Peter began his career with Barclays in the UK in 1984 undertaking a variety of roles including specialisations in Risk, Project Management and Corporate Relationship Management. In 1999 he moved to Botswana with Barclays Africa as Risk Director, to subsequently establish and run the Barclays pan-African Corporate Turnaround function based in Kenya. Leaving Barclays in 2004 Peter subsequently assumed the role of Director of Corporate Banking with First Caribbean International Bank with responsibility for Bahamas and Turks and Caicos.
Peter has undertaken CEO roles both Internationally and in the UK, initially with the Bank of Maldives followed by Bermuda Commercial Bank, returning to the UK to lead Diamond Bank (UK) and then Al Rayan Bank PLC. He has gained considerable leadership experience delivering organisational and strategic change.
Peter holds a First Class Honours Degree in Financial Services from UMIST and is an Associate of the Institute of Financial Services (formerly the Chartered Institute of Bankers).
Gerald worked for Barclays Bank for 30 years. During his time with Barclays, Gerald worked within the Foreign Exchange Department, Cash Department, IT Department, Treasury Department, Credit Team leading to a spell of five years where he held the position of Branch Manager. Subsequent to this he moved to the relationship management side of the business where he operated as a Corporate Relationship Manager for a period of five years. Gerald brings with him a wealth of general banking experience.
Kathy worked for SG Hambros for 15 years and subsequently worked for Barclays Bank for 8 years. Kathy has extensive experience in working as a PA to Senior Executives but also has experience on HR matters, Company Secretarial and Cash Management operations.
Mark has over 27 years experience within the IT Industry. He worked with Barclays as a Systems Analyst/Developer for 8 years during which time Mark also worked as part of Barclays UK in developing a Core Banking Platform for their offshore jurisdictions. In 1998 he joined Credit Agricole where he held the position of IT Manager for the Gibraltar Branch, additionally he was also appointed as developer for the Credit Agricole Worldwide Core Banking Platform Team based in Switzerland. In 2003 Mark moved into what was a thriving Gaming industry where he spent 15 years working in Infrastructure and for which he held various senior positions as Chief Technology Officer in Carmen Media and Head of Infrastructure within BetVictor.
Richard worked for SG Hambros for 5 years and previously Barclays Bank for 10 years. Richard is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and has extensive experience in managing the finance environment in both a Retail Banking and Private Banking environment.
Mark worked for Lombard Odier for 8 years and previously for the Financial Services Commission for 7 years. Mark has extensive experience of the regulatory environment having served seven years within the FSC where he was responsible for maintaining the banking supervisory programme and assisting the Banking Supervisor with the formulation of banking policy and amendments to banking legislation. Subsequent to this Mark joined Lombard Odier as their Compliance Officer.
Gerald has worked in the Banking Industry for over 30 years, he has extensive knowledge in Foreign Exchange and Treasury Management. Before joining the Gibraltar International Bank Gerald worked for ABN AMRO and assisted them in the setting up and managing their Advisory and Portfolio Management desk, he has also worked for RBS international as Director of Treasury and Investment solutions.
David spent 28 years with the RBS/ NatWest Group in a variety of roles including the first 17 years in the UK supporting many types of businesses with their banking requirements.
In 2008, David took up a new role within RBS / NatWest Group with RBS International, Guernsey to focus on international finance centre clients mainly in the private equity funds market but also including insurance and trust clients.
David moved to Gibraltar in 2013 to become NatWest Regional Director & Country Head focussing on the growth of the bank in the local market and elected to keep Gibraltar as his home base when taking up a new role in 2016 as Head of RBS International Corporate & Commercial business across its four jurisdictions of Gibraltar, Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey. In his final year with RBS / NatWest, David combined both NatWest Gibraltar Country Head and RBS International Head of Corporate & Commercial roles.
In November 2018 David joined Gibraltar International Bank as Chief Business Officer to help support the continued growth of the bank.