Anne Boden founded Starling Bank in 2014 after a career working in senior leadership at some of the world's best-known financial heavyweights. She was - and still is - determined to ensure that people could benefit from the giant leaps that technology is making in the world of finance.
With the team at Starling, she built a banking app loaded with smart money management tools to help customers control their finances and track their spending and saving in real time. Starling was voted Best British Bank in 2018, 2019 and 2020 and Anne was awarded an MBE for services to financial technology in 2018