Mutual friend
13 September 2012
Hywel Houghton-Jones has had a varied career working in a range of very different sectors, but transforming the Nationwide Building Society’s purchasing operation has been one of the most rewarding. Mark Whitehead meets the man in the driving seat
The measured, carefully articulated statements coming from the smartly-dressed man behind the desk with the clipped goatee and swept-back hair don’t match expectations. Hywel Houghton-Jones had been billed by colleagues as a somewhat jocular, irreverent sort of chap. A big, pally Welshman with a boisterous sense of humour and a line about working for a “boring...