Craig Wilson has been appointed as Head of Risk at Newcastle Strategic Solutions, reporting into the Group Chief Risk Officer for the Newcastle Building Society Group.
Craig has more than 17 years’ experience in financial services with the majority of that time in roles covering operational risk, enterprise risk, technology risk, outsourcing and third-party risk management. He joins the business from Atom Bank where he spent 5 and a half years as Head of Operational Risk. Prior to that, he was at Deloitte and Virgin Money.
Phil Grand, managing director at Newcastle Strategic Solutions said; “I’m pleased to welcome Craig as our newly appointed Head of Risk. Craig has a real depth of experience in his field having worked for many years in the financial services industry. Craig will lead a dedicated department focussed on protecting our clients against risk and ensuring our robust, reliable and highly secure solution remains a regulatory compliant service.”
Craig said; “Today's business and regulatory environment is changing rapidly. I am keen to drive an innovative approach to managing risk and compliance and the associated horizon scanning, to ensure we continue to be well placed to manage regulatory change for the service on behalf of our clients.”
