Transparency data

CMA board: register of interests

Updated 27 February 2024

Marcus Bokkerink

CMA roles

  • Chair
  • Member, Open Banking Committee
  • Member, Remuneration Committee
  • Member, Nominations Committee

Other roles held at present

  • Member of the Board of governors of the Manchester
  • Grammar School and Director of The Manchester
  • Grammar School Foundation Trustee Ltd
  • Chair, Development Board, Pembroke College, Cambridge
  • Director of Bokkerhood Property Company Ltd
  • Director of Bolu Ltd
  • Director of Ashwood House Management Company Ltd

Financial interests[footnote 1]:

  • joint owner of private rental property

Investments in:

  • 10BE5 Ltd
  • Clasiq Ltd
  • Kencko (USA)
  • MyTamarin
  • NetZero S.A.S (France)
  • Purdy & Figg Ltd
  • Qualis Flow Ltd
  • Smile and Learn (Spain)
  • Solsten (USA)
  • Tastily Ltd
  • Vitrue Ltd

Sarah Cardell

CMA roles

  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Chair, Open Banking Committee
  • Chair, Subsidy Advice Unit Committee
  • Member, Nominations Committee

Financial interests[footnote 1]:

  • owner of private rental property
  • a close family member holds shares in Cisco Systems through their employee share scheme

Justin Basini

CMA role

  • Non-Executive Director of the Board
  • Member, Audit and Risk Assurance Committee

Other roles held at present

  • Group CEO of ClearScore Ltd
  • Director of Credit Laser Ltd
  • Director of ClearScore Technology Ltd
  • Director of ClearScore (PTY) Ltd
  • Director of ClearScore Australia PYT
  • Director of Money Dashboard Ltd
  • Director of ClearScore Canada Ltd
  • Director of ClearScore NZ Ltd
  • Chair of Trustees of The Money Charity
  • Trustee of Choral Foundation of Hampton Court Palace
  • Member of Unicorn Council for UK Fin Tech

Previous roles held within the past two years

  • none

Financial interests[footnote 1]:

  • Investment in Credit Laser Holdings Ltd

Other relevant interests

  • none

Joel Bamford

CMA roles

  • Executive Director, Mergers and Executive Director of the Board

Other roles held at present

  • none

Previous roles held within the past two years

  • Director at Fingleton Ltd

Financial interests[footnote 1]:

  • none

Other relevant interests

  • none

Martin Coleman

CMA roles

  • Non-Executive Director of the Board
  • Competition Panel Chair and Competition Panel Inquiry Chair
  • Member, Remuneration Committee

Other roles held at present

  • Deputy Chair, Office for Students
  • Quondam Fellow, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge
  • Trustee, Police Now (until November 2021)

Financial interests[footnote 1]:

  • joint owner of private rental property

Shares in:

  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • Royal Mail PLC
  • Santander
  • Standard Life PLC

Frank Dangeard

CMA role

  • Non-Executive Director of the Board

Other roles held at present

  • Chair of NatWest Markets Plc
  • Chair of Gen Digital Inc
  • Chair of Advisory Board to STJ Advisors
  • Non-Executive Director NatWest Group Plc
  • Non-Executive Director IHS Holding Ltd

Previous roles held within the past two years

  • none

Financial interests [footnote 1]

Shares in:

  • NatWest Group Plc
  • Gen Digital Inc

Investments in:

  • Enerqos France S.A.S
  • Callsign Ltd
  • QEV  Technologies S.L.

Other relevant interests

  • none

Cynthia Dubin

CMA roles

  • Non-Executive Director of the Board
  • Chair, Audit and Risk Assurance Committee
  • Chair, Nominations Committee

Other roles held at present

  • Board Director, Chair of Audit Committee, and Member Remuneration Committee Franchise Group, Inc. (from May 2021)
  • Board Director and Chair of the Risk and Audit Committee, ICE Futures Europe (from Dec 2020)
  • Non-Executive Director and member of the Audit committee of Hurco Group Companies Inc (from March 2019)
  • Member of Europe Advisory Board of the Hawthorn Club
  • Independent Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee, and member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committees, Synthomer PLC (until November 2022)

Financial interests[footnote 1]:

Shares in:

  • Abbot Laboratories
  • Alphabet
  • Amazon
  • Apple
  • Berkshire Hathaway
  • Babcock and Wilcox
  • Check Point Software Technologies Company
  • Edison International
  • Franchise Group Inc
  • General Electric
  • Highview Enterprises
  • Hurco Group Companies Inc
  • Intercontinental Exchange
  • J.P. Morgan
  • Manhole Metrics
  • Meta
  • Microsoft
  • Neuberger Berman
  • Palo Alto Networks
  • Twitter
  • Walmart

Other relevant interests

  • a close family member is currently a Trustee of an alumni organisation for a US university, a Commissioner of a US-UK scholarship organisation and COO of a membership organisation for businesses

Will Hayter

CMA roles

  • Executive Director for Digital Markets and Executive Director of the Board

Other roles held at present

*none

Previous roles held within the past two years

  • Senior Director for Digital Markets

Financial interests[footnote 1]:

  • none

Other relevant interests

  • none

Dame Patricia Hodgson     

CMA role

  • Non-Executive Director of the Board

Other roles held at present

  • Non-Executive Director, Department of Culture, Media and Sport
  • Council member of the Science and Technical Facilities Research Council
  • Deputy Chair of Trustees at the policy Exchange
  • Chair of the Audit and Risk Assurance Commitee

Previous roles held within the past two years

  • Member of UK AI Council

Financial interests[footnote 1]:

  • none

Other relevant interests

  • none

Murdoch MacLennan

CMA roles

  • Non-Executive Director of the Board
  • Chair of the Office for the Internal Market Panel
  • Member, Remuneration Committee
  • Member, Subsidy Advice Unit Committee

Other roles held at present

  • Chair, PA Media and Member of the Remuneration Committee
  • Chair, Scottish Professional Football League and Member of the Remuneration Committee
  • Trustee, Scottish Professional Football League Trust
  • Chair, Mediahuis Ireland and Member of the Remuneration Committee
  • Trustee, Royal Museums Greenwich and Member of the Remuneration Committee

Financial interests[footnote 1]:

  • a close family member owns a private rental property

Cyrus Mehta

CMA roles

  • Non-Executive Director of the Board
  • Member, Competition Panel
  • Member, Remuneration Committee
  • Member, Subsidy Advice Unit

Other roles held at present

  • none

Previous roles held within the past two years

  • none

Financial interests[footnote 1]:

  • none

Other relevant interests

  • none

Dharmash Mistry     

CMA role

  • Non-Executive Director of the Board

Other roles held at present

  • Non-Executive Director, The Football Association Premier League Ltd
  • Non-Executive Director, Investec Wealth & Investment Limited
  • Non-Executive Director, Rathbones Investment Management Ltd
  • Non-Executive Director, Rathbones Group Plc
  • Non-Executive Director, Football Association Limited
  • Non-Executive Director, Halma Plc
  • Adviser at Blue Lion LLC
  • Adviser at Blue Coast Capital

Previous roles held within the past two years

  • none

Financial interests[footnote 1]:

Shares in:

  • Alphabet
  • Amazon
  • Tesco
  • Halma
  • Blackstone Inc
  • Apple
  • Microsoft
  • Legal & General
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Mercado Libre
  • Berkshire Hathaway
  • Unilever
  • Cisco
  • Jonhson and Johnson
  • Rathbones

Investments in:

  • Glovo Ltd
  • Olio Exchange Ltd
  • Preply, Inc.
  • Housekeep Ltd
  • Nineteen 21 Ltd (t/a Ismybillfair)
  • Bower Collective Ltd

Other relevant interests

  • none

Erik Wilson

CMA roles

  • Chief Operating Officer, and Executive Director of the Board

Other roles held at present

  • Non-Executive Director, People and Operations Committee, DESNZ

Key advisers to the Board

Juliette Enser

CMA roles

  • Interim Executive Director for Competition Enforcement and adviser to the Board

Other roles held at present

  • none

Previous roles held within the past two years

  • Senior Director for Cartels

Financial interests[footnote 1]:

  • none

Other relevant interests

  • none

Jessica Lennard

CMA roles

  • Chief Strategy and External Affairs Officer

Previous roles held within the past two years

  • Senior Director for Global Data and AI Initiatives at VISA (until November 2021)
  • Advisory Board Member for the UK Government Centra for Data Ethics and Innovation (until July 2023)
  • Board Member of Tech UK (until January 2023)
  • Ambassador Microsoft National AI Council (until January 2023)

George Lusty

CMA roles

  • Interim Executive Director for Consumer Protection and Markets and adviser to the Board

Other roles held at present

  • Independent member of the Standards Committee at the Fundraising Regulator

Previous roles held within the past two years

  • Senior Director for Consumer Protection

Financial interests[footnote 1]:

  • a close family member holds shares in Barclays Bank Plc through their previous employment with Barclays.

Other relevant interests

  • none

Chris Prevett

CMA roles

  • General Counsel and adviser to the Board
  • Member, Subsidy Advice Unit Committee

Dr Mike Walker

CMA roles

  • Chief Economic Adviser and adviser to the Board
  • Member, Subsidy Advice Unit Committee

Other roles held at present

  • Visiting Fellow at Kings College London
  • Professor at College of Europe in Bruges
  • Member of the Editorial Board, European Competition Journal

Juliette Enser, Jessica Lennard, George Lusty, Chris Prevett and Mike Walker are included on this Register as they are key advisers to the Board, although not members of the CMA Board.

  1. All declarations are made in accordance with our Conflicts of interest policy. Financial interests are shown only over de minimis level set out in the CMA’s conflict policy. This information also includes relevant financial interests of close family members (any family member or co-habiting partner over whose decisions on investment matters they exert an influence or in respect of whose investments they have actual knowledge.)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14