Marisa Cassoni

Biography

Marisa Cassoni (appointed in 2013) is a chartered accountant and finance professional with more than 35 years of experience. Her early career was initially in audit but she progressed into advisory services including corporate finance, investigations and restructuring across a variety of industries and jurisdictions in the 1980s. She moved into commerce joining the Prudential Group in London in the mid-1980s where she progressed through a series of senior finance roles to the Finance Director of the UK Division. Between 2001 and 2005 she was the Finance Director of the former Post Office subsequently the Royal Mail. She left to join the John Lewis Partnership in 2006 as their Finance Director and retired in 2012.

Register of interests

• Non-executive director, GFI Group Inc (since 2005) and the Senior Independent Director (since 2009), and Chair of the Audit Committee, joint Chair of the Credentialing (Nominations) Committee and a member of the Risk Committee
• Non-executive director, Skipton Building Society (since 2012), and Chair of Board Audit Committee and Member of Board Nominations Committee
• Independent non-executive director, AO World plc (Appliances Online) (since 2014) and Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee
• Non-executive director, TPO (The People’s Operator) (since 2014) and Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee
• Previously: Finance Director, John Lewis Partnership (2006-2012)