Loraine Woodhouse

Loraine has extensive experience across all finance disciplines and has worked within many different sectors including real estate and retail.

Loraine has been Chief Financial Officer of Halfords Group plc since 1 November 2018. Prior to joining Halfords, Loraine spent five years in senior finance roles within the John Lewis Partnership. In 2014 Loraine was appointed Acting Group Finance Director and then, subsequently, Finance Director of Waitrose. Prior to that, Loraine was Chief Financial Officer of Hobbs, Finance Director of Capital Shopping Centres Limited (subsequently Intu Plc), and Finance Director of Costa Coffee Limited. Loraine’s early career included finance and investor relations roles at Kingfisher Plc.