About BoardReady

Deanna is an experienced global corporate board leader. After a career in financial services as a turnaround executive known for her ability to transform entrenched institutions into forward thinking, customer-centric champions, she brought that experience into boardrooms in North America, the UK and continental Europe. Her passion and belief in the power of diversity around a boardroom table spurred her to start BoardReady.io in 2017, a non-profit that accelerates the diversification of governing boards in the US via a proprietary digital platform delivered through seasoned board directors.  

Deanna is currently serving in the UK as Chair-designate for FTSE 100 IHG Hotels & Resorts, and Chair of Hargreaves Lansdown, a FTSE-100 financial services company. In North America, she is a non-executive director at Thomson Reuters, jointly listed on both the Canadian and New York Stock Exchanges, and for the private Seattle company, Slalom, a digital transformation consultancy.  Other company boards upon which Deanna has served in the past include Tesco plc and Tesco Bank, Whitbread plc, Worldpay plc, AXA Global, Brooks Running, Vettd, NCR, Catellus, UNICO, Plum Creek Timber and Joshua Green Corporation.

Deanna founded CameoWorks in 2005 which advised entrepreneurs in the areas of transformation, growth through scale techniques, and stakeholder management.  The firm is not active currently as Deanna is focusing her professional commitments on board work.  

Previously, Deanna worked at Barclays, starting as chief operating officer of the UK business before becoming CEO of UK and Western Europe Retail Banking. Her final role was Vice Chair, Global Retail Banking. Deanna’s clear customer-focused strategies led to Barclays’ #1 ranking among high street banks in customer satisfaction and 92% employee engagement. Her relentless focus helped achieve double-digit growth in annual financial results in the UK and to stabilize Barclays’ Western Europe business during the euro crisis.

Before Barclays, Deanna was the President of Consumer Banking at Washington Mutual, Inc. During her tenure, Washington Mutual was named Best Retail Bank in the Americas by Lafferty International and Top 40 Store Concepts in the World by Retail Industry Leaders Association.

During the past 5 years, Deanna was presented the Lifetime Achievement award by the U.K. Inspiring Leadership Trust. She was also named Diversity Director of the Year by the Puget Sound Business Journal and shortlisted for FTSE 100 Director of the Year. Previously, Deanna was inducted into the Junior Achievement/Puget Sound Business Hall of Fame and was voted Puget Sound Business Journal’s Women of Influence.  Deanna is sought after as a mentor for high potential CEO’s and Chairs.

Deanna divides her time between London and Seattle, where she lives with her husband, John.  They have two adult children and one grandchild. She graduated with honors from the University of Puget Sound and she also attended the Executive Education program at the Kellogg School of Management.  Deanna is past chair of trustees for Puget Sound and a recipient of the Ernest T. Stewart National Award for university volunteers.  

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Charlotte Guyman is a director and a strategic advisor with more than 35 years of experience in the technology industry and 19 years as a director for public, private and not-for-profit entities in healthcare, education, insurance, energy, transportation, manufacturing, tourism, construction and consumer businesses. Charlotte worked at Microsoft Corporation from 1987-1999, ultimately serving as General Manager in the consumer division. During this Microsoft tenure, she was General Manager of Kids and Games software, MSN Sales & Sales Marketing, as well as Director of International Marketing and Director of Consumer Division Marketing. Prior to business school she had a 5-year career at Hewlett Packard in technology sales and systems engineering management.

Charlotte has been a Director of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. since 2003, serving on the Finance & Audit Committee. She is also a Director for the Space Needle Corporation where she is on the Compensation and Governance committees (most recently as Chair of the latter) and on the Advisory Board for Brooks Running. She was also the independent Director for Seattle start up Pro.com. Guyman has been a Trustee for the global NGO Save the Children since 2007 and she currently serves on the Executive & Audit committees, she is Chair of the Program Quality committee and the Child Safeguarding Trustee.  Charlotte was chairman of the University of Washington Medicine board and served on that board from 2000-2010. She currently serves on the governing board of the Brotman Baty Insitute for Precision Medicine at the University of Washington. In addition, Guyman is a Strategic Advisor Partner at the consulting firm, Cameoworks and a co-founder of Board Ready—a not for profit working to get more women and people of color on boards.

She has been happily married for 33  years and has three children ages 32, 30, and 2—all of whom work in technology.  Guyman loves being in nature, sailing, skiing, cycling and running.  She has a B.S. in Zoology and an MBA from the University of Washington.

Phyllis is an experienced director, having served on Fortune 500 corporate boards, including: Puget Sound Energy (PSE), Safeco, Nordstrom, and Alaska Air Group. She has served as lead independent director on two boards and has chaired Audit, Finance Governance, and Compensation Committees. She currently sits on the board of Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), the private company board of SanMar, and recently joined the board of the nonprofit Allen Institute. She also serves on several other nonprofit boards including currently chairing the board of the U.S.-Japan Council. She is an advisory director for Toyota, NA.

Phyllis is an experienced C-Suite executive having been CEO at her two previous organizations: US Bank of Washington and The Seattle Foundation where under her leadership the size of each organization doubled. Her current executive role is as a corporate Vice Chairman for JPMorgan Chase & Co., overseeing the Pacific Northwest for the firm.

She is a graduate of the University of Washington’s Executive MBA program and has an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Washington State University.

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