John Spence OBE
HMRC
Director
Chairman, Business in the Community Finance & Risk Committee
Born in Edinburgh, with education there and in Dublin and Harvard, John's career with Lloyds TSB spanned 32 years from 1973 to 2005. Senior appointments included Managing Director of Business Banking, Chief Executive of Lloyds TSB Scotland, and Managing Director of Retail Distribution encompassing UK branch networks, ATMs, telephony and internet banking. He finally took responsibility for policy and risk where he forged industry wide solutions on key issues.
John has been Deputy Chairman of Business in the Community since 2000. He is a governor of the Church Commisioners and chairs their Audit Committee; he is Finance Chair at Chelmsford Cathedral and a trustee of St Paul's Cathedral Foundation.
Blind himself, John chairs Blind in Business and Vitalise. He is President of Enable and of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland. He chairs Harlow Renaissance Limited. In 1999 he was awarded the MBE for services to the community, and in 2006 the OBE for services to charity.
John is on the Capital Enterprise Board and a non-executive director at Edrington Limited. For leisure he loves cooking and dinner parties, sport and the theatre, gardening and swimming - and his motorbike!
