Andy Hornby

ABOUT ANDY HORNBY

English businessman who was chief executive of The Restaurant Group, which owned Wagamama. In the year 2006, he was made chief executive of HBOS. He led the bank to the brink of collapse in the year 2008. He was also co-chief operating officer at GVC Holdings, Group chief executive of Alliance Boots, and chief executive of the betting chain Coral.

He attended St Peter's College, the University of Oxford , and Harvard Business School.

In the year 2013, The Banking Standards Commission asked financial regulators to consider whether he and two other former HBOS bankers should be barred from future roles in the financial sector.

In April of 1991, he married his wife Cathy. In November of 2003, they had a son and in June of 2000, they had a daughter.

He was the boss of HBOS when it had to be rescued by Lloyds in a deal brokered by Gordon Brown .