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RBS GROUP 2012
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Independent non-executive directors
Sandy Crombie (age 64)
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
x Chairman of Creative Scotland
x Member and vice-chairman of the Board of
Governors of The Royal Conservatoire of
Scotland
x President of the Cockburn Association
Board Committee membership
x Group Sustainability Committee (Chair)
x Board Risk Committee
x Group Nominations Committee
x Group Performance and Remuneration
Committee
Alison Davis (age 51)
Date of appointment: 1 August 2011
Former director of City National Bank, 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
x Non-executive director of Unisys
Corporation
x Non-executive director, chair of
compensation committee and member of
audit committee of Diamond Foods Inc.
x Non-executive director, chair of audit
committee and member of compliance
committee of Xoom Corporation
x Chair of the Governing Board of Women’s
Initiative for Self Employment
Board Committee membership
x Group Nominations Committee
x Group Performance and Remuneration
Committee
x Group Sustainability Committee
Tony Di Iorio (age 69)
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
x None
Board Committee membership
x Board Risk Committee
x Group Audit Committee
x Group Nominations Committee