Transparency data

CMA board: register of interests

Updated 18 March 2025

Joel Bamford

CMA roles

  • Executive Director for Mergers, Office for the Internal Market and Subsidy Advice Unit, and Executive Director of the Board
  • Chair, Subsidy Advice Unit Committee
  • Member, Digital Markets Board Committee
  • Member, Executive Committee
  • Member, Case and Policy Committee

Other roles held at present

  • none

Previous roles held within the past 2 years

  • Director at Fingleton Ltd

Financial interests[footnote 1]

  • none

Other relevant interests

  • none

Justin Basini

CMA role

  • Non-Executive Director of the Board
  • Member, Audit and Risk Assurance Committee

Other roles held at present

  • Group CEO of ClearScore Ltd
  • Director of Credit Laser Ltd
  • Director of ClearScore Technology Ltd
  • Director of ClearScore (PTY) Ltd
  • Director of ClearScore Australia PYT
  • Director of Money Dashboard Ltd
  • Director of ClearScore Canada Ltd
  • Director of ClearScore NZ Ltd
  • Chair of Trustees of The Money Charity
  • Trustee of Choral Foundation of Hampton Court Palace
  • Member of Unicorn Council for UK Fin Tech

Previous roles held within the past 2 years

  • none

Financial interests[footnote 1]

  • Investment in Credit Laser Holdings Ltd

Other relevant interests

  • none

Sarah Cardell

CMA roles

  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Chair, Executive Committee
  • Chair, Case and Policy Committee
  • Member, Nominations Committee
  • Member, Digital Markets Board Committee

Financial interests[footnote 1]

  • owner of private rental property
  • a close family member holds shares in Cisco Systems through their employee share scheme

Martin Coleman

CMA roles

  • Non-Executive Director of the Board
  • Competition Panel Chair and Competition Panel Inquiry Chair
  • Chair, Remuneration Committee
  • Member, Digital Markets Board Committee
  • Member, Case and Policy Committee

Other roles held at present

  • Deputy Chair, Office for Students
  • Quondam Fellow, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge
  • Trustee, Police Now (until November 2021)

Financial interests[footnote 1]

  • joint owner of private rental property

Shares in:

  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • Royal Mail PLC
  • Santander
  • Standard Life PLC

Cynthia Dubin

CMA roles

  • Non-Executive Director of the Board
  • Senior Independent Director
  • Chair, Audit and Risk Assurance Committee
  • Chair, Nominations Committee

Other roles held at present

  • Board Director and Chair of the Risk and Audit Committee, ICE Futures Europe (from December 2020)
  • Non-Executive Director and member of the Audit committee of Hurco Group Companies Inc (from March 2019)
  • Member of Europe Advisory Board of the Hawthorn Club

Financial interests[footnote 1]

Shares in:

  • Abbot Laboratories
  • Alphabet
  • Amazon
  • Apple
  • Berkshire Hathaway
  • Babcock and Wilcox
  • Check Point Software Technologies Company
  • Deep Mirror
  • Edison International
  • Highview Enterprises
  • Hurco Group Companies Inc
  • Intercontinental Exchange
  • J.P. Morgan
  • London Devices
  • Manhole Metrics
  • Meta
  • Microsoft
  • Neuberger Berman
  • Palo Alto Networks
  • Walmart

Other relevant interests

  • a close family member is currently a Trustee of an alumni organisation for a US university

Juliette Enser

CMA roles

  • Executive Director for Competition Enforcement and Executive Director of the Board
  • Member, Digital Markets Board Committee
  • Member, Executive Committee
  • Member, Case and Policy Committee

Other roles held at present

  • none

Previous roles held within the past 2 years

  • Senior Director for Cartels

Financial interests[footnote 1]

  • none

Other relevant interests

  • none

Doug Gurr

CMA roles

  • Interim Chair
  • Chair, Digital Markets Board Committee
  • Member, Nominations Committee
  • Member, Renumeration Committee

Other roles held at present

  • Director of the Natural History Museum
  • Chair, Alan Turning Institute

Previous roles held within the past 2 years

  • none

Financial interests[footnote 1]

  • none

Other relevant interests

  • none

Will Hayter

CMA roles

  • Executive Director for Digital Markets and Executive Director of the Board
  • Member, Digital Markets Board Committee

Other roles held at present

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Previous roles held within the past 2 years

  • Senior Director for Digital Markets

Financial interests[footnote 1]

  • none

Other relevant interests

  • none

Dame Patricia HodgsonÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

CMA role

  • Non-Executive Director of the Board
  • Member, Digital Markets Board Committee

Other roles held at present

  • Council member of the Science and Technical Facilities Research Council
  • Deputy Chair of Trustees at the Policy Exchange
  • Chair of the Audit and Risk Assurance Commitee

Previous roles held within the past 2 years

  • Member of UK AI Council

Financial interests[footnote 1]

  • none

Other relevant interests

  • none

Daniel Lambauer

CMA roles:

  • Chief Operations Officer and Executive Director of the Board
  • Chair, People and Operations Committee
  • Member, Executive Committee

Other roles held at present

  • External member of the Audit Committee of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of Ireland

Previous roles held within the past 2 years

  • Executive Director and Board Member, Strategy and Resources, National Audit Office (NAO)
  • Chief Information Officer, National Audit Officer (NAO)
  • Senior Information Responsible Owner (SIRO), National Audit Office (NAO)
  • Trustee, Bromley Mencap

Financial interests[footnote 1]

  • none

Murdoch MacLennan

CMA roles

  • Non-Executive Director of the Board
  • Chair of the Office for the Internal Market Panel
  • Member, Remuneration Committee
  • Member, Subsidy Advice Unit Committee

Other roles held at present

  • Chair, PA Media and Member of the Remuneration Committee
  • Chair, Scottish Professional Football League and Member of the Remuneration Committee
  • Trustee, Scottish Professional Football League Trust
  • Chair, Mediahuis Ireland andÌýMember of the Remuneration Committee
  • Trustee, Royal Museums Greenwich andÌýMember of the Remuneration Committee

Financial interests[footnote 1]

  • a close family member owns a private rental property

Cyrus Mehta

CMA roles

  • Non-Executive Director of the Board
  • Member, Competition Panel
  • Member, Remuneration Committee
  • Member, Subsidy Advice Unit
  • Member, Digital Markets Board Committee

Other roles held at present

  • none

Previous roles held within the past 2 years

  • none

Financial interests[footnote 1]

  • none

Other relevant interests

  • none

Dharmash MistryÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

CMA role

  • Non-Executive Director of the Board
  • Member, Digital Markets Board Committee

Other roles held at present

  • Non-Executive Director, The Football Association Premier League Ltd
  • Non-Executive Director, Investec Wealth & Investment Limited
  • Non-Executive Director, Rathbones Investment Management Ltd
  • Non-Executive Director, Rathbones Group Plc
  • Non-Executive Director, Football Association Limited
  • Non-Executive Director, Halma Plc
  • Adviser at Blue Lion LLC
  • Adviser at Blue Coast Capital

Previous roles held within the past 2 years

  • none

Financial interests[footnote 1]

Shares in:

  • Tesco
  • Halma
  • Blackstone Inc
  • Legal & General
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Mercado Libre
  • Berkshire Hathaway
  • Unilever
  • Cisco
  • Jonhson and Johnson
  • Rathbones

Investments in:

  • Glovo Ltd
  • Olio Exchange Ltd
  • Preply, Inc.
  • Housekeep Ltd
  • Nineteen 21 Ltd (t/a Ismybillfair)
  • Bower Collective Ltd

Other relevant interests

  • none

Key advisers to the board

The following people are included on this register because they are key advisers to the board, but not members of it.

Dr Karen Croxson

CMA roles

  • Chief Data, Technology and Insight Officer and adviser to the Board
  • Member, Executive Committee
  • Member, Case and Policy Committee

Other roles held at present

  • Non-executive director for FinRegLab
  • Honorary Professor in Economics at the University of Nottingham

Previous roles held within the past 2 years

  • Deputy Chief Economist and Head of Economics, Behavioural Science and Data Science at the Financial Conduct Authority

Financial interests[footnote 1]

  • None

Other relevant interests

  • None

Jessica Lennard

CMA roles

  • Chief Strategy and External Affairs Officer and adviser to the Board
  • Member, Executive Committee
  • Member, Case and Policy Committee

Previous roles held within the past 2 years

  • Advisory Board Member for the UK Government Centra for Data Ethics and Innovation (until July 2023)

George Lusty

CMA roles

  • Interim Executive Director for Consumer Protection and Markets and adviser to the Board
  • Member, Executive Committee
  • Member, Case and Policy Committee

Other roles held at present

  • Independent member of the Standards Committee at the Fundraising Regulator

Previous roles held within the past 2 years

  • Senior Director for Consumer Protection

Financial interests[footnote 1]

  • a close family member holds shares in Barclays Bank Plc through their previous employment with Barclays.

Other relevant interests

  • none

Chris Prevett

CMA roles

  • General Counsel and adviser to the Board
  • Member, Subsidy Advice Unit Committee
  • Member, Executive Committee
  • Member, Case and Policy Committee

Dr Mike Walker

CMA roles

  • Chief Economic Adviser and adviser to the Board
  • Member, Subsidy Advice Unit Committee
  • Member, Executive Committee
  • Member, Case and Policy Committee

Other roles held at present

  • Professor in Practice at the University of Durham
  • Professor at College of Europe in Bruges
  • Member of the Editorial Board, European Competition Journal
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