Duncan Lawrie, the UK-based private bank, has further bolstered its board with the addition of Jane Parry - its first female member.

Parry has been with the bank for a year and is currently director, head of marketing and new business development, a role in which she oversees marketing and business development strategy, brand positioning and priority marketing channels. In her former career Parry was marketing director for the premier banking division at Barclays and also spearheaded the marketing of offshore investment solutions at Skandia International, part of the wealth management division of South Africa’s Old Mutual.

Earlier this month Duncan Lawrie added Fidelity veteran Richard Wastcoat to its board as a non-executive director. He was at Fidelity for 25 years and rose to the position of chief executive of the firm’s UK mutual fund business before going on to work for FundsNetwork, the firm's fund supermarket, until retiring from the company in 2008.

Since retiring from Fidelity, he has been a member of the board of the Investment Management Association and he currently serves on the board of the Financial Skills Partnership and the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. In 2011, he was appointed as the first non-executive director of First State Investments.