New Hargreaves CEO to begin work in August

Hargreaves Lansdown’s new CEO Dan Olley will begin work on Monday 7 August, the corporate mentioned right now.

Mr Olley, a director of HL, will stay on the HL board in a brand new capability as an government director when he takes up his CEO function.

Chris Hill will step down as chief government and from the board after six years with the corporate, with impact from 7 August. The corporate says that he’ll help HL till November to supply “continuity and guarantee an orderly transition.”

HL appointed the Dunnhumby boss as its new chief government officer in December.

Mr Olley is stepping step down from his present function as chief government at buyer information science firm Dunnhumby when he strikes to Bristol-based HL.

The agency has not offered particulars of Mr Olley’s bundle however Mr Hill’s primary wage is £700,000 plus bonuses, which netted him nearly £2m in 2021.

At Dunnhumby Mr Olley has been main the event and implementation of a digital-first, data-driven transformation.

Earlier than that he spent he spent 17 years at RELX the place he held a sequence of senior digital roles and helped drive RELX’s transformation into a worldwide data analytics firm. He has been a non-executive director on Hargreaves Lansdown’s board since June 2019. 

Deanna Oppenheimer, Hargreaves Lansdown chair, mentioned on the time of his appointment: “Having labored with Dan in a non-executive capability during the last three years, I’ve been extremely impressed by each his strategic perception and his depth of expertise in digital transformation and, as such, I’m delighted that he would be the subsequent CEO of HL.”

Mr Olley mentioned Hargreaves Lansdown, “is an organization with an distinctive observe document, a robust strategic place and a formidable model. I’m tremendously excited on the alternative to guide the enterprise via its digital transformation and into its subsequent stage of development.”

HL continues to be going through a £100m lawsuit filed in October over its promotion of Neil Woodford’s flagship LF Woodford Fairness Earnings Fund earlier than it collapsed in 2019.

Round 300,000 traders had their cash trapped in Woodford’s fund when it was frozen in June 2019, together with greater than 130,000 Hargreaves Lansdown purchasers.

The go well with was filed by claims supervisor RGL Administration on behalf of an preliminary 3,200 traders. RGL can be suing Hyperlink Fund Options, the fund’s authorised company director and mentioned its declare might high £100m.

Hargreaves Lansdown has repeatedly rejected the allegations.

In October HL confronted a shareholder revolt towards board re-elections with greater than 30% voting towards the re-election of chair Deanna Oppenheimer.