Bruce Van Saun joined our Board as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in October 2013. From October 2009 through October 2013, Mr. Van Saun served as the RBS Group Finance Director and was a member of its board of directors. From 1997 to 2008, Mr. Van Saun held a number of senior positions with Bank of New York and later Bank of New York Mellon, including Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer. Earlier in his career, he held senior positions with Deutsche Bank, Wasserstein Perella Group and Kidder Peabody Co. In all, Mr. Van Saun has more than 30 years of financial services experience.
Mr. Van Saun has also served on the boards of directors of our subsidiaries Citizens Bank, N.A. ("CBNA") and Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania ("CBPA") since October 2013 and served (from October 2009 to September 2013) as a director on the boards of our affiliates, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc and National Westminster Bank Plc. In addition, Mr. Van Saun has served as a director on the franchise board of Lloyd's of London since September 2012 and is a member of The Clearing House supervisory board. He has previously served on a number of boards in both the United Kingdom and the United States, including the boards of Direct Line Insurance Group plc (from April 2012 to October 2013), WorldPay (Ship Midco Limited) (from July 2011 to September 2013), ConvergEx Inc. (from May 2007 to October 2013), AbitibiBowater (Resolute Forest Products Inc.) (from June 2005 to April 2008) and Stride Rite Corporation (from June 1999 to December 2005). Mr. Van Saun received a B.S. in Business Administration from Bucknell University in 1979 and an M.B.A. in Finance and General Management from the University of North Carolina in 1983.
