Jonathan Hayward

Co-Founder and Director, Independent Audit Limited

Jonathan has wide experience of board governance in general and additional expertise in risk, audit and control.

A representative selection of his board review clients includes ARM Holdings, Cable & Wireless Communications, Imperial Tobacco, Interserve, Land Securities, Lloyds Banking Group, Mondi, QBE Europe, SSE and Weir Group, as well as non-corporates such as Unilever Pension Fund, The National Trust for Scotland, Macmillan Cancer Support and The Financial Conduct Authority.  In 2007 he got halfway through a board review of Northern Rock before it was prematurely ended by unforeseen circumstances.

Examples of his audit and risk clients are Euroclear, Fresnillo, HSBC and Tesco.

He was previously a partner with PwC in London and Moscow and has been a non-executive director and audit committee chairman of a foreign-owned bank in London.  He is a regular speaker and writer on governance issues and sits on the ICAEW’s Financial Services Risk and Regulation Committee.  In 2011 he was expert witness for FSA Enforcement in a case involving governance and risk management in the London branch of a global wealth manager.