Ellen Alemany
Chief Executive Officer, RBS Americas/Citizens Financial Group
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 Ellen Alemany is Chief Executive Officer of RBS Americas and Citizens Financial Group, Inc. RBS Americas is the North American and Latin American operations and subsidiaries of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, one of the world's 10 largest banks by assets. RBS Americas includes Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (operating as Citizens Bank, Charter One, RBS Card Services, RBS Asset Finance and RBS Lynk, a U.S. merchant transaction-processing subsidiary); RBS Global Banking & Markets Americas (including RBS Greenwich Capital); and Global Transaction Services Americas (including RBS's Cash Management, Commercial Cards, Payment Services, Trade Services and RBS Lynk). Alemany's positions make her the only woman responsible for one of the top 10 commercial banking companies in the U.S.
RBS Americas' U.S. operations have more than $119 billion in deposits and $681 billion in assets and employ more than 27,000 colleagues. The combined assets and deposits give RBS Americas the power and size of the fifth-largest commercial bank in the United States.
In October 2006, Alemany was ranked by U.S. Banker as the fourth-most-powerful woman banker in America.
She joined RBS America in June 2007 from Citigroup, where she had been CEO for Global Transaction Services (GTS), one of Citi's 12 publicly reported product lines. Citi's GTS offers cash management, trade services and finance, and securities and fund services capabilities to corporations, governments and financial institutions in 100 countries.
Under her leadership, GTS delivered superior financial performance, with net income growth of 26 percent from 2005 to 2006. She also was a member of the Citigroup Operating Committee, and Global Corporate and Investment Bank Operating Committee.
Ellen joined Citibank in 1987 and held various positions including Executive Vice President for the Commercial Business Group, which includes CitiCapital, the Commercial Markets Group and the Commercial Real Estate Group. CitiCapital, where she also served as President and CEO, was the second-largest bank-owned leasing company in North America.
Alemany also held a number of positions in Citigroup's Global Corporate Bank including Customer Group Executive of North American Markets, Global Industry Head of Media and Communications, and U.S. Industry Head of Consumer Products before being appointed Executive Vice President of Citibank and the Customer Group Executive for the Global Relationship Bank in Europe in 1999. Additional roles at Citigroup included Chairman and CEO for Citibank International plc, Citibank's European Bank; Country Corporate Officer for the United Kingdom; and member of the Board of Citibank, N.A.
She began her banking career at Chase Manhattan Bank in 1977, working in Operations, Structured Trade, and the Media and Electronics Department as a Senior Lender.
Ellen earned her M.B.A. with a specialization in finance from Fordham University in 1980. She is a member of the boards of directors of Citizens Financial Group, Inc., RBS Citizens, N.A., and the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation. Recently she was appointed the First District Representative on the Federal Advisory Council, directly consulting with and advising the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
An active member of the community, Alemany serves on the boards of the Center for Discovery and the March of Dimes New York Division.
Nick Balamaci
Head of Corporate Affairs
Simon Drake Brockman
Head of Global Banking and Markets
James Connolly
President, Citizens Financial Group
Norman DeLuca
Head of Global Transaction Services
John Fawcett
Chief Financial Officer
Russell Gibson
Branch Manager and Chief Administrative Officer
Sheldon Goldfarb
General Counsel
Neil Grassie
Head of Group Property
Bradford Kopp
Chief Executive Officer of ABN AMRO Business Unit North America
Peter Reynolds
Head of Regulatory Risk
Evelyn Tressitt
Head of Human Resources
John White
Director of Manufacturing
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