Rona is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants with nearly 40 years experience in leading financial teams in both the public and private sector. During her early career Rona worked in international finance managing the Finance and Treasury teams for an oil and gas shipping business followed by roles at Sotheby’s as their European Finance Director and OFCOm the newly formed communications regulator. More recently Rona was the Chief Operating Officer at Sport England, the lottery distributor, where additional responsibilities included grants management, Commercial and IT as well as contributing to the development of the organisations strategy.