COUTTS & CO - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Head of Entrepreneurs at Coutts, Explains the Unique Challenges and Opportunities Facing High - Growth Entrepreneurs As They Scale Their Businesses.
Franklin Asante, Head of Entrepreneurs at Coutts, explains the unique challenges and opportunities facing high-growth entrepreneurs as they scale their businesses.
Linda has over 30 years experience in the legal industry as a former partner, CEO and Chairman of Scottish law firm, Morton Fraser.
She is currently a Non-Executive Director of Edinburgh Airport. She was formerly Chairman of This is Remarkable, a non-executive Director of Adam & Co and is a former board member of the CBI and Scottish Enterprise. She was awarded an OBE for services to business in 2012. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
In the charitable sector, Linda is President of Girlguiding Scotland.
Job Titles:
- Independent Non Executive Director
- Non - Executive Director
Mark joined Coutts as Non-Executive Director in 2015.
He has almost forty years experience in the financial services sector and has operated at Director/CEO level for the last thirty years in both plc and private businesses in the UK and internationally. He is a former CEO of St James's Place plc and has also had a spell on secondment as the CEO of Virgin Direct. Prior to this he was a Director of Henderson Investors plc and a consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton.
Mark has worked as an independent non executive director for the last ten years. He is the Deputy Chairman/senior independent director at Skipton Building Society and non-executive director at the UK's largest estate agency group, Connells Ltd. Previous appointments include Deputy Chair of GB Snowsports, Chair of MyCSP Ltd the civil service pension administrator and Chairman of Equiniti's regulated financial services business.
Mark has a Masters degree in Transport Economics from the University of Leeds and is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Interim CEO
Mohammad's career spans over 35 years in many senior leadership positions across investment banking, wealth management and fund management, covering UHNW and corporate and institutional relationships. Mo joined Coutts in 2012 as Head of Asset Management and has a breadth of international experience spanning investment banking, fund management and UHNW client management.
Prior to Coutts, Mo was CEO at MaxCap Partners (UK Multi-Family Office) and founder of Axiom Funds Group. He began his career in investment banking in London. Mo specialised in Fixed Income and Derivatives sales and trading at the Bank of Tokyo in London in 1986 and moved to Japan in 1990, where he was responsible for building the South East Asia capital markets and derivatives business.
Mohammad Kamal Syed was appointed Interim CEO of Coutts and Wealth Businesses in July 2023.
Job Titles:
- Our Interactive Entertainment Lead
Our Interactive Entertainment Lead, Paul Franks, reflects on another successful London Games Festival and how Coutts can support a promising future for the gaming industry.
Sharmila began her career in strategy consulting and has broad sectoral experience across health, media, utilities and financial services from both the private and public sectors. She serves as a Non-Executive Director at Halma Plc, ITV Plc and Severn Trent plc and is Chairman of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the organisation responsible for assessing the clinical and cost effectiveness of medical innovations in the NHS. She is appointed by HM Treasury to chair the Sovereign Grant Audit Committee and sits as Non-Executive Director for the Lord Chamberlain's Committee of the Royal Household. She also serves as Trustee of the Governing Council of Oxford University where she chairs the Audit and Scrutiny Committee.
In her executive career, Sharmila spent 15 years at the BBC, latterly as Chief Operating Officer for BBC Future Media and Technology, the division that built the iPlayer, and was most recently Chief Executive at Wilton Park, an executive agency of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office convening international dialogues for senior policy makers from around the world with a special focus on global health.
Sharmila read Medicine at the University of Oxford and has been a World Fellow at the University of Yale since 2007. She is also a chartered accountant and was awarded an OBE in 2014 for services to medical research.
Siobhan Boylan joined Coutts in September 2023 as CFO. She has over 30 years financial services experience including wealth management, asset management, retirement savings, pensions and insurance.
She joined from Brewin Dolphin plc where she held the role of Chief Financial Officer prior to its acquisition by Royal Bank of Canada. Before this she was CFO at Legal & General Investment Management and held various senior financial roles at Aviva PLC. She is a chartered accountant (ACA) having trained with PWC.
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