Our board

Tim Steiner, OBE

Chairman

Tim is the founding Chief Executive Officer of Ocado, which he started in 2000. Prior to Ocado, he spent eight years at Goldman Sachs, during which time he was based in London, Hong Kong and New York in the Fixed Income division. Tim graduated from Manchester University in 1992 with an honours degree in Economics, Finance and Accountancy.

Hannah Gibson

CEO

Hannah is the Chief Executive Officer of Ocado Retail and has spent the last 10 years at Ocado in a range of senior customer, commercial and technology roles. Most recently, Hannah held the position of Chief Product Officer for Ocado Technology where she set the strategy for the Ocado Smart Platform for Ocado Group’s partners. Before the launch of Ocado Retail, Hannah held a number of roles on the Ocado Leadership team, including as Head of Ocado Zoom and Head of Product & Merchandising. She holds a Politics and Economics degree from the University of Cambridge.

Mathew Ankers

Chief Financial Officer

Mat is the Chief Financial Officer at Ocado Retail and is responsible for finance, operations and insights. Prior to Ocado Retail, Mat spent eight years at Pepco Group N.V – a high growth, publicly listed discount retailer with stores across Europe in a variety of finance, strategy and transformation roles. Before that, Mat held finance roles with French Connection and Telefonica. Mat is a chartered accountant and has a Philosophy and Politics degree from Durham University.

Jonathan Wiseman

Company Secretary

Jonathan is the Company Secretary for Ocado Retail, part of his role as General Counsel and Chief People Officer. Jonathan joined Ocado Retail in 2021, having previously spent seven years in the legal team at Ocado Group, the last three as Deputy General Counsel. Prior to joining Ocado Group, Jonathan was a corporate lawyer at Slaughter and May in London. He has a BA in Classics and English from Oxford University.

Stuart Machin

Non-Executive Director

Stuart is the CEO of M&S, having previously been COO and MD of M&S Food since 2018. Prior to M&S, Stuart held the position of CEO at Steinhof UK and prior to that, worked in Australia as COO and CEO of Coles and Target respectively. Stuart has held senior roles in the UK with Sainsbury’s, Tesco & ASDA, and he has over 30 years’ experience in the food, fashion and home retail sector.

Alison Dolan

Non-Executive Director

Alison is CFO at M&S, bringing extensive commercial and operational finance experience, particularly within digital businesses. Prior to M&S, she held a number of senior financial positions at Sky plc between 2002-2016, including Group Treasurer, Director of Finance and was the Deputy Managing Director at Sky Business, after which she moved to News UK to serve as the Chief Strategy Officer at the forefront of the business’s digital transformation from 2016 until May 2020. Most recently, Alison was CFO at Rightmove plc from 2020 until September 2024. Alison is an Irish national and has a Master’s in Business Studies from University College Dublin.

Stephen Daintith

Non-Executive Director

Stephen joined Ocado Group as Chief Financial Officer in March 2021. Prior to joining Ocado, Stephen was Finance Director of Daily Mail and General Trust plc, and most recently, CFO at Rolls-Royce. Stephen has held a number of other senior finance roles at Dow Jones and News International and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PWC. He holds a BA in Economics and Accounting from the University of Leeds.

Adam Dobbs

Non-Executive Director

Adam is the Director of Group Finance at M&S, a position he’s held since 2022. Adam has been with M&S for over 20 years in various finance roles across the Food, Retail and Property divisions. Adam holds full ACCA and AMCT accreditations.

James Matthews

Non-Executive Director

James Matthews is Chief Executive Officer of Ocado Technology and leads a 4,500-strong team of technologists across 8 countries, building and deploying the Ocado Smart Platform (OSP) for our international partners. James joined Ocado Group in 2005 as a software development intern and has subsequently held senior roles across software engineering, business development, strategy, investor relations and, buying, supply chain and marketing. James rejoined Ocado Technology in the spring of 2018 as CEO.

James holds a BEng in Computing from Imperial College London and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Lawrence Hene

Board Observer

Lawrence is currently Chief Commercial Officer at SaltPay. He previously worked in a number of executive and non-executive roles at Ocado Group and Ocado Retail, including the interim CEO of Ocado Retail. Lawrence is also a non-exec director at PGI group. He holds a PhD in Biochemistry from Oxford.