Our Leadership

Catherine Rowe

CEO

Catherine is all about ensuring that we keep our clients at the forefront of our thinking; we deliver on our commitments; whilst enabling our employees to be effective and efficient in a stimulating work environment.

Prior to joining Target in November 2019, Catherine was Chief Transformation Officer for Fujitsu EMEIA and prior to that was CEO of their Network and Telecoms business. Before her time at Fujitsu, Catherine spent over 20 years at Unisys, including being CEO of an FSA regulated Life and Pensions business.

Vivek Agarwal

Chairman

Vivek is the Global Head for Enterprise Verticals Solutions and Portfolio Companies at Tech Mahindra and Non-Executive Director at Target.

He is responsible for creating a robust and differentiated portfolio of offerings for clients in each vertical, and organic and in-organic investments for building capability. He has been with Tech Mahindra since 2004.

Iestyn Evans

Chief Financial & Risk Officer

Iestyn is responsible for overseeing the financial management of the company and helping to drive forward our ambitious growth plans.

Prior to joining Target, Iestyn worked as Group Finance Director at Amicus Finance PLC where he was responsible for leading the finance function and supporting the creation of the specialist bank. Iestyn brings a wealth of experience within financial services having held senior leadership roles at Lloyds Banking Group, Cambridge and Counties Bank and Omni Partners LLP.

Terry Baxter

Group Compliance Director

Terry is responsible for building upon an established compliance foundation and reinforcing and maintaining the risk and compliance framework that adds value to our business and clients.

Prior to joining Target, Terry worked in professional services with Grant Thornton as a Director in its regulatory practice. Terry's practical experience includes most financial services sectors, including retail and investment banking, insurance and intermediaries.

Terry's previous experience also includes working for the regulator. He joined the Personal Investment Authority, which merged into the Financial Services Authority in 2000. During this time, Terry conducted a number of regulatory reviews on large financial services organisations and was recognised as one of three specialists within The FSA in Training and Competence.

Paddy Byrne

Non-Executive Director

A highly successful business leader with a strong record of running and growing significant businesses in the FinTech space.

Paddy has driven businesses with turnover up to £450 million and 3000 people. He has also demonstrated a strong ability to continually improve profitability as a proportion of turnover. Paddy has successfully managed service provision for key elements of the National Infrastructure, including the London Metal Exchange's trading platform and the entirety of the Lloyd's of London insurance market’s support services. Paddy has also driven significant relationship led deals at C-level; most of these deals have involved high volumes, transformations and complexity, all of which have completed successfully.

Andrew Doman

Non-Executive Director

Andrew is currently Chairman at Castle Trust and a Non-Executive Director at One Savings Bank.

Andrew spent 22 years at McKinsey and Co before becoming CEO at Russell Investments then at Premium Credit. At Target, Andrew will help advise on our business strategy, bringing with him a wealth of C-level experience in financial services.

Aileen Wallace

Independent Non-Executive Director

As an established Board Executive, Aileen has expertise in digital business transformation across retail and commercial banking.

She has more than 10 years’ experience in executive and non-executive roles, helping to leverage growth opportunities for several leading financial services organisations including Co-operative Bank, Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banking Group (CYBG), and global technology service provider Cognizant.

Most recently, Aileen held the role of Chair of The Co-Operative Bank ESG Outsourcing Committee, providing strategic guidance to its £17bn lending business. She was also a Board Director at Yorkshire Bank Home Loans with specific responsibility to oversee and govern the £21bn lending division.

Stuart Anderson

Chief Commercial Officer

Stuart has worked in the financial services industry for 30 years leading high performance teams within the Banking and Insurance industries, specialising in complex Business Services and Transformational BPO and ITO.

Richard Glanville

Director of Client Operations

Richard has a tremendous amount of experience gained in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) arena over the last 18 years’ working in financial, telecommunications and automotive.

Marcella Rich

Director of Client Services

Marcella brings a wealth of highly relevant experience, having been Managing Director of Capita’s Lending Services business for the last four years.

Rhiannon Williams

Human Resources Director

Over 20 years in Human resource management and development strategy with extensive experience of recruitment, training, contract management and TUPE transfer across a range of industry sectors.