SKIPTON Building Society has announced the appointment of Heather Jackson as non-executive director.

She takes along 25 years’ experience in senior change, digital and IT roles at HBOS and Lloyds, Capital One, Boots the Chemist, ASDA and Burton Group, and is currently managing director of her own consultancy business and a non-executive director of Ikano Bank AB, JD Sports and Ditto AI Ltd.

Until recently she was a non-executive director of Tandem Bank.

She said: “I’m really pleased to be joining Skipton’s board and sharing my business experience with such an established mutual.

“And I’m very much looking forward to playing my part in guiding the society over the next few years.”

Heather has a degree in Modern History from Oxford University.

She was born and brought up in Yorkshire, and lives in Harrogate with her three sons.