Clare is a strategic leader with over 20 years of experience working in financial services primarily focused on using technical solutions to execute on the firm’s strategy and enable business growth while adhering to regulatory requirements.Clare has been at Goldman Sachs for 14 years leading the firm’s high profile, high risk and cross functional projects and programmes. She now sits in the Compliance Division in the Implementation and Execution office focused on US Regulatory programmes.As part of Clare’s work on strategic programmes Clare has been able to contribute to the creation of best-in-class strategies to structure, develop and implement solutions to solve business problems. She has worked to create standards within her team and for broader usage on best practice to create the right governance and structure to implement change across varying business and products. Clare sits on the Regional New Activity Committee for EMEA which is convened with senior management to challenge and approve (or reject) any new activities across the EMEA business landscape and in 2023 became the first female Co-head of the EMEA Black Network covering the UK and the firms’ continental European regional chapters. Prior to that Clare spent 7 years as the Co-head of the Black Engineers network. Outside of her role at the firm Clare sits on the advisory board of Crisis Venture Studio, which seeks to invest, build, and fund ventures that seek to end homelessness. She is also a Trustee/Governor of the John Whitgift Foundation, which provides heavily subsidised independent education and Care services in Croydon. In 2020, Clare was nominated and featured in the first edition of ‘The Voices In The Shadow’ book created by Tech London Advocates – Black Women in Tech, to inspire a younger generation of Black women to move into Technology careers.