Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - Arabesque, Barclays

Editorial Staff

13 September 2017

Barclays
Barclays’ wealth and investment business has named two senior figures for its teams across the UK.

Nick Keenan has been appointed team manager for the North East team; he is a chartered financial planner. Having recently built and run financial planning at Santander UK, Keenan has previously advised clients at Coutts and Credit Suisse on wealth structuring with an emphasis on estate and retirement planning, has appointed three new non-executive directors to its board. All of the appointments are subject to regulatory approval, the firm said in a statement.

The new members of the board are; Carolyn Woo, former chief executive and president of Catholic Relief Services, John Ruggie, the Berthold Beitz professor in human rights and international affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and Yolanda Kakabadse, president of WWF International. Kakabadse’s role on the board will commence on 1 January 2018, following the completion of her term of office at WWF International.

They join Barbara Krumsiek, former CEO and president of Calvert Investments, and Georg Kell, founding executive director of the United Nations Global Compact, on the board of directors.

Arabesque is an asset management firm, spun off from Barclays Bank in 2013, that uses self-learning quantitative models and big data to assess the performance and sustainability of listed companies.