Sarah Williams-Gardener

Sarah is the CEO at FinTech Wales, the not-for-profit members organisation establishing and empowering Wales as a globally recognised hub of FinTech excellence. 

Sarah spent 17 years at IBM, latterly as Government Affairs Director with Government departments, as well as working on commercial and innovation projects. She was also a founding member of the team behind the challenger bank Starling. Since leaving Starling in June 2019, Sarah held an interim CEO role at charity Hope for Children, and she supported the early stage set up at Fair 4 All Finance where she lead the consumer insights, market and product design. 

As well as being the current CEO for FinTech Wales, Sarah is a trustee for Surviving Economic Abuse.