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Get to know our lending managers: Mike Doxford

From football memorabilia to half marathon training, Mike Doxford brings focus, energy and a good dose of personality to his work and his downtime. As one of our Lending Managers, Mike’s known for turning tricky lending cases into success stories and building strong relationships with brokers along the way. We caught up with him to […]

Steve Pateman
CHAIR OF THE BOARD

Steve has had an extensive executive career in banking, leading corporate and commercial banking businesses at RBS/NatWest, managing Santander’s UK banking businesses and as CEO of Shawbrook Bank, Hodge Banking Group and most recently successfully leading the banking licence application for StreamBank.

He is a non-executive Director at Bank of Ireland both in the UK and Dublin and Thin Cats, a specialist SME lending business and is retained as an advisor to Black Lion Ventures. He was previously President of the Chartered Banker Institute.

Steve took up the role of Chair (subject to regulatory approval) at Recognise Bank in November 2024, having served as an Investor Non-Executive Director since January 2024.