Experience

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  National Treasury Management Agency

  • Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

  • INED

    • Dec 2022 - Present
    • Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

    The NTMA provides a range of asset and liability management services to the Irish Government. These services include borrowing on behalf of the Government and management of the National Debt, the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, NewERA, the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) and the Sta...

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  BMO Financial Group

  • Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

  • Bank of Montreal Europe plc (BME) INED - Chair Risk & Capital Committee

    • Sep 2019 - Present
    • Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

    BMO Europe is the European arm of BMO Group. The business operates out of Dublin's IFSC, is currently 82 people. The business delivers FICC, Equities, Corporate Banking & Cross Asset Solutions for the bank's European institutional, government, supranational & corporate banking c...

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  DMC Coaching LLP

  • United Kingdom

  • International Executive Business Coach, Mentor & Facilitator; Co-Founder ...

    • Sep 2014 - Present
    • United Kingdom

    DMC COACHING LLP (UK, Ireland, Middle East)Executive Coaching, Mentoring & Facilitation partnership, focusing on C-Suite clients. Chairman and Co-Founder; Working with CEOs, Chairs & C-Suite Executive and Senior Leadership teams within multinational corporations, financial institutions, ...

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  National Bank of Greece

  • Athens, Greece

  • INED - Chair Remco; Chair Ethics & Culture; Member Nomco; Member Strategy...

    • Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
    • Athens, Greece

    Chair Human Resources & Remuneration CommitteeChairman Ethics & Culture CommitteeMember Corporate Governance & Nominations CommitteePrevious Member of Strategy & Transformation Committee

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  VERMEG for Banking & Insurance Software

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Senior Independent Director & Chair Audit & Risk Committee

    • Sep 2015 - Mar 2018
    • London, United Kingdom

    2018 Lombard Risk Management plc (USA, UK, China, Singapore)AIM listed provider of global software solutions including trading, valuation and risk management systems for intelligent automation of Collateral Management and Regulatory Reporting to enable financial organisations to manage regulatio...

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  Lombard Risk Management plc

  • London and Hong Kong

  • Senior Independent Director & Chair Audit & Risk Committee

    • Nov 2013 - May 2015
    • London and Hong Kong

    Senior Independent Director Lombard Risk Management plcMember of the boardChairman of the Audit CommitteeMember of the Remuneration and Nominations committees

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  Royal Bank of Scotland plc

  • Chairman RBS Group

    • Dec 2005 - Nov 2013

    RBS GROUP PLC (UK & Hong Kong)FTSE 100 British banking and insurance group. Subsidiaries include NatWest, Ulster Bank, Coutts and Drummonds Bank. Since 2008, part-owned by the British taxpayer. Also listed on the New York Stock Exchange; RBS Asia Pacific Revenues US$3.2billion (2010); 28,500 staff (2010)2005 - 2013 Chairman, RBS Group Asia Pacific; APAC Chairman: Exco, Asset & Liability (ALCO), Risk & Control CommitteesDivisional & Senior Executive Committees UK Retail Division: Risk & Control Global Wholesale & Investment Banking Division: Investment Bank Exco, Credit Risk, Reputational Risk, Underwriting, Asset Liability (ALCO), Risk & ControlGlobal Human Resources: Succession Planning, Leadership Development, CollaborationBased in Hong Kong, with responsibility for Retail, Wealth Management, Commercial, Wholesale & Investment Banking, Non-Core Division; Support and Operational business services. Main geographic focus: Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Macau, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines. Led the integration of ABN Amro in 2007- Responsible for government & regulatory relationships - Senior executive sponsor at C Suite level for key Asia Pacific corporate and institutional banking relationships " Primary focus on G7 and emerging markets debt capital markets, risk management & global transaction services. - 2011 - 2013 served on the City of London Renminbi development steering committee - 2012 - Led the disposal of RBS APAC Equity Broking and Corporate Finance business to CIMB Malaysia- Led the strategic review of APAC retail banking (2009) & recommendation to RBS Group Board (Jan 2010) to divest these businesses. - Led the disposal of RBS APAC Retail Banking in 10 countries mainly to ANZ Banking Corp (2010).

  • CEO RBS Global Banking & Markets

    • Jun 1997 - Nov 2013

    Responsibilities: Global Markets and International BankingEntities: Banks, Securities Companies, Merchant Bank, Wealth Manager, Leasing Co.Locations: Asia Pacific - India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Philippines, Pakistan. Feb 2005 Appointed Treasurer of the Wealth Management Division and member of Coutts & Co. Exco with oversight for product development and multi-asset class product delivery to high net worth clients of Coutts, Coutts Bank von Ernst (Switzerland), RBSI (Channel Islands & Gibraltar) and Adam & Co (Scotland).2003 - 2005 Global Head of Sales and Marketing, Financial Markets (FM) - LondonMember of the Global Financial Markets Exco responsible for Sales, Marketing and Financial Engineering of FM products across all asset classes2000 - 2002 Global Head of Interest Rate Derivatives & Financial Futures - London Responsible for all off-balance sheet interest rate trading. Top 5 global player.April 2000 Post RBS takeover of NatWest, John was appointed Global Head of Interest Rate Derivatives and Financial Futures. He oversaw the rapid and successful integration of these global business units previously under the corporate umbrellas of RBS, NatWest Global Financial Markets, and Greenwich Capital USA and Greenwich NatWest UK. 1999 - 2000 Member, Project Forest bid team: RBS acquisition of NatWest (April 2000)"Creating a new force in banking". https://www.rbs.com/heritage/rbs-history-in-100-objects/history-in-100-themes/turning-points/natwest-offer-document-1999.html. June 1997 Joined RBS in London as Director of Sales and Marketing, Treasury & Capital Markets.

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  Moody's Analytics

  • London, United Kingdom and Hong Kong

  • Advisory Board Member

    • Jun 2010 - Nov 2012
    • London, United Kingdom and Hong Kong

    INSTITUTE OF RISK STANDARDS & QUALIFICATIONS (iRSQ) (UK) (owned by Moody's Analytics) - Member Advisory Board / Council Provider of global competency standards in financial risk for banking professionals. Issuer of iRSQ qualification, a world class certification establishing global compet...

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  Bank of America

  • Dublin, London, New York & San Francisco

  • Senior Vice President

    • Sep 1983 - 1996
    • Dublin, London, New York & San Francisco

    BANK OF AMERICA (Ireland, UK, USA)S&P 100 multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in North Carolina, USA. 1989 - 1996 SVP Co-Global Head of Derivatives - LondonResponsible for the growth & development of the EMEA swaps and derivative businesses - Trading, S...