Our People

Stuart Foster

Stuart Foster was recently appointed as Managing Director of Financial Institutions at NatWest and is a member of the Commercial & Institutional Executive Committee.  Stuart will bring all institutional customers across NatWest Group into one franchise to deliver greater value to all stakeholders. Heis a member of the Board, Risk and Audit committee, and acts as a UK Bank Shareholder representative for Big Society Capital.

James Waud

James Waud is the Managing Director, Head of Banks & Transaction Services. James has been at NatWest for seven years, having originally joined as Global Head of Subsidiary Banking. James previously spent 18 years at J.P. Morgan, initially through the Global Management Training Programme in New York, followed by two years in Paris covering French Corporate clients. He then returned to London and assumed a variety of sales leadership roles including running UK Corporate, US and Asia Multinational Coverage teams. James's last role at J.P. Morgan was as Corporate Sales Executive, Northern Europe.

Monika Tarr

Monika Tarr leads our Global Banks team, based in the UK serving our Bank clients outside of Europe. Monika previously headed up Emerging Markets and Southern Europe following her role in Global Transaction Banking Sales for Latin American banks. Monika has previously held roles as a Director in Consulting for Banks at Deloitte, Funding at RBS Treasury and in Origination and Syndicate for Frequent Borrowers and Financial institutions Debt Capital Markets.

Adam Hanke

Adam Hanke leads the UK, Europe and Government Banking team Adam has been with NatWest for 8 years, and in that time has held a number of leadership roles, with a focus on deepening existing relationships as well as identifying and developing new business with financial institutions. He prides himself in the open and collaborative approach taken by his teams, which focuses on building lasting partnerships, supporting digitisation and innovation strategies, as well as providing strategic support for entering new markets. 

Ritu Sehgal

Ritu leads Natwest Transaction Services sales team with a remit to drive business development strategy and PnL for Corporates and Financial Institutions across payments product suite including digital solutions, cash management and cards.  Before joining NatWest in April 2022, she had a stint at a cross border payments start up as their Chief Commercial Officer leading the UK strategy and launch. Prior to that Ritu led the Financial Institutions Payments Sales team at Lloyds Bank where she spent over 10 years across FI coverage and Transaction Banking.

Alec Brick

Alec is a Director in the NatWest Transaction Services sales team supporting Correspondent Banks and Indirect Access clients in providing digital payment solutions. Alec has directly supported our FI clients for the last 22 years, having more than 40 years experience in NatWest Group across numerous operational and front line roles. 

Scott Christie

Scott is a Director and the Banks relationship lead for Financial Institutions in Americas, Middle East & Africa. He has been in the FI market almost seven years and currently works across five continents to support his global portfolio. Responsible for correspondent banking and delivering one bank coverage by navigating the NatWest group to provide solutions for his clients. 

Paul Feeney

Paul is a Director in the Trade and Working Capital Origination team focusing on the banks biggest corporate clients.  Having joined the Bank 27 years ago he has covered a number of different sectors over the years and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to sectors ranging from Commodities, Consumer/Retail, Telecoms and Defence.  

Martin Marshall

Martin Marshall is the Director of Asia-Pacific Banks, Banks Coverage within the Corporates and Institutions division of NatWest Bank and has been with the Bank for 35 years. Martin joined NatWest working at the Head Office which was also the largest branch of the Bank undertaking a variety of roles for several years before focusing on the Bank’s Financial Institutions client franchise as a relationship manager. 

Graham Woodcock

Graham has been with the NatWest Group for 36 years and for many years has been working within the Banks and Transaction Services Team focusing on our Correspondent Banking relations with banks and FI’s, within a geographic portfolio including Central, Eastern & Southern Europe, Germany, Austria & Switzerland, Israel & Turkey.  As such, he has a detailed and in-depth knowledge of the Correspondent and Agency Banking product suite and business lines.

Bradley Freeman

Bradley is a Relationship Manager supporting Financial Institutions across the UK & Europe. Bradley works in collaboration with our clients to build upon the great partnership. Bradley has a wealth of experience from a product, industry, and service perspective. Bradley joined the NWG as a graduate in 2011. Prior to his role as a Relationship Manager, Bradley operated as a Client Service Manager and Implementation Manager within NatWest Bank, and as a Project Manager for NatWest Markets. In this capacity he successfully delivered continuous customer improvement initiatives, product implementations and regulatory change programmes.

Daniel Eade

Daniel is responsible for managing NatWest’s relationships with its US bank clients. Daniel’s career of ten years with NatWest has been focused on delivering NatWest’s Transaction Services capabilities to its clients. Daniel initially served NatWest’s corporate clients through roles in London, Frankfurt, Paris and Dubai, and now since Q1 2022 Daniel has transferred these experiences to serve our US FI clients.

Simon Eacott 

Simon has extensive experience in the Payments industry, with expertise in strategic change programmes, cash management sales, operations and product management. As Head of Product Development & Innovation Simon leads the Payments customer centric Innovation programme together with product / scheme responsibilities.  Prior to this role Simon was Head of Design and Franchise Delivery, leading teams to deliver transformational change to meet alternative State Aid remedies with the European Commission and Her Majesty’s Treasury following the decision to stand down the divestment of Williams & Glyn. 

Jessica Richards 

At NatWest, Jessica is responsible for strategy as well as regulatory, industry and external engagement across the payments market. Her team is the focal point for the Bank’s payments strategy and strategic insights, as well engagement across the industry where NatWest plays a leading role, processing 1 in 4 payments in the UK. She sits on a number of industry Boards on behalf of NatWest. Jessica has spent the last ten years at the heart of the payments industry. As a Director at Payments UK and subsequently UK Finance, she was responsible for stakeholder engagement across the payments and wider banking industry.

Lee Mcnabb

Lee leads Payment Strategy and Research for NatWest Payments. Assessing the landscape, understanding the threats and opportunities, setting the go forward direction, supporting customers across multiple brands and doing so in collaboration with internal and external partners.  With knowledge and experience working across all types of payments, he has also been a leading voice internally and externally in the Digital Currency space, sitting on multiple industry groups and representing NatWest at industry events. He also has extensive banking experience in product / P&L management, risk, policy setting and strategy. 

Lee joined NatWest in 2018 after 13 years at the Co-operative Bank where he held senior leadership roles within product and payments.  Latterly owning the payment strategy together with responsibility for regulatory change including PSD2 and key payment scheme relationships.

Owen Lawrence

Appointed Head of Propositions and Customer Journeys for the Commercial Bank at Natwest in October 2020, Owen is responsible for the leadership and strategic direction of the Bank’s customer facing propositions for business and corporate clients. Owen joined Natwest in 2001 and has held a variety of senior leadership positions in Commercial and Business Banking. He has extensive experience in Business Leadership, Strategic planning, Sales Management and running large scale business projects. He is passionate about the Bank’s purpose and social responsibilities, with his teams responsible for the design of propositions and partnerships to support the Bank’s Enterprise, Inclusion and Climate priorities.

Gaurav Gaur

Gaurav is a Commercial Banker with international experience and reputation for successfully delivering digital transformation in roles spanning client management, product and credit risk. He has been with Natwest for over 12 years and heads up the Commercial Payment Product teams responsible for ongoing development and management of digital payment products for a customer base spanning from SME to Corporates. He has a special interest in commercialisation opportunities on the back of ISO and NPA changes. 

Mirka Skrzypczak

Mirka is an MD at NatWest managing Trade & Working Capital products covering: Trade Services, Funded Trade, Supply Chain Finance, Invoice Finance, Asset Based Lending and Overdrafts.

She is an experienced product head with expertise in this sphere spanning more than a decade. Mirka has also previously worked in Frontline Roles i.e. deal origination as well as strategy. She is a passionate innovator and closely follows the latest technical developments and their impact on banking industry. She holds Masters degree from the University of Economics Poznan, Poland.

Paula Thistleton

Paula Thistleton is the Head of Network Management for the NatWest Group. Her team manage the external bank relationships for cash, securities and collateral management services. Paula has been with NatWest for twelve years. Prior to this she lived in Dubai and worked as a Product Manager within the Securities Services division of Standard Chartered Bank. She started her Network Management career with ABN Amro after gaining wider banking experience through a variety of roles at UBS, Deutsche and Credit Suisse.

Sophie Doherty

Sophie is a key member of the Agent Relationship Management team, where she is responsible for managing Cash and Securities Agent Bank relationships in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Sophie joined Network Management in 2016 as a member of the Agent Bank Oversight & Monitoring team and turned her focus to leading the Regulatory Control team for the purpose of projects such as the Independent Commission on Banking Regulation and Brexit planning, before commencing her current role as an Agent Relationship Manager in 2019.

Ian Povey

Ian is currently the CIO Payments Services & Technology for the NatWest Banking Group. Accountable for the run, change and continuous availability of payments as a systemically critical participant in the industry. Ian is focused on transformation and modernisation of the technology estate, investing in team culture and adoption of new ways of working. While collaborating with the business to continuously improve each customer journey. Ian joined the Board of Directors of SWIFT in 2022 and serves on the Board of Archa Ltd, an Australian based fintech, and the Board and Trustee of Charities Trust in the UK. 

Jonathon Keir 

Jonny Keir is an Edinburgh-based Technology Professional, working for NatWest as a Tower Lead in Payments. As part of this role, Jonny is responsible for the change and run of a large number of crucial bank systems. Jonny has a strong background in the leadership of large-scale Technology transformation and regulatory change, built through a varied career providing Advisory and Delivery Services to Financial Services clients. Jonny continues to be a passionate advocate of education, social mobility and coaching having started his career a school teacher in South London.

Mridula Ranjan

Mridula Ranjan joined as the International and Complex delivery tower for Natwest in 2021. In her role , Mridula is responsible for looking after run and change of crirical systems involved in international and complex payment processing. She is actively involved in delivering transformation across the SWIFT estate and for schemes such as SEPA, CHAPS, Target 2 and CBPR+ under ISO20022 . Mridula has led various payments transformations initiatives at HSBC, Barclays and Bank of Tokyo and has extensive experience across the industry being involved in Berlin group and national regulator groups.  

Charlotte Jonesman

Charlotte is a Client Service Manager supporting Financial Institutions globally. Charlotte works in collaboration with our customers to optimise Operations, support industry change and ensure excellent service. Charlotte has a wealth of experience from a product, industry, and service perspective having worked for the NWG since 2011.

Will Taylor

William is a Client Service Manager supporting Financial Institutions globally. William works in collaboration with our customers to optimise Operations, support industry change and ensure excellent service. William has a wealth of experience from a product, industry, and service perspective having worked for the NWG since 2014 and supported a variety of customer types.

Daniel Globerson 

Dan is the Head of Bank of APIs at NatWest. He is leading our regulatory commitments in the United Kingdom and Europe, driving a culture of API enablement, and collaborating across the industry in establishing standards. Dan provides regulatory, competitive, and strategic insight bankwide as well as with customers and partners. Prior to this role, Dan drove the formation of Risk Solutions, leading risk and capital technology and change activities focused on improved lending capabilities, adherence with complex regulation, and advanced data insights. He has over 28 years’ experience at the crossroads of banking and technology while being associated with some of the world’s leading financial institutions in the United States, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. 

Lucy Grimstead

Lucy Grimstead has been with the bank for over 18 years, and is the Head of UK Corporate and Private Funds FX. She leads a large team that supports the diverse risk management needs of over 5,000 corporate and sponsor clients, and has been instrumental in helping develop and execute solutions for the bank’s clients during a career that has seen profound market change, from crisis era volatility through to the rise of digital and ESG-linked transactions. During her time in the team, Greenwich voted the NatWest Corporate FX team No.1 for Service Quality 9 years in a row, and Risk Solutions House of the Year in 2020.

Jake Hallam 

Jake works in NatWest’s Climate & ESG Capital Markets team to support financial institutions customers across NatWest Group on a number of different aspects within the sustainable finance space including the structuring and execution of sustainable finance transactions, developing sustainable finance strategies, sustainability reporting & investor engagement.