Metro Bank announces that Cristina Alba Ochoa will step down as interim Chief Financial Officer on 14 October 2024.

She will be appointed as a shareholder-nominated Non-Executive Director on 15 October 2024.

This follows a nomination by Spaldy Investments Limited, Metro Bank’s majority shareholder, under the Relationship Agreement between Metro Bank and Spaldy Investments Limited.

Cristina Alba Ochoa has worked in financial services for over 30 years, where she has served as company executive and Board member. Most of her work has been in the EMEA and North American markets, with exposure to SE Asia/ANZ.

During four years as OakNorth’s CFO, she led OakNorth’s financial organisation as it grew both in the UK market and globally, achieving triple Unicorn valuations in several rounds of equity raise, to support outstanding growth.

During 18 years at GE Capital, she held positions in credit and finance in Spain, and then moved to global roles based out of London and Paris. In the last two years, when GE decided to fully divest GE Capital, she was the director leading GE Capital’s in-house M&A Finance Readiness team to execute divestitures of ~$100 billion financial services assets (33 transactions) over 24 months.

Cristina Alba Ochoa is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Directors of Atitlan, after having acted as Interim CEO in 2022.

She holds a double degree in Business and Economics from UAB and a Masters in Finance and Banking from UPF (Barcelona).

Marc Page joined Metro Bank on 2 September 2024 and his regulatory approval as Chief Financial Officer is pending.