Valentina Kristensen

Valentina is the Corporate Affairs Director at OakNorth, where she has been since June 2015. With oversight of external and internal communications, events, content, ESG/sustainability, and OakNorth’s UK CSR/1+1% Commitment, she helps set the strategic direction for stakeholder engagement globally and is an observer on the Bank’s Executive Committee.

She is also a Founding Editorial Board member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations’ multi award-winning member magazine, INFLUENCE; a Board Advisor to ETA Technologies – a startup on a mission to empower investors with a sophisticated, quantified, and comprehensive analysis of the teams they plan to invest in; and a Commissioner for The Entrepreneurs Network’s Private Business Commission chaired by Steve Rigby, to address the UK's growing inability to scale and retain private companies.

She started her career at communications consultancy, Lansons, where she was awarded the Outstanding Young Communicator Award at the CIPR Excellence Awards. In 2018, she was named in the Standout 35 of Innovate Finance’s Women in Fintech Powerlist.