Chair

Simon McNamara

Simon McNamara was appointed Group Chief Administrative Officer, RBS in September 2013. Responsible for defining and delivering Services strategies and service proposition across Technology, Data and Analytics, Innovation, Payments, Transformation, Shared Operations, Property and Supply Chain Services to support RBS ambition and strategy.

Simon Mcnamara

Chair

Simon McNamara

Simon McNamara was appointed Group Chief Administrative Officer, RBS in September 2013. Responsible for defining and delivering Services strategies and service proposition across Technology, Data and Analytics, Innovation, Payments, Transformation, Shared Operations, Property and Supply Chain Services to support RBS ambition and strategy.

Biography

Prior to joining RBS Simon was Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Standard Chartered Bank Consumer Bank in August 2008 based in Singapore. Simon was responsible for developing and implementing the Group Technology and Operations strategy which supports the Consumer Bank’s strategy.

Simon has held a number of senior Information Technology and Operations positions in the global financial services industry; Westpac Banking Corporation in Sydney (CIO), Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, and Midland Bank. He was also a founding partner in a successful software start-up company, CATS INC, in Silicon Valley.

Simon holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Economics and Statistics from University College Swansea and a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Hertfordshire. He has also completed the Executive Programme at Stanford University. Simon is married with two daughters and one son. His interests include football, skiing and mountain biking.

Career highlights

2008 - 2013

Group Chief Information Officer, Consumer Bank

Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore

2002 - 2008

Group Chief Information Officer

Westpac Banking Corporation, Sydney, Australia

1996 - 2001

Global CIO

Deutsch Bank

1998 - 2001

Head of Global Technology and Services

Asia Pacific Singapore

1996 - 1999

Head of Global Foreign Exchange, Money Markets

Commodities IT, London

2001

Industry Involvement

Spokesman’s Challenge

1996

Managing Director

ASR International, London and New York

1992 - 1996

Global Head of Technology

Paribas Capital Markets, London

1990 - 1992

Vice President – Product Marketing

CATS INC., Palo Alto

1984-1990

Senior Project Manager

Midland Bank / Midland Montagu, London