Board of Directors

Sir Henry was appointed a Director in April 1994 and is Life President, having been Chairman until July 2022. He is also Chairman and Chief Executive of Arbuthnot Banking Group PLC. He gained extensive national and international experience as an executive of The Dow Chemical Company and Dow Banking Corporation. He was previously Chairman and a director of Secure Trust Bank PLC, Chairman of the Banking Committee of the London Investment Banking Association and a Director of the Institute of Directors. He is a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers.

Joined the Board in November 2008 as Group Finance Director. He is also Finance Director and Deputy Chief Executive of Arbuthnot Latham & Co., Limited. He was previously a director of Secure Trust Bank PLC, Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Controller of Citigroup’s Global Consumer Group in Europe, Middle East and Africa and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse.

Stephen Kelly joined the Board in September 2009 as Finance Director and was appointed Chief Risk Officer in April 2019. He has over 20 years’ experience within the Financial Services industry. Prior to joining Arbuthnot Latham, Stephen held senior positions at Citibank Consumer Group EMEA, and Egg Plc. He is a Chartered Global Management Accountant.

Angela Knight was appointed a Director in October 2016. She is also an independent non-executive director of Arbuthnot Banking Group PLC. Angela is Senior Independent Director of Vanquis Banking Group plc, Chair of the Board of Pool Reinsurance Company Limited, a director of Encore Capital Group, Inc and a non-executive independent board member of the Astana Financial Services Authority of Kazakhstan. She is also Master of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers.

She has a wealth of commercial and financial experience from her time in government as a Treasury Minister and as Chief Executive of the British Bankers’ Association (now UK Finance) and of Energy UK. She was Member of Parliament for Erewash from 1992 to 1997. Her previous non-executive roles include Lloyds TSB plc, Scottish Widows, LogicaCMG plc, Transport for London, Port of London Authority, Brewin Dolphin Holdings plc, TP ICAP plc and Taylor Wimpey PLC. She was also Chair of the Office of Tax Simplification, an independent body of HM Treasury.

Lord Sassoon was appointed a Director in September 2023. He is also a director of Arbuthnot Banking Group PLC. He is Chairman of the Audit Committee. He began his career at KPMG, before joining SG Warburg (latterly UBS Warburg) where he led the firm's global privatisation business, ending as Vice-Chairman, Investment Banking. From 2002 to 2013 he served in HM Treasury as Managing Director, Finance, Regulation and Industry before acting as President of the Financial Action Task Force and was then Commercial Secretary to the Treasury.

He is currently a non-executive director of Barco NV, a listed Belgian visualisation technology company, and of China Construction Bank Corporation, President of the China-Britain Business Council and Member of the International Advisory Council of the China Investment Corporation and Chair of Sir John Soane’s Museum. He was an executive director of Jardine Matheson Holdings from 2013 to 2020 and was previously a non-executive director of The Merchants Trust plc and of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc.

Appointed a Director July 2024. He is also a director of Arbuthnot Banking Group PLC. He works at Arbuthnot Latham & Co., Limited, currently as a Private Banker, having previously worked within Wealth Management and Credit Risk.