BT, telecoms industry, and across UK government. He sets security direction across BT and driving security automation in a mission to make security simple and easy to implement and manage. Dave leads the teams responsible for setting BT’s security direction, Secure by Design consultancy, security transformation stories and industry security engagement. Dave is a BT Fellow, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Information Security (FCIIS) and a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET).
Adrian Quigley
Santander,
Director of Economic Crime Risk
Adrian is a senior risk and compliance leader with 20+ years’ experience across banking, investments and payments. He has led cross-border teams across all three lines of defence, specialising in financial crime, fraud, privacy and information security. He is currently Director of Economic Crime Risk and MLRO at Santander, and has held various leadership and management roles at Virgin Money, Aegon, Travelex and Lloyds Banking Group.
Jim Winters
Nationwide,
Head of Economic Crime
Jim Winters has worked at Nationwide since January 2022 and has over 25 years’ experience in economic crime leadership. Prior to joining Nationwide Jim was Fraud Managing Director at Barclays UK. Jim has held senior roles with TSB, Experian and Egg, the UK’s first Internet bank.
As Director of Protect, Jim is responsible for protecting members and Nationwide from criminal activity.
Liz Ziegler
Lloyds Banking Group,
Fraud Prevention Director
Liz is the Director of Fraud Prevention at Lloyds Banking Group.
Her career is marked by a variety of senior roles within retail banking and most recently in economic crime prevention.
Her unwavering commitment to safeguarding consumers, LBG and more widely the UK from fraud-related threats is evident as she leads a formidable team of specialists and front-line operations, playing a pivotal role in combating the ever-evolving landscape of fraud threats.