Bath Building Society Group has appointed its chief risk officer Tonia Lovell to its board as director of risk management.
Tonia, pictured, who is also society secretary, took up her new role on May 1. She joined the society in May 2008 as head of compliance, a job in which she managed the relationship for the outsourced internal audit function. 
Tonia’s role has developed and grown over the past nine years. In 2011 she became a member of the newly founded senior management team with responsibility for compliance, audit, facilities and risk management.
A year later she took on the role of director at the society’s subsidiary Bath Property Letting, a letting agent and management specialist.
Last year she was appointed as the society’s chief risk officer.
Society chief executive Dick Jenkins said: “I’m really pleased that we have appointed Tonia to the board. She has shown exceptional commitment to the development of risk management in the society.”
Bath Building Society, a mutual society established in 1904 to offer savings, investments and mortgages to the local community, today services more than 10,000 savers and 1,200 mortgage customers. It employs around 50 staff in its local branch infrastructure in Bath and has a number of agency offices, predominantly in the West of England.
