Fairstone names Steven Cooper as CEO

Succeeds Lee Hartley who is now deputy chair

Isabel Baxter
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Fairstone Group has appointed Steven Cooper as CEO, succeeding Lee Hartley.

Cooper will take up the position later this autumn, the consolidator set out in a press release today (16 September). Most recently, Cooper was group CEO at Aldermore Bank. He has held a variety of senior positions in banking both in the UK and abroad, including group CEO at private bank C. Hoare & Co, and having led several of Barclays' businesses including as CEO at Barclaycard Business, Personal Banking for UK & Europe, and Business Banking in the UK. Cooper has also served as joint chair of the Social Mobility Commission and was awarded a CBE in 2022 for services to banking and so...

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