Bridget Convey

Bridget Convey CV

AI Director and AI governance specialist with thirty years of experience in UK financial services, including senior, executive committee and boardroom roles.

Profile

Bridget Convey is a senior AI, technology risk and transformation leader. She has thirty years of experience in UK financial services across banking, insurance and asset management, including senior, executive committee and boardroom roles in finance, operations, front office, compliance and risk.

Since 2023 her work has focused on the safe and responsible adoption of AI: AI governance, risk classification, control design, human oversight, model monitoring and reporting to steering groups, executive committees and boards. She is ISO/IEC 42001 certified and a graduate of the Oxford Saïd AI Strategy and Leadership Programme.

Core expertise

  • AI governance

    AI inventory and register, named ownership, risk classification before design, AI usage policy, transparency notices, AI literacy records and supplier assurance.

  • Safe deployment controls

    Human oversight and review points, decision rights and escalation, monitoring and drift detection, explainability, version control and audit trails.

  • Frameworks and regulation

    ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI Risk Management Framework, EU AI Act, DORA, ISO 27001, FCA Consumer Duty, SM&CR and UK GDPR.

  • Operational resilience

    Important business services, impact tolerances, scenario testing, ICT risk management, incident reporting and resilience testing.

  • Third party and AI supply chain risk

    Supplier scorecards, concentration and substitution risk, exit planning, data residency and contractual terms.

  • Leadership and change

    Board and executive committee communication, multidisciplinary teams, the ADKAR change model, PRINCE2 governance and AI literacy.

Career history

AI Director: AI Capability, Governance and Products

Charterhouse Consultants, LondonJanuary 2026 to present

  • Advises clients on AI, cyber and tokenisation strategies and target operating models.
  • Designed and built a four tier AI governance toolkit covering AI usage policy, AI register, risk triage and classification, AI literacy records, transparency notices and supplier assurance.
  • Built a repeatable AI discovery, scoring and board presentation method, with independent validation by Finance, Operations, Compliance, Legal and IT.
  • Built a web based board decision platform on the DIRECT framework, with priority scoring and traceable board sign off.
  • Author of two books and 30 white papers on AI and change.

AI Governance and Risk Lead, Data and Analytics

Global financial markets infrastructure group, LondonApril 2025 to December 2025

  • Led AI strategy discussions with C-suite stakeholders, driving adoption of automation and data driven decision making.
  • Established AI Readiness Levels across core functions, giving the business a shared language for how far each team could safely go with AI.
  • Put EU AI Act controls in place across high risk functions, with ownership, inventory and risk classification for AI enabled services.
  • Established AI monitoring, model tracking, incident management and audit trails, and embedded human oversight into high risk AI systems.

AI Change and Governance Manager

UK asset manager, LondonOctober 2024 to April 2025

  • Led AI product change across a multi workstream programme and designed generative AI workflows that removed manual effort across operations.
  • Owned the AI documentation and governance framework, producing audit ready data maps, process flows and governance artefacts.

Programme Director, Operational Resilience and DORA Global Delivery

Global insurance group, LondonMarch 2024 to September 2024

  • Delivered operational resilience and DORA compliance across global insurance operations against a fixed external deadline.
  • Directed the AI enabled compliance roadmap and AI driven workflow automation across multiple business functions.

Programme Manager, AI and Regulatory Transformation

UK fund manager, LondonDecember 2023 to February 2024

  • Identified, prioritised and delivered an AI use case portfolio covering investment research automation, document intelligence, workflow automation, client reporting and knowledge management.
  • Defined the AI strategy, roadmap and target operating model.

Change Manager, Regulatory Transformation, EMEA and APAC

Global asset manager, LondonDecember 2022 to November 2023

  • Delivered regulatory change across EMEA and APAC, with audit ready documentation for Consumer Duty, SFDR and TCFD.

Earlier roles

  • Programme Manager, Regulatory Change and Operational Resilience, Asset managerFebruary 2022 to November 2022
  • Programme Manager, Regulatory Transformation, Global bankDecember 2020 to February 2022
  • Senior Change Manager, Organisational and Infrastructure Transformation, Wealth and investment managerJune 2018 to September 2019
  • Senior Change Manager, Front Office Transformation, UK bankJune 2017 to May 2018
  • Change Manager, Front Office Transformation, Global asset managerJune 2014 to May 2017
  • Project Manager, Multiple Change Programmes, UK banking groupJune 2012 to May 2014
  • Project Manager, International Accounting Standards, UK bankMay 2011 to April 2012
  • Change Manager, Bank Integration, UK banking groupMay 2010 to April 2011

Earlier career, 1997 to 2010. Senior, executive committee and board level roles across finance, operations, front office, compliance and risk, including co-founding an offshore funds business from a greenfield start and running every function before a board was appointed.

Qualifications and certifications

  • Oxford Saïd AI Strategy and Leadership Programme: machine learning, generative AI and large language models, AI strategy and operating models, governance, ethics and risk.
  • ISO/IEC 42001:2023 Artificial Intelligence Management System, certified.
  • PRINCE2: project governance, risk, quality and controlled delivery.
  • SEC Series 7 General Securities Representative Examination, 1996.
  • SFA Registered Representative examination, 1997: UK regulation, ethics, market conduct, securities and derivatives.
  • ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing.
  • NLP Certification: stakeholder influencing, behavioural insight and executive communication.

Published work

Two books, 30 white papers and a video series on AI governance. To discuss a role or an engagement, contact Bridget Convey on LinkedIn.