Founder Profile
Anne Boden
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Anne Boden?
Anne Boden is a founder of Starling Bank, which was founded in 2014.
- Company founded
- Starling Bank
- Founded
- 2014
Background
Welsh banking executive and computer scientist.
Founding Story
Anne Boden founded Starling Bank in 2014. After an absolutely massive, 30-year career deeply entrenched in the rigid legacy infrastructure of massive global banks (like ABN AMRO and Allied Irish Banks), she became utterly frustrated by their terrible technology. At age 54, she quit her highly lucrative corporate job to build an entirely new, cloud-native digital bank entirely from scratch.
Anne Boden was born in 1960 in Swansea. Education: Swansea University; Middlesex University.
Anne Elizabeth Boden was born in January 1960 and is Welsh. She was the first woman to found a British bank, and in 2018 she received an MBE for services to financial technology.