Profile – Bryan W. Carter
Born and educated in the UK, Bryan spent the last forty years of his forty five year banking career on international assignments, including the Bahamas, Nigeria, USA, and Hong Kong. During this period he experienced many facets of international banking with the last fifteen years focusing upon private banking.
In the course of his thirty one year career with JPM Chase he spent time in the Retail, Corporate and Institutional markets across four continents. During his ten years with JPM Chase in Asia, 1993-2003, he worked primarily with private clients variously fulfilling the roles of Regional Credit Executive, Senior Banker, Regional Business Manager and Deputy Area Executive. He has significant experience in structuring and marketing credit related transactions, including derivatives and other risk management products. During his last twenty years with JPM Chase he was part of a very small cadre of credit executives – notable successes included the management of Chase Manhattan’s loan loss books through the dark days of the early 90’s following the US Real Estate crisis, and the management of a US$2billion credit book (without loss) through the Asian financial crisis.
Bryan joined the RBS Group in 2003 following early retirement from JPMorgan Chase and worked with Coutts Bank in the roles of Hong Kong Chief Executive and head of sales teams in Hong Kong, Philippines, and South East Asia. In addition to leading teams of professional bankers he led a major initiative to vastly expand Coutts’ product range to include sophisticated derivative investment products.
From 2006 until 2008 he held a consultancy role with the Royal Bank of Scotland Group advising on the establishment of China’s first domestic private bank. In this role he was principally accountable for the design and development of a client proposition and its subsequent implementation, including inter alia people selection, product design and premises selection and refurbishment. The project has drawn upon his well established and acknowledged front-of-house skills.
Since 2008 he has been a visiting lecturer at Hong Kong University as well as Fudan and Tongji Universities in Shanghai where he lectures MBA students on wide variety of business related topics.
In his private life in Hong Kong he spends much of his time in the field of music where he is a church organist, the Chairman of the Board of the City Chamber Orchestra, and the Musical Director Emeritus of the internationally acclaimed Hong Kong Welsh Male Voice Choir.