Principal Consultant Steve has had over 30 years of management and leadership experience in Financial Services globally. He joined Barclays Bank in 1974 as a graduate and by 1987 had risen to become a senior executive; where one of his major achievements was launching Barclays telephone banking business. He joined Save and Prosper, part of the Flemings group in 1996 where as CEO he lead a major business turnaround. In 1998 he moved across to run Flemings Global Banking as CEO, where he lead a 50% growth in the business. After the sale of Flemings to Chase/JPMorgan he successfully lead the sale of 3 banking businesses; to Abbey National, Standard Bank and Nedbank. In 2001 he joined the Bank of New York in Europe as COO, where he oversaw a major turnaround in service and operational performance and started the move of operations to lower cost locations. In 2006 he was invited to become advisor to the CEO of the Irish Post Office on creating a new joint venture bank in Ireland, with Fortis; Postbank which was successfully launched in May 2007. In mid 2007 he became Chairman of an emerging markets brokerage business, Global Trader, helping to guide the shareholders and management through its sale to a South African merchant bank, Purple Capital. This transaction completed in November 2007. Whilst at Barclays, Steve was one of the foundation clients for GI and he has used GI interventions with great enthusiasm and success in each of his executive and leadership roles, at Save and Prosper, Flemings and the Bank of New York. In 2007 he decided to join the business and make his extensive business and leadership experience available to GI’s clients.    |
