Jazz Gakhal

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Biography

Jazz is chief executive officer of Skipton Building Society’s money business and a member of the executive committee with full accountability for the money P&L.

She leads a team of over 1,100 colleagues based at the Principal Office in Skipton and branches on 82 high streets up and down the country, focused on making over one million savings members money work harder.

Jazz is a champion of gender diversity and women in top positions in businesses. She has been named on Green Park’s BAME 100 board talent index, Cranfield University’s top 100 women to watch list and the Northern Power Women list of ‘Top 50 Women to Watch’.

Jazz joined Skipton Group from the Direct Line Group, where she worked for 19 years.

With a wealth of extensive experience, leading multi-disciplinary teams across multiple sites, she most recently spent three years as managing director of Direct Line’s flagship motor and rescue business, leading the business through a period of significant change, overseeing a transformation in pricing, the delivery of complex regulatory change, and the embedding of a new technology and operational infrastructure.

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