Rachel Sexton

Rachel is a portfolio NED and holds roles in the financial services and government sectors. She is a qualified accountant and was previously a partner at EY. She is the Treasurer for IWF UK and also sits on the boards of two charities: the Fraud Advisory Panel and WWF-UK (Wildlife Fund for Nature).

She was formerly a partner at EY LLP and Ashurst LLP. She originally trained as an auditor but has specialised in compliance, risk management, corporate governance and forensic accounting over the past 30 years. She now brings this experience as a NED.

Throughout her career, she has mentored and coached many women through the partnership process or on their return to work after a break. She has also sat on partnership promotion panels as well as remuneration panels at her firms to monitor gender equality in the pay and promotion processes.

Rachel earned a BSc (Hons) in Business Administration with Accountancy from California State University Northridge. She is a US-qualified Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a member of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. She has earned post-graduate diplomas in Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime Prevention from the International Compliance Association. She was named one of the Top 100 Women in Investigations in 2019 by Global Investigations Review.

Originally from the US, she has lived in Europe since 2002. She splits her time between London and Ludlow in Shropshire. She lives with her husband, Martin, eight rescued racing pigeons and two cats. She is passionate about wine, gardening, travelling and reading.