Membership of the Finance Committee

David is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, with more than 30 years’ experience in the life insurance and pensions sector.  He has held various senior roles in large multinational insurers specialising in risk, governance and capital management.  He previously advised companies on corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and has been a pension scheme trustee.

He is currently Chair of Finance, Risk and Audit for Middlesex County Cricket Club and a consultant to the world governing bodies of cricket and netball.  His charitable work includes campaigning for the improved understanding and treatment of neurodiversity in the workplace.
 

Malcolm retired from the Royal Navy in 2016, in the rank of Rear Admiral. He served in all types of ship from Minehunters to Aircraft Carriers and commanded a Destroyer, a Task Group in the Gulf and the Navy’s prized Operational Sea Training organisation.  He deployed all over the world and served in the Gulf (Tanker War) and Adriatic (Bosnia).  

Ashore, he specialised in corporate governance, financial and resource planning, portfolio and programme management and ended his career managing a major transformation programme on behalf of the Navy Board.  

On retiring, Malcolm worked for a management consultancy specialising in Decision Analysis, before taking over as Chief Executive of the Bar Council in August 2017.  

Malcolm has a Bachelor’s degree in Modern History from Bristol University and a Masters in International Relations and Security from King’s College London.

He was made a CBE in the 2016 New Year’s Honours list.

Tom is a chartered accountant having qualified with Ernst & Young and serving with them in London and The Hague. On leaving the profession he gained experience with SeaLand, then part of the RJ Reynolds group and subsequently as finance director of Central Trailer International. More recently, he served both as finance director and then chief operating officer of the Tote prior to its sale by HM Government. Tom has a wealth of commercial and financial experience both domestically and internationally having negotiated major acquisitions, financing and debt restructuring packages and undertaken business disposals. Tom is a former member of the Institute of Turnaround and after stepping down from his permanent career, undertook a number of turnaround assignments on behalf of major banks. He is an experienced non executive director having served as audit chair on 3 NHS trust boards and for the UK language school subsidiary of the Migros Foundation in Zurich. Until recently, he was chair of RaceTech, an outside broadcast and technical services company servicing the horse racing industry and was also a former chair of the Tote pension fund trustees.

Steven Haines joined the Bar Standards Board as a Lay Member on 1 January 2017. Steven is currently a Director of Effingham Golf Club Ltd and a professional services company Parkwood Partners Ltd.

Prior to this he a CEO of two new enterprise start-ups (Broadway and Light Speed) in the Telecoms Industry. Prior to this he was Managing Director in BT Group Previous roles include Managing Director in the new independent Openreach Executive, Managing Director for BT Group (Mobile), where he was responsible for transformation into a mobile business, and Chief Operating Officer/Managing Director BT Wholesale.

Steve is a highly accomplished senior executive and NED with over 30 years’ experience operating at board level in complex and challenging competitive markets and regulated organisations. A strategic thinker who demonstrates passion, collaboration, and drive to deliver outstanding business growth. His inclusive and empathetic leadership style creates a culture of achievement through unity, trust, transparency, and personal integrity.

Nico was called to the Bar in 2010 as a member of Lincoln’s Inn. He joined Fountain Court Chambers in 2011, from which he has practised ever since, specialising in Art, Banking, Commercial, Fraud, Professional Negligence and Arbitration cases.  He was appointed to the Joint Finance Committee in 2018, was appointed to the executive committee of the Professional Negligence Bar Association in 2022, and is a member of COMBAR.  Nico is the co-author (with Mr Justice Marcus Smith) of The Law of Assignment, now in its third edition, and a contributing editor to numerous other academic or practitioner texts.  He was appointed to the arbitrator panel of the international Court of Arbitration for Art, based in The Hague, in 2019.

Lorinda Long is a qualified barrister with over 30 years’ experience in the Financial Services Sector.  She is a Managing Director and Associate General Counsel in the Equities Legal Department at Bank of America, heading up the Cash Equities and Regulatory legal team based in London, providing legal support to the various business lines in Cash Equities, certain Equities Capital Markets and International Banking activities, and other support functions.

Prior to joining Bank of America, Lorinda worked at a number of financial institutions e.g. NatWest Capital Markets, BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse and Barclays specialising in securitisation and debt capital markets. She spent several years as the General Counsel of the Treasury Division at HBOS with responsibility for managing and building a legal department of more than 30 people to provide legal support to the Treasury Division’s businesses globally.

Lorinda is the current Treasurer of the Bar Council and also held this role from 2015 to 2019.

Andrew Mitchell KC was called to the Bar in 1992 and took silk in 2011. He specialises in commercial and civil litigation and arbitration. His practice is predominantly in the fields of banking, financial services, professional negligence, professional and financial regulation, and (re)insurance law, with a significant international element. He is a member of the Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR), and also an accredited Mediator. He is a member of Fountain Court Chambers, and was formerly an experienced member of the Professional Conduct Committee of the Bar Standards Board, on which he sat from 2010.  He sits as a Deputy High Court Judge.

Mark Neale has had a long career of public service. From 2010, he led the Financial Services Compensation Scheme for nine years, transforming its capability in the wake of the financial crisis to protect consumers in the event of major failures, and putting many of its services online. Before the FSCS, Mark was a civil servant in both policy and delivery roles. This culminated in Director General roles in both The Home Office where he was responsible for counter-terrorism, organised crime and international work from 2002 to 2005, and in HM Treasury where he was the Managing Director for Budget, Tax and Welfare between 2005 and 2010. Mark has also worked as a civil servant on education, employment and welfare issues.

Declarations of interest:

The Lending Standards Board – Non Executive Director

Froebel Trust –  Chair