Meet the Founder

Victoria founded Cherrybank Consulting in 2019 to assist clients in the areas of operations, risk, and compliance. She is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments, having attained a Diploma in Investment Operations (Level 6). She currently serves as a Senior Independent Non-Executive Director for the listed MedTech company TruSpine Technologies PLC, and chairs its Audit and Risk Committee.

Previously, Victoria worked successfully at board level on business development and operations, most recently as the Chief Operating Officer of a boutique investment manager regulated in the UK and Channel Islands. In this role she was an FCA Approved Person (CF1 and CF30). Victoria honed her holistic risk management skills as a Group Risk Manager of an international insurance group with offices in the UK, Gibraltar, Bermuda, and South Africa.

During her 8 years at the Bank of England Victoria completed rotations in authorisations, banking supervision and insurance risk. She then attained a competitive secondment to the Treasury Select Committee of the House of Commons. Whilst there she published a high-profile public report on the impact of Solvency II on the UK insurance industry, and undertook an assignment to the UK Embassy in Beijing. Victoria also arranged a secondment to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Whitehall), before writing the Bank of England’s report on the impact of climate change on the insurance industry.

Victoria holds a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University and a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a Trustee of Microenterprise Africa and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Forest of Dean Trust.