The Prime Minister has reappointed Roland Rudd and Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia as Trustees of the Tate. Roland Rudd has also been reappointed as Chair by the Tate Trustees for a further 3 year term as required under the Museums and Galleries Act 1992.
Roland Rudd
Appointed for a three year term from 31 January 2025 to 30 January 2028.
Roland Rudd is a founder and Chair of FGS Global, the leading global communications and public affairs consultancy. Prior to founding the strategic communications company Finsbury in 1994, he worked as a political and financial journalist at the Financial Times and The Times.
Roland is also Chair of Tate, which he has been involved with for the past 25 years, first serving as a Patron, Chair of the Business Advisory Group and then as Deputy Chair. He has also been a Trustee and fundraiser for the Royal Opera House and is currently a Trustee of the Bayreuth Festival, as well as a patron of Grange Park Opera and the Holburne Museum.
He is currently Chair of Governors at Millfield School, a Trustee at Speakers for Schools, an ambassador for Made by Dyslexia and an Honorary Fellow at Oxford University's Centre for Corporate Reputation. He also serves as a Specially Appointed Commissioner at the Royal Hospital Chelsea and is an Ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society.
Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia
Appointed for a two year term from 14 November 2024 to 13 November 2026.
Dame Jayne-Anne is Chair of Moneyfarm, Ozone API, Alpha FX, and Shakespeare's Globe, Lead NED at HMRC, and Senior Independent Director at the Tate. She is also a Director at PRA Group. From 2007 to 2018, she was the CEO of Virgin Money.
A Chartered Accountant, she spent six years at Norwich Union (now Aviva) before becoming one of the founders of Virgin Direct in 1995. Three years later, she set up the Virgin One account, which was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2001. She subsequently spent five years at RBS before returning to Virgin as CEO of Virgin Money.
In 2012, Jayne-Anne led Virgin Money's acquisition of Northern Rock before listing the combined business in 2014. In 2018, the combined Virgin Money business was sold to CYGB. Following the sale of Virgin Money, Jayne-Anne joined Salesforce from 2019-2021. She left Salesforce to focus on her own fintech, Snoop, which was sold to Vanquis Bank in July 2023.
From 2016 to 2021, Jayne-Anne was the UK Government's Women in Finance Champion and continues to support and promote the Women in Finance Charter as an advisor. In 2018, she was named Leader of the Year at the Lloyds Bank National Business Awards. She sits on the Mayor of London's Business Advisory Board.
Jayne-Anne was awarded a CBE in the 2014 New Year's Honours list, made a Dame in the 2019 Honours list, and awarded a CVO in the 2022 Birthday Honours List.
Remuneration and Governance Code
| Trustees of the Tate, including the Chair, are not remunerated. This appointment has been made in accordance with the Cabinet Office's Governance Code on Public Appointments . The appointments process is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Under the Code, any significant political activity undertaken by an appointee in the last five years must be declared. This is defined as including holding office, public speaking, making a recordable donation, or candidature for election. Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia has declared a recordable donation to a political party, donating £12,000 to The Winter Party. Roland Rudd has not declared any significant political activity. |
