Harbant Samra

Chief Financial Officer

Harbant Samra was appointed chief financial officer and an executive director in May 2024.

Skills and previous experience

Harbant joined Spire Healthcare in October 2018 as group financial controller after a successful 20-year career in financial services. He was appointed interim chief financial officer in January 2022 whilst Spire’s former chief financial officer was away from the business recovering from an accident, and then deputy chief financial officer in October 2022.

Harbant started his career at Deloitte in 1996 as part of their graduate scheme and qualified as a chartered accountant (ICAEW) in 1999. He was promoted to director, in Deloitte’s Financial Services department in 2006 before leaving to join Lloyds Banking Group in 2011 as head of group financial reporting. Whilst at Lloyds Banking Group, Harbant was promoted to finance director, Group Financial Reporting in 2013 and during this time led on large scale transformation programmes and on its response to UK regulatory structural reform matters.

Harbant is a member of the Disclosure Committee, Executive Committee and Safety, Quality and Risk Committee. He chairs the company’s sustainability committee and leads on ESG matters for the board.