VICE CHAIR AND LEAD INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR
Non-executive director (independent)
Board member since 2022.
Nationality: American. Born in 1955 in Virginia, US.
Education: Graduated with a AB, MBA and JD from Harvard University.
Experience: Mr Hutchins co-founded US technology and investment firm Silver Lake, where he was CEO until 2011. Prior, Mr Hutchins had been a senior managing director at The Blackstone Group (1994-1999) and Thomas H. Lee Co. (1985-1994), and a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. He has also served on the boards of SunGard Data Systems (Chair, 2005-2015), NASDAQ (2005-2017) and Virtu Financial (2017-2021). He served as a director and Chair of the audit and risk committees of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2011 to 2021. Additionally, he served on the board of the Harvard Management Company, which manages Harvard University’s endowment. Mr Hutchins worked with President Clinton in his transition to power and the White House as special advisor on economic and healthcare policy.
Other positions of note: Mr Hutchins is non-executive Chair of investment firm North Island Ventures and an independent director of AT&T. He is a member of the international advisory board and investment board of Singapore’s Government Investment Corporation (GIC), co-Chair of the Brookings Institution, Chair emeritus of the not-for-profit organization CARE, and Vice Chair of the Obama Foundation. He also serves on the executive committee of the Boston Celtics basketball team.
Membership of board committees: Nomination committee, remuneration committee (Chair), and innovation and technology committee (Chair).