100 Executive Women in Tech
to Watch in 2022

Kirsty Roth

Chief Operations and Technology Officer at Thomson Reuters

Kirsty Roth is a Chief Operations and Technology Officer at Thomson Reuters, where she drives for a superior customer and employee experience, leveraging the company’s operations, technology, procurement, and real estate teams.

Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Kirsty was Global Head of Operations at HSBC, where she led a transformation of the bank's technology, processes, and innovation capability, including developing industry-first machine learning solutions for payment screening and scaling robotics to speed up customer processes and improve sustainability. She has also held roles at Credit Suisse, driving change across finance, technology, and operations, and at Deloitte as a consulting partner.

A strong advocate for diversity, Kirsty was named among the Financial Times top 50 HERoes for Women in 2017 and Financial News 100 most influential women in Finance in 2019.