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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based VP’ operating in the Banking space. If you think a VP’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Anoop Pandey
Vice President of Deutsche Bank
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About Deutsche Bank, Stroom Energy: Deutsche Bank, a Frankfurt-based global investment bank, offers financial products and services to corporate and institutional clients.
Peter Wilson
Vice President of Credit Suisse
Peter Wilson is Analyst at Credit Suisse.
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About Credit Suisse: Credit Suisse Group is a financial services company that advises clients in all aspects of finance.
Janina Lowisz
Co-Founder and VP Marketing of Cashaa
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About Auxesis Group, Cashaa: Next Generation Banking Platform
Hamza Farrukh
Vice President, Macro Rates Sales of Goldman Sachs
Hamza Farrukh is founder at Bondh-E-Shams and a securities analyst at Goldman Sachs.
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About Bondh-E-Shams, Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Lora McIntosh
VP, Cyber Security Operations of Regions Financial
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About Regions Financial: Regions Financial is a finance company and it has launched regions mobile deposit for their customer
Pinar Emirdag
SVP, Head of Digital Product Development and Innovation of State Street
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About State Street: State Street is a leading financial services provider serving some of the world’s most sophisticated institutions.
Deepak Vadithala
VP, Data Analytics Lead of JP Morgan Chase
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About JP Morgan Chase: JP Morgan Chase is a global financial services provider that offers investment banking, asset management, treasury, and other services.
Hélène Alunni-Botteri
Senior Vice President, Innovation Group of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Justin Arbuckle
Senior Vice President of Scotiabank
Technology executive with experience on 4 continents. Specialises in driving large scale technology transformation in global enterprises, especially agile methods, DevOps, legacy migration and data centre consolidation.
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About Scotiabank: Scotiabank offer personal, commercial, corporate & investment banking products and services.
Esme Harwood
Vice President, Public Policy of Barclays
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About Barclays: Barclays is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide.
Gillian Lamela
Vice President, Cloud Adoption Programme of Barclays Investment Bank
Gillian Lamela is a Programme Manager with 15+ years of experience in delivering technical transformation in financial services. She specialises in breaking down complex business problems into strategic technical solutions, resulting in multi-million cost savings. Gillian currently supports the Barclays International Cloud & Engineering Programme. She is also the Women In Technology UK Co-Chair and Diversity Committee Member at Barclays where she aims to promote awareness and career opportunities in STEM.
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About Barclays Investment Bank: Barclays Investment Bank offers large corporate clients with strategic advisory, financing, and risk management solutions.
Aurelien Mir
Assistant Vice President of Barclays Investment Bank
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About Barclays Investment Bank: Barclays Investment Bank offers large corporate clients with strategic advisory, financing, and risk management solutions.
Neil Hoyne
Senior Vice President, Funds Client Service Manager of Neuberger Berman Group
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About Neuberger Berman Group: Neuberger Berman is an independent and employee-controlled asset management company, providing global investment solutions.
John R. Bragg
Executive Vice President of Bank Operations of National Commerce
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About National Commerce: National Commerce is a a financial holding company that provides various financial services to individuals, businesses, and business owners.
Jan D McGill
Vice President of Bank of America Merrill Lynch
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About Bank of America Merrill Lynch: Bank of America Merrill Lynch is the corporate and investment banking division of Bank of America.
Jurgen Heppe
Executive Vice President of Standard Bank
Jurgen is an Executive Vice President with Standard Bank Group. He has over 20 years investment banking experience, including 17 years focused on telecoms and media transactions. He has led multiple public and private capital raising and M&A transactions in developed and emerging markets, involving both strategic and financial investors. Clients have included MTN, Orange, Telefonica, Vivendi, Telenor, Telenet, Eutelsat, Batelco, Econet, Celtel, De Agostini, Prior to joining Standard Bank Group, Jurgen was with Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Jurgen graduated from London Business School with a Master in Finance degree.
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About Standard Bank: Standard Bank has a long history in banking and operates in thirty three countries.
Jon Hodges
VP Product – Head of Buy-Side Portfolio Manager of FIS
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About FIS: FIS focuses on retail and institutional banking, payments, asset and wealth management, risk and compliance, and outsourcing solutions.
Peter Francis
SVP – Global Head of Professional Services – Corporate Liquidity & Insurance of FIS
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About FIS: FIS focuses on retail and institutional banking, payments, asset and wealth management, risk and compliance, and outsourcing solutions.
Rohit Agarwal
Global Head (EVP), Product, Digital of HSBC Bank
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About HSBC Bank: HSBC Bank provides various banking and financial services worldwide.
Andrew Dyson
Executive Vice President & Head of Global Distribution of Affiliated Managers Group
Andrew Dyson joined AMG in 2011 as Executive Vice President responsible for managing the Company’s global distribution business. Prior to joining AMG, Dyson served as Head of BlackRock’s Global Institutional Client Business, following the merger of BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors. In prior roles at BlackRock and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), Dyson held senior distribution positions, including Head of the International Institutional Business, and, before that, Head of the Institutional Business for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Prior to joining MLIM, Dyson was Head of U.S. Multinational Investment Consulting for William M. Mercer, and also served as Head of U.K. Pension Fund Investment Consulting for the firm. Dyson is a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He earned an M.A. degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University.
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About Affiliated Managers Group: Affiliated Managers Group is a asset management company with boutique investment management.
Maria Campbell
VP People of Griffin
People Ops person building companies where people love to do great work.
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About Griffin: Griffin is a Banking-as-a-Service provider that helps companies build and launch financial services products.
Jason Welham
Vice President of Lazard
Jason Welham joined Lazard in 2017 and is a Vice President in the Financial Institutions Group with a primary focus on Fin Tech. Jason has over 7 years of mergers and acquisitions experience and provides strategic advice to a number of Lazard’s Fin Tech clients. Most recently, Jason was Corporate Development Manager at VocaLink having led large aspects of the corporate development efforts including bidder selection, deal execution and regulatory approval efforts that resulted in the sale to MasterCard. Previously, Jason worked at PwC, where he specialized in M&A Advisory Services advising a range of clients across various sectors including Financial Services, Technology, Media and Telecommunications. Jason is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, ACA and attended Loughborough University where he obtained a BSC in Business Economics & Finance.
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About Lazard: Lazard is a financial advisory and asset management firm focused on income strategies, alternative investments, and private equity funds.
Kent McCammon
Executive Vice President of Corporate Development of PRA Group
Kent is responsible for the company’s global development including mergers and acquisitions. He was appointed to his current role in 2015. Prior to that he was responsible for global strategy and business development and directed PRA’s fee-for-service businesses. He joined the company in 2007 as senior vice president, strategy and business development from Shamrock Holdings, the investment arm of the Disney family, where he was managing director. While at Shamrock from 2004 to 2007, he helped raise $1.25 billion to fund activist investments in publicly traded companies. Prior to Shamrock, Kent conducted business development for Trader Publishing, LLC in the Trader Ventures group from 2003 to 2004. From 1995 to 2003, Kent directed equity research and capital management for Atlantic Capital Management and Scott & Stringfellow. He was an associate at Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., from 1994 to 1995, and started his finance career as an analyst in New York at Smith Barney Inc. in the early 1990s. Kent has an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce.
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About PRA Group: PRA Group offers the following broad range of debt buying solutions and business and government services.
Chris Lagow
Senior Vice President & General Counsel of PRA Group
Chris is responsible for the company’s global legal, regulatory and government relations functions. He was named general counsel in January 2016 after serving as PRA Group’s deputy general counsel since 2011. Chris has been practicing law for 15 years and joined PRA in 2006 after working in private practice for law firms in New York and Virginia. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from James Madison University and a J.D. from Roger Williams University School of Law. He has served on the board of directors of the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce and the Executive Council of the Virginia Bar Association’s Corporate Counsel Section.
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About PRA Group: PRA Group offers the following broad range of debt buying solutions and business and government services.
Chris Graves
Executive Vice President, Core Acquisitions of PRA Group
Chris directs all of PRA’s Core Acquisitions and Core Operations in the Americas. He was appointed to his current role in 2015 after serving as executive vice president of core acquisitions since 2013. Chris has more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. He joined PRA in 2006 as vice president, portfolio acquisitions and was appointed to senior vice president, core acquisitions in 2009. Prior to joining PRA, he was vice president of acquisitions and group manager for the Credit Recovery Services division of Capital One. He previously served as vice president and regional manager at Signet Bank and First Union. Chris has an MBA from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Wake Forest University, and graduated from the Consumer Banking Association’s Graduate School of Retail Bank Management at the University of Virginia. Chris serves on the board of directors and the executive committee for VOLUNTEER Hampton Roads in Norfolk, Virginia.
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About PRA Group: PRA Group offers the following broad range of debt buying solutions and business and government services.
Alec Murphy
Vice President, Project Management and Business Development of Capstone Partners
Alec Murphy worked in leverage finance at HSBC and Lloyds Banking Group in London for nine years, where he structured and executed senior loan financings for private equity buyouts in the UK and across Europe. Alec is a first-class honours graduate in business and finance from the Cass Business School in London. He has his banking graduate qualifications and holds numerous CISI certificates. He speaks English and French.
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About Capstone Partners: Capstone Partners is an investment bank that provides global fundraising and advisory services.
Jesse Deering
SVP & Managing Director Retail Branch Banking & Marketing of Mackinac Financial Corporation
Deering joined mBank in 2005 and has over 10 years of banking experience. He is responsible for oversight of mBank’s retail branch banking, Operations Department and IT Department. Additionally, he leads strategic planning efforts for Senior Management and is involved in various intercompany initiatives including M&A activities and special projects. Prior to this role, he was in charge of all banking related activities in Southeast Michigan. Deering began his career at West Shore Bank (Ludington, Michigan) as a consumer and commercial lender. He holds an undergraduate degree from Albion College and a MBA from the University of Notre Dame.
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About Mackinac Financial Corporation, Mackinac Financial Corporation: Mackinac Financial Corporation is a provider of commercial and retail banking products and services.
David Leslie
Senior Vice President of Mackinac Financial Corporation
Leslie has over 10 years of experience in the banking industry. As SVP/ Southeast Michigan and Gaylord Commercial Lending Manager, he is responsible for all commercial lending operations in the Southeast Michigan and Gaylord markets including management of the lending team and loan portfolio. Prior to mBank, he spent almost eight years at Fidelity Bank (Ann Arbor, MI) as a Vice President of Commercial Lending overseeing a $50 million loan portfolio and the loan workout areas. He has an undergraduate degree from Albion College and a MBA from Wayne State University.
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About Mackinac Financial Corporation: Mackinac Financial Corporation is a provider of commercial and retail banking products and services.
