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TRANSPARENCY REPORT | LEGAL STRUCTURE, OWNERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE
Members of the Public Interest Committee as at 31 July 2021
Dame Teresa Graham (Chair)
INE, Appointed October 2020
Dame Teresa Graham DBE started her career as an SME/OMB specialist
at a Big Four firm. After 13 years with that firm and, following a year's
secondment to Whitehall, she moved to RSM where she carried out a
number of leadership roles including on the National Leadership Team,
as Head of HR and Head of Marketing. Teresa is currently chair of Salix
Finance Ltd (which invests in public sector decarbonisation), chair of
Pagefield Communications, chair of the SME Advisory Board of UK
Finance, chair of the Administrative Burdens Advisory Board of HMRC
and a member of Treasury' s Office for Tax Simplification. She sits on
the Council of Newcastle University and has a number of SME advisory
positions and mentoring roles. In the third sector she is Head of Parties
and Fun at The Lexi Cinema.
Vijay Thakrar
INE, Appointed September 2020
Until 2016, Vijay was a Partner with Deloitte. Since then, he has
served as Non-Executive Director (NED) on various public and private
company Boards, including Quorn Foods and the Quoted Companies
Alliance, providing support and challenge on strategy, governance, risk
management and leadership coaching. His current NED roles include
Alpha FX Group plc, Alumasc Group plc, Sanderson Design Group plc and
Treatt plc. He is also a NED on the Board of RSM Holdings UK Limited,
which is the holding company for all of RSM's UK businesses, and provides
a link between the PIC and the rest of the firm.