Gerry, who became chair of the Foundation in 2022, is chief executive of Tesco Bank and is a member of the Tesco plc executive committee. He served as Pro-Chancellor and Chair of Council at the University of Ulster and President of the Institute of Banking in Ireland, and recently completed a six-year term as chairman of the Irish Football Association. Gerry holds an economics degree from Cambridge University and received his MBA from Ulster Business School.​

Andrew was born in Edinburgh and holds a BSc in Computer Science from Edinburgh Napier and an MBA in Business Administration from Henley Management College. He has worked for IBM since 1994 and is currently the General Manager for IBM’s Technology Business in the UK and Ireland. Andrew has experience working internationally with IBM living in North America and has spent time in Asia, focused on technology modernisation. He is a third-generation mad Jambo and currently lives in Twickenham.

A lifelong Hearts fan who has lived within the sound of Tynecastle for most of his life, Jim is a recently retired business adviser with around 30 years’ experience, built from a career in professional services firms, the last 20 of which were in a leadership role as a partner with client service, profit, risk, and governance responsibilities. Jim also has great experience of leading and delivering diversity and inclusion initiatives and looks to draw on his wide, high-level experience to further the ambition of the Foundation and its members.

Gary was born and educated in Edinburgh before heading south to pursue a career as a barrister in London. He specialises in property law and became King’s Counsel in 2020. Gary also sits part time as a Tribunal Judge. He comes from a Hearts family and went to his first
game at Tynecastle in 1973. Gary is a collector of Hearts memorabilia and is a keen Hearts historian and was a part of the Hearts archive group which helped to establish the Hearts museum.

Paul is a chartered accountant and currently a partner in the accountancy firm PwC. He has 17 years’ experience of working in the auditing profession and works with a number of high-profile Scottish businesses. His role on the Foundation of Hearts board is to provide guidance around accounting and wider business matters, as well as oversee the Foundation of Hearts’ finances.

Graham represented Scotland at bowls more than 200 times and won world outdoor and indoor titles in his illustrious career, as well as holding the role of national director of coaching. In his professional career, he was 20 years with HMRC and held a number of sales director posts before becoming managing director of a Sports and Surfaces business, which he and his wife acquired in 2015. A passionate Hearts fan who was a leading light in Tranent Hearts Supporters Club in the 1970s, he has clear ambitions to grow the Foundation membership.

Louise is a qualified chartered taxation adviser, chartered financial planner, and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Insurance by profession. She worked in professional practice in the financial services sector for many years before establishing her own bespoke tax, accountancy and financial planning practice in 2006.

One of the founding directors of the Foundation of Hearts, Garry is a bricklayer and a third-generation dyed-in-the-wool Hearts fan. He has been a key figure in the Foundation journey, successfully implementing a number of major initiatives, and in December 2021 – after standing down as a board director – he took up the new position of director of member affairs. This is an honorary director post and while he does not sit on the board, Garry reports to it on his work.