Johannesburg, South Africa - February 22, 2013, Johannesburg, South Africa - Absa Group Limited (Absa) announced that Antony Jenkins has resigned from the boards of Absa Group and Absa Bank.
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Mr. Jenkins, who joined the Absa Boards four years ago, was appointed as Group Chief Executive of Barclays in August last year.
Mr. Jenkins served as Barclays' Chief Executive of Retail and Business Banking and joined the Barclays Executive Committee in November 2009. Prior to that he had been Chief Executive of Barclaycard since January 2006. He is the executive responsible for Diversity and Inclusion at Barclays and in February 2009, he became a Barclays appointed non-executive director of Absa, the South African banking group.
From 2008 to 2011, Mr. Jenkins was on the Board of Visa Europe Ltd. He is a member of the steering group for the Big Innovation Centre, an initiative of the Work Foundation and Lancaster University, and is closely involved with a number of charities as well as being a Patron for Government Employee Engagement.
Barclays is where Mr. Jenkins started his career in finance back in 1983, when he completed the Barclays Management Development Programme before going on to hold various roles in retail and corporate banking. He moved to Citigroup in 1989, working in both London and New York. He was educated at Oxford University and has a Masters in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He also has an MBA from the Cranfield Institute of Technology.
The company also announced that Patrick Clackson and Ashok Vaswani are joining the Absa Boards, effective March 1, 2013.
Mr. Clackson is the Chief Executive of Barclays Corporate and Investment Banking in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He joined Barclays Investment Bank in December 1998. He was previously the Chief Financial Officer for Sumitomo Bank?s London and Asian investment banking activities and, before that, a senior manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers. ■
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