# Joe Garner

> Joe Garner is a startup investor at Nationwide. See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Nationwide](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nationwide-building-society-llc)
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joegarner

Joe Garner is a startup investor at Nationwide. oe Garner joined Nationwide as CEO in April 2016, inspired by the Society’s principle of mutuality and service ethos.Consumer-focussed organisations have been at the heart of Joe’s working life. He spent his early career with consumer products companies, Procter & Gamble and Dixons Carphone. He was then invited to lead several largeorganisations, first as Head of HSBC’s UK retail and commercial businesses from 2010 to 2012, then in 2015 he became CEO at Openreach, the UK’s digital infrastructure provider.Joe is a Director of UK Finance (NewTA Limited), and a member of the Financial Conduct Authority Practitioner Panel, having previously been its Chair from 2011 to 2013. He was also a non-executive director of the Financial Ombudsman Service from 2007 to 2010.Since joining Nationwide, Joe’s mission has been to inspire colleagues to remain true to the Society’s social purpose; using the power of the collective to improve people’s lives. Joe is passionate about the purpose that we share of ‘building society, nationwide’.Joe is Chairman of the British Triathlon Trust. He lives in South London with his wife and son.

## About Nationwide

VC Fund · Swindon, United Kingdom

Nationwide Building Society is a British mutual financial institution and the largest building society in the UK. It has its headquarters in Swindon, with an office in Threadneedle Street, London, and with administration centres based in Bournemouth, Northampton and Dunfermline.Nationwide’s origins lie in the Provident Union Building Society(Wiltshire, 1846), the Northampton Town & County Freehold Land Society (Northampton 1848), and within the co-operative movement in London (1884). Following numerous mergers – most importantly the merger with Anglia Building Society in 1987 and the Portman Building Society in 2007, Nationwide is the now the world’s largest mutual financial institution, the UK’s third largest mortgage lender, and one of the UK’s largest savings providers.

5 contacts available at Nationwide.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Rhodes | Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-rhodes-2 |
| Geoffrey Howe | Non Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/geoffrey-howe |
| Joe Garner | CEO & Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-garner |
| Mitchel Lenson | Non Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitchel-lenson |
| Philippa Green | Head of Third Party Relationship Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philippa-green |

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