Nike’s Biography

Nike Shoge is a senior commercial and banking leader with over 20 years’ experience across Corporate, Investment, and Digital Banking, specialising in payments, Banking-as-a-Service, financial institutions coverage, and large-scale business transformation. She currently serves as Head of Commercial Growth (Banking Services) at Starling Bank, where she leads strategic account management, business development, and partnerships across regulated financial institutions, fintechs, and embedded finance providers. She is a Chartered Accountant (FCCA) and Certified Risk Manager, with extensive expertise in P&L ownership, complex deal structuring, stakeholder management, and building high-performing global teams across Europe, Asia, and the US.

Her career journey is rooted in a lifelong curiosity for banking, technology and systems, having studied BA Hons Business Studies with Economics and Information Technology. She navigated a challenging early career as a young Black woman entering technical and financial services, before progressing into senior leadership roles at Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Deutsche Bank, and Merrill Lynch. Her leadership experience spans high-growth commercial franchises, global finance and risk transformations, and multi-billion-pound portfolios. Notable achievements include rebuilding Barclays’ UK & Europe Securitisation Services franchise, delivering double-digit revenue growth, and leading geographically dispersed teams through regulatory, operational, and technological change.

Alongside her commercial leadership, she is deeply committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, particularly for women and under-represented talent in finance, engineering, and technology. She is the co-founder and Chair of Starling’s With-Women Network, which has grown to over 1,000 members and includes specialist sub-networks for women in engineering, data, and maternity returners, as well as founder of the bank-wide mentoring programme enrolling over 500 colleagues. She previously chaired Barclays’ Black Professional Forum UK and continues to advocate for inclusive leadership and sustainable talent pipelines across the industry.

She is a proud alumna of the Solaris Executive Leadership Programme, a global network of Black women leaders focused on purpose-driven leadership, systems change, and collective impact. The programme has further strengthened her belief that representation matters and that leadership must be intentional, values-led, and transformative. Her legacy focus is clear: to build commercially successful institutions while ensuring doors remain open for the next generation of leaders.