Education
University of Durham.
University of Durham.
The bank was subsequently nationalised
The son of a music and drama teacher, he attended Sedbergh School and Durham University, where he read Mathematics and Economics. He joined Northern Rock in October 1983 as a graduate trainee, becoming General Manager in 1993, joining the Board of Directors in 1996 and being appointed Chief Executive in 2001 at the age of 39 and remained in this position till he left the bank in December 2007. In January 2009 Guardian City editor Julia Finch identified him as one of twenty five people who were at the heart of the financial meltdown.
