Steve Pateman

Steve joined Arora Group as Chief Executive Officer in March 2020. Prior to this, Steve was Chief Executive Officer of Hodge Group from January 2019 to March 2020, and a Chief Executive Officer of Shawbrook Bank Limited from October 2015 to December 2018.He joined Shawbrook from Santander UK, where he was Executive Director and Head of UK Banking and was responsible for the bank’s Corporate, Commercial, Business and Retail Banking operations as well as Wealth Management.He also held a number of senior positions at Santander UK, Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest. Steve was appointed Vice President of the Chartered Bankers Institute in June 2017. He was Director of The Mortgage Lender Limited from May 2018 to January 2019.

Steve brings to the Board the strategic insights of a Chief Executive Officer of a UK Bank and a strong lending and credit background with deep commercial experience including the operational challenges facing lending institutions. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Banker Institute and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Kent for services to banking.