Stephen John Albutt

He was born in 1968. He graduated from Wesley College in Perth, Australia and studied Commerce (Bachelor of Commerce) at the University of Western Australia. He is a Chartered Accountant – Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales since 1994.

He began his career in 1989 at the international auditing and consulting firm Arthur Andersen in Perth. Later that year he moved to London to Andersen's Financial Markets Division, where he undertook audit and advisory work for various clients. In 1996 he was employed by investment bank BZW in London and Tokyo, as Director of Finance Global Projects before moving to J Henry Schroder in London in 1997 as Director in the Structured Products Group. In 2000, following the acquisition of J Henry Schroder by Citi, he joined Citigroup Global Markets in London in the Corporate Equity Derivatives Group, where he established the European margin loan business and the synthetic convertible business. In 2007 he was employed by Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, as Executive Director / Head of Structured Equity, establishing Morgan's Asia Investment Banking Structured Equity Group. Subsequently, in 2010, he joined Citigroup Global Markets in Hong Kong as Co-Head of Equity Structured Solutions, Asia Pacific, where he established Citi's structured equity franchise in Asia. He returned to England in 2014 to pursue personal interests.

He was appointed Member of the Board of Directors of Hellenic Bank on September 21, 2016 and Senior Independent Advisor on August 28, 2019. He is the Chairman of the Risk Management Committee and a Member of the Appointments / Internal Governance Committee of the Bank's Board of Directors.