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254 RBS Group 2011
Independent non-executive directors
Sandy Crombie (age 63)
Senior Independent Director
Date of appointment: 1 June 2009
Previously group chief executive of Standard Life plc. He
was also previously a director of the Association of
British Insurers, a member of the former Chancellor of
the Exchequer’s High Level Group on Financial Services
and Chairman of the Edinburgh World City of Literature
Trust. In 2007 he was the Prince of Wales’ Ambassador
for Corporate Social Responsibility in Scotland.
External appointments
xChairman of Creative Scotland
xMember and vice-chairman of the Board of
Governors of The Royal Conservatoire of
Scotland
xPresident of the Cockburn Association
Board Committee membership
xGroup Sustainability Committee (Chair)
xBoard Risk Committee
xGroup Nominations Committee
xGroup Remuneration Committee
Alison Davis (age 50)
Date of appointment: 1 August 2011
Former director of First Data Corporation and chair of the
board of LECG Corporation. She previously worked at
McKinsey & Company, AT Kearney, as chief financial
officer at Barclays Global Investors (now BlackRock) and
managing partner of Belvedere Capital, a private equity
firm focused on buy-outs in the financial services sector.
External appointments
xMember of the Advisory Board of City
National Bank
xNon-executive director of Unisys
Corporation
xChair of the Governing Board of Women’s
Initiative for Self Employment
Board Committee membership
xGroup Nominations Committee
xGroup Remuneration Committee
Tony Di Iorio (age 68)
Date of appointment: 1 September 2011
Has worked for a variety of financial institutions starting
with Peat Marwick (now KPMG) and then Goldman
Sachs, ultimately as controller of the global firm. He was
chief financial officer of the investment bank of
NationsBank (now Bank of America) before joining Paine
Webber and then Deutsche Bank where he became
chief financial officer in 2006. After retiring in 2008 he
served as senior adviser to Ernst & Young working with
the firm’s financial services partners in the UK, Europe,
the Middle East and Africa.
External appointments
xNone
Board Committee membership
xBoard Risk Committee
xGroup Audit Committee
xGroup Nominations Committee
Penny Hughes, CBE (age 52)
Date of appointment: 1 January 2010
Previously a director and chairman of the Remuneration
Committee of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB and a
non-executive director of Home Retail Group plc and
chairman of its Remuneration Committee. She spent the
majority of her executive career at Coca-Cola where she
held a number of leadership positions, latterly as
President, Coca-Cola Great Britain and Ireland. Former
non-executive directorships include Vodafone Group plc,
Reuters Group PLC and The Gap Inc.
External appointments
xSenior independent director of Cable &
Wireless Worldwide plc
xNon-executive director of Wm Morrison
Supermarkets plc
xTrustee of the British Museum
Board Committee membership
xGroup Remuneration Committee (Chair)
xGroup Nominations Committee
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