Mary is among the most formidably credentialed figures in UK financial services governance. She made history as the first female CEO of a Big Four firm, serving as acting Chief Executive of KPMG UK having previously held the roles of Chief Risk Officer and Head of Clients and Markets — effectively CEO of KPMG's consulting, tax, and deals businesses. Before KPMG, she was one of the most senior leaders at Willis Towers Watson, heading Global Financial Lines — a $300 million P&L — and founding the firm's Financial Institutions industry practice. Her earlier career is as distinctive as it is directly relevant: she served as Head of Approved Persons at the Financial Services Authority, where she shaped the regulatory framework that became the foundation of the FCA's individual accountability regime, and as an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington DC, where she tried more than 100 criminal cases. She currently chairs the Audit Committee of Hargreaves Lansdown and the UK regulated entity of AXA XL. Mary brings to Elemental Intelligence's board something no other board member carries: direct experience of financial crime regulation from both the enforcement and the institutional risk side, at the highest level, in both the UK and the United States.