Board of Trustees
Ian Donald Cormack
Ian Cormack spent 30 years with Citibank where he held a number of senior positions including UK Country Head, Head of European Training, and Co-Head of the Global Financial Institutions Business. He has extensive PLC and private company boardroom experience. He is a former non-executive director on the board of NatWest Holdings Ltd, the RBS 'ring-fenced' bank which includes NatWest Bank plc and other entities.
Ian has a PPE degree from Oxford.
Chris Leslie
Chris spent the first 18 years of his career in banking with Citibank in London, Dublin, and New York. For the last 25 years Chris was in executive search and part of a small team that built Whitehead Mann into the leading executive search firm in the UK. At Whitehead Mann and then at The Zygos Partnership he focused almost exclusively on chairman and non-executive director appointments in financial services.
Chris holds an MA in French and Economics from St Andrews University.
December 2025
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