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RBS Americas Leadership Team


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. She also is a member of RBS's Group Executive Management Committee, the RBS Group's 16-member executive leadership team.

RBS Americas includes Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (operating as Citizens Bank, Charter One, RBS Card Services, RBS Asset Finance and RBS WorldPay, 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 and Trade Services).

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 size and strength 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 Americas in June 2007 from Citigroup, where she had been CEO for Global Transaction Services (GTS), one of Citi's 12 publicly reported product lines.

Ellen joined Citibank in 1987 and held various progressive positions. They included Executive Vice President for the Commercial Business Group, President and CEO of CitiCapital and Executive Vice President and Customer Group Executive for the Global Relationship Bank in Europe.

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.

Nick Balamaci
Head of Corporate Affairs

David Bowerman
Director of Manufacturing

Symon Drake Brockman
Head of Global Banking and Markets

James Connolly
President, Citizens Financial Group

Jay Cook
Head of Risk Optimization, Measurement & Reporting

Norman DeLuca
Head of Global Transaction Services

John Fawcett
Chief Financial Officer

Russell Gibson
Branch Manager and Chief Administrative Officer

Sheldon Goldfarb
General Counsel

Bradford Kopp
Chief Executive Officer of ABN AMRO Business Unit North America

Grant Lyall
Head of Operational Risk

Peter Reynolds
Head of Regulatory Risk

Evelyn Tressitt
Head of Human Resources


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