About Rebecca Owen

Rebecca Owen is a highly motivated professional leader with strategic vision and commercial acumen, driven to deliver strong financial results within a challenging environment. People-oriented with a strong performance management background, she is capable of exercising exceptional leadership to develop, motivate, and upskill managers and leaders. Excited to be part of the leadership team bringing a new challenger bank to market, Bank North, she is focused on supporting SMEs across the North with secured lending. With a strong customer focus, this presents a real opportunity to differentiate as a new bank. Rebecca Owen, based in Manchester, England, GB, works at Leonard Curtis. Rebecca Owen brings experience from previous roles at LHV UK, Bank North and revverbank.  Rebecca Owen joined the WillScot Board in November 2021. She has served as chair of the board of directors of Battery Reef, LLC, a commercial real estate investment and management company she founded in January 2019, and has been a member of the board of Public Storage (NYSE: PSA) since January 2021. Previously, She served on the boards of directors of WillScot Corp. (Nasdaq: WSC), Jernigan Capital, Inc., and Columbia Equity Trust, Inc. She also has served on the board of directors of Carr Properties, a private real estate investment trust, since 2013, and on the Real Estate Investment Advisory Committee of ASB Capital Management, LLC, an institutional real estate investment firm, since January 2017. She served on the boards of directors of Horizons National Student Enrichment Program Inc., since January 2017, and the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington, from 2006 to 2020. Rebecca Owen held various roles at Clark Enterprises, Inc. (“Clark Enterprises”), a private investment firm, and its affiliated companies, including as Senior Vice President and as Chief Legal Officer of Clark Enterprises, Chief Investment Officer of CEI Realty, Inc., and President of CEI Realty, Inc. She received a Juris Doctorate from University of Chicago Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Hamilton College.