C Hoare & Co, the UK private bank, has appointed Charles Pink as a non-executive director.

Pink was previously chief executive of ASB Bank, the New Zealand banking subsidiary of Commonwealth Bank of Australia; before that he worked for Barclays, notably having been seconded to serve as the first CEO of First Caribbean International Bank, a joint venture between Barclays and CIBC.

Pink is also a non-executive director of GE Capital Bank and chairman of The Cherry Tree Trust, a microfinance charity which he recently founded.

In other recent appointments, in late March C Hoare & Co named Simon Barker - latterly of Investec - as head of charities.

Barker, who began his career at KPMG, also previously worked for Schroders Private Bank, GAM and Asset Risk Consultants.