King's College London

The new Executive Fellows; Mark Chaffey, Claire Fargeot and Kathryn Robinson take the current cohort of Executive Fellows to twenty. Each working with an academic contact, the Fellows contribute to the development of the School’s education and research, facilitate new connections within industry and the public and third sectors as well as taking part in activities directly with students.

The new Executive Fellows’ expertise in AI, banking and governance helps to ensure that the school benefits from direct industry input from a wide spectrum of sectors and professional specialisms including fintech, human resources, entrepreneurship, sustainability, international trade, finance and marketing.

Alongside the new appointments, King's Business School thanks Lionel Ponsard who has served as an Executive Fellow since the beginning of the programme in 2019, and Gillian Kingston, who has served as an Executive Fellow for three years. Over the course of his six years as an Executive Fellow, Lionel delivered guest lectures to undergraduate and postgraduate students and engaged the Business School’s Masters in International Management students in a consultancy project. Gillian has been actively involved with the business school's I-LEAD Centre for Innovation, Leadership, Education and Development as well as numerous events and activities with students and has also served as a member of its Advisory Council.

Mark Chaffey

Mark Chaffey is the Co-Founder and CEO of hackajob, a Series B-backed HR tech company transforming how organisations hire technical talent. At the forefront of AI-driven hiring, hackajob powers the largest dedicated community of technology professionals in the world. Companies like American Express, Sainsbury’s and Disney use its AI sourcing platform to find and engage the most sought-after talent in the market.

With a decade spent building in the recruitment technology space, Mark is widely recognised as a leader in applying AI to solve real-world hiring challenges. He’s focused on using AI to fundamentally reshape the hiring process—freeing up recruiters to do what they’re uniquely good at, while automating the rest. By driving real operational savings and eliminating manual overhead, his approach puts AI to work where it counts most.

Now based in New York, Mark is scaling hackajob across the US while continuing to serve major employers in the UK.

 

Claire Fargeot

Claire is Managing Director of Grant Thornton’s Governance and Sustainability Board Advisory Practice and leads the research and insight activities for the Grant Thornton Corporate Governance Institute. She works strategically as an executive mentor and board advisor across a variety of sectors and organisations, supporting them to improve their governance, sustainability and reporting practices to enhance reputational value.

With more than 25 years of capital markets, finance and management consulting experience, Claire has extensive skills in delivering growth, sustainability and governance renewal programmes. She regularly provides board learning and development programmes to upskill in governance, sustainability and reporting. Claire is a regularly published author on corporate governance and effective directorship and sits on the editorial board of the Governance Journal.

Claire has NED experience in the listed, private family run, entrepreneurial, youth, health, charity, local authority as well as the wider public sector and she currently serves as the Chair of TechPixies.com, a tech-based social impact enterprise. Claire is an associate lecturer and PGR board member for Nottingham Business School.

Kathryn Robinson

Kat is a strategic and collaborative transformational leader with 20+ years experience across Retail and Commercial Banking leading cross functional teams to deliver extraordinary service to customers whilst reducing cost and driving revenue. Kat has deep expertise in product and customer experience with breadth across transformation, strategy development and execution, innovation and risk & compliance and is an inclusive leader and change agent with a strong track record of delivering results and with a real passion for developing herself and her people.