Summary
Ian Gunn is a seasoned governance and finance leader with over three decades of experience in automotive finance and 11 years of continued professional activity, now focused on charitable governance in Brentwood. He spent 35 years at Ford Motor Credit, rising through roles across treasury, underwriting, sales and regional leadership for Western and Central & Eastern Europe, giving him deep cross-border operational and risk-management expertise. Since 2019 he has applied that corporate governance and financial stewardship to the voluntary sector as Trustee, Treasurer and chair of key committees at Saint Francis Hospice, recently taking on chairmanship of the Care and Quality Subcommittee. Ian combines board-level committee experience—Credit Policy, Operational Risk, ALM and Executive Committees—with hands-on product and commercial delivery (including launching Ford Options). Colleagues value his pragmatic approach to governance: he translates complex regulatory and risk frameworks into practical, auditable decisions that serve both mission and sustainability. Unexpectedly for a governance specialist, he also identifies as a working software engineer on GitHub, signaling an ongoing technical curiosity alongside his financial stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer