Before joining the firm, Hogarth was the global director of people and culture at the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. Prior to that he was the global HR director at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. He started his career with The Boots Company in Nottingham, also working for Abbey National, EY and Capital One.
Hogarth sits on the steering group of the FTSE Women Leaders Review (the successor to the Hampton Alexander Review) which KPMG co-sponsors. For many years he held various non-executive roles with Scope and served three terms as a governor on the board of Nottingham Trent University. In that capacity he was a member of the audit and risk committee, the nominations committee and chaired the remuneration and employment policy committee.
Currently he is a trustee on the board of two multi-academy trusts.
Hogarth graduated with a degree in politics from the University of York. He is a chartered fellow of the CIPD.
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