Paddy Lye - Chief Operating Officer

A headshot of Paddy Lye - Chief Operating Officer at British Business Bank

Paddy is our Chief Operating Officer and joined us in 2016. Paddy initially held the Change Director role developing the Bank’s project delivery capability. He now leads our Operations function responsible for IT, Information Security, Data Management Office and Operational Control.

He has over 20 years’ experience in Financial Services, previously working for KPMG as a management consultant and before that with Nationwide Building Society.

Paddy has led a range of advisory and transformation initiatives, including digital transformation, data, technology , market entry strategies and customer experience. At Nationwide Building Society Paddy worked across various teams and was involved in one of the largest UK core banking programmes.