Gavas will be responsible for the firm’s offshore corporate banking business in London, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man and will be based in Jersey.

He reports to Paul Savery, managing director of Barclays Wealth & Investment Management Offshore & Local Markets.

Gavas was previously country director for Barclays Wealth and Investment Management in Cyprus where he has been responsible for building and managing the business for the last four years. He joined Barclays in September 2007 as chief of staff within the commercial bank in the UK and subsequently held the position of director of strategy for Barclays Commercial in Europe.

Before joining Barclays, Gavas was a strategy consultant with London-based AT Kearney, a global strategy consulting firm. He also worked for Nedbank Private Banking in South Africa where he started his career as an entrepreneur.