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Board of directors and secretary
RBS Group • Annual Report and Accounts 2007
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Governance
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Chairman
1. Sir Tom McKillop (age 64)
C, N, R
Appointed to the Board as Deputy Chairman in
September 2005, Sir Tom is a non-executive director of
BP p.l.c., and president of the Science Council. He was
formerly chief executive of AstraZeneca PLC, and was
previously president of the European Federation of
Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations and
chairman of the British Pharma Group. He is a trustee
of the Council for Industry and Higher Education.
Executive directors
Group Chief Executive
2. Sir Fred Goodwin (age 49)
DUniv, FCIBS, FCIB, FIB, LLD
C
Appointed to the Board in August 1998, Sir Fred
is a Chartered Accountant. He was formerly chief
executive and director, Clydesdale Bank PLC and
Yorkshire Bank PLC. He is chairman of The Prince’s
Trust, a non-executive director of Bank of China Limited
and a former president of the Chartered Institute of
Bankers in Scotland.
Group Finance Director
3. Guy Whittaker (age 51)
C
Appointed to the Board in February 2006, Guy
Whittaker joined RBS after spending 25 years with
Citigroup. He was formerly the Group treasurer based
in New York and prior to that had held a number of
management positions within the financial markets
business based in London.
Chief Executive, Corporate Markets
4. Johnny Cameron (age 53) FCIBS
Appointed to the Board in March 2006, Johnny
Cameron joined RBS from Dresdner Kleinwort Benson
in 1998. In 2000, he was appointed Deputy Chief
Executive of Corporate Banking & Financial Markets
(CBFM) with responsibility for the integration of the
NatWest and RBS Corporate Banking businesses.
In October 2001 he was appointed Chief Executive
CBFM, subsequently renamed Corporate Markets
in January 2006.
Chairman, RBS America and
Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
5. Lawrence Fish (age 63)
Appointed to the Board in January 1993, Lawrence Fish
is an American national. He is a career banker and was
previously a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Boston. He is a an incorporator of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), a trustee of The Brookings
Institution, and a director of Textron Inc. and numerous
community organisations in the USA.
Chairman, Managing Board, ABN AMRO
6. Mark Fisher (age 47) FCIBS
Appointed to the Board in March 2006, Mark Fisher is a
career banker having joined National Westminster Bank
Plc in 1981. In 2000, he was appointed Chief Executive,
Manufacturing with various responsibilities including the
integration of RBS and NatWest systems platforms.
Mark Fisher is Chief Executive Officer of ABN AMRO
and was appointed as Chairman of the Managing
Board in November 2007.
Chief Executive, Retail Markets
7. Gordon Pell (age 58) FCIBS, FCIB
Appointed to the Board in March 2000, Gordon Pell
was formerly group director of Lloyds TSB UK Retail
Banking before joining National Westminster Bank Plc
as a director in February 2000 and then becoming
Chief Executive, Retail Banking. He is also a director
of Race for Opportunity and a member of the FSA
Practitioner Panel. He was appointed chairman of the
Business Commission on Racial Equality in the
Workplace in July 2006 and deputy chairman of the
Board of the British Bankers Association in September
2007.
Non-executive directors
8. Colin Buchan* (age 53)
A, C, R
Appointed to the Board in June 2002, Colin Buchan
was educated in South Africa and spent the early part
of his career in South Africa and the Far East. He has
considerable international investment banking
experience, as well as experience in very large risk
management in the equities business. He was formerly
a member of the group management board of UBS AG
and head of equities of UBS Warburg, and was the
former chairman of UBS Securities Canada Inc. He is a
director of Standard Life plc, Merrill Lynch World Mining
Trust Plc, Merrill Lynch Gold Limited, Royal Scottish
National Orchestra Society Limited and World Mining
Investment Company Limited.
9. Jim Currie* (age 66) D.Litt
R
Appointed to the Board in November 2001, Jim Currie
is a highly experienced senior international civil servant
who spent many years working in Brussels and
Washington. He was formerly director general at the
European Commission with responsibility for the EU’s
environmental policy and director general for Customs
and Excise and Indirect Taxation. He is currently a
director of Total Upstream UK Limited, The Met Office
and Vimetco N.V. as well as an international adviser to
Eversheds.