This year’s awards for exceptional non-executive directors celebrated talent in the face of ‘material and disruptive’ questions for boards.

The former TSB chief operating officer will become a non-executive director of the global travel and high street retailer from next month.

This past year has been packed with governance events from the launch of new codes, executive pay debates, and leadership behaviour debacles to climate change, cybersecurity scandals and the Khashoggi murder.

The resignation of Paul Pester as chief executive of TSB after an IT failure highlights the risks of tech going awry. But should the CEO always carry the can?