Appointed
Gay was appointed an independent non-executive director of Standard Chartered PLC in April 2015 and to the Court of Standard Chartered Bank in April 2019.
Experience
Gay has extensive banking and financial services experience with significant commercial and UK regulatory and governance experience.
Career
Gay spent over 30 years working within the financial services industry, the international capital markets and with the UK financial regulator. Gay spent seven years with the Financial Services Authority from 1998 to 2005, where she was director of the markets division, a capital markets sector leader, with responsibility for establishing a market-facing division for the supervision of market infrastructure, oversight of market conduct and developing markets policy. From 2005 to 2008, Gay held a number of roles at Citibank (including head of governance) and Citi Alternative Investments EMEA, before joining Barclays Capital where she was vice chair of investment banking and investment management. She was previously a non-executive director at Aviva plc, the London Stock Exchange Group plc and Itau BBA International Plc. In 2019, she became Chair of the London Metal Exchange until stepping down in April 2023. In 2016, she received an OBE for services to financial services and diversity and a CBE for services to the economy and philanthropy in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2021.
External appointments
Gay is a non-executive director of ConocoPhillips and S&P Global, and a non-executive member of the UK HM Treasury board. Gay also sits on the panel of senior advisers at Chatham House and is a board member of the Benjamin Franklin House.