dunnhumby Loses CEO to Hargreaves Lansdown

Dan Olley, CEO of Tesco-owned customer data specialist dunnhumby, is joining financial services company Hargreaves Lansdown in the Chief Exec role. A dunnhumby spokesperson told DRNO that Olley will continue as dunnhumby CEO until a successor is appointed in the coming months.

Bristol-based Hargreaves Lansdown sells funds and shares and related products to retail investors in the UK. Olley (pictured) will join in 2023, after a year at dunnhumby. He previously spent more than seventeen years at information analytics group RELX, latterly as EVP and Chief Technology Officer for its scientific, technical, and medical content publisher Elsevier, based in New York. Prior to this he worked for RELX brand Reed Business Information as Global Chief Information Officer. Earlier in his career, Olley was Head of Strategic Development at WPP, and a Software Development Manager at IBM. In addition, Olley has been a member of the Hargreaves Lansdown Board since 2019.

Olley will replace Chris Hill, who announced his retirement in October but will remain in place until Olley arrives, and will then provide company support until next November. Commenting on the appointment, Hargreaves Lansdown Chairperson Deanna Oppenheimer said: 'Having worked with Dan in a non-executive capacity over the last three years, I have been highly impressed by both his strategic insight and his depth of experience in digital transformation, and, as such, I am delighted that he will be the next CEO of HL'.

Web site: www.hl.co.uk .