Nicholas Jordan

Senior Advisor, Russia & CIS at KingsRock Advisors

Nicholas Jordan is an Independent non-executive Director of Rusal. Mr. Jordan was appointed as a member of the Board with effect from 2019. Mr. Jordan has served as a member of the board of directors of En+ since 2019 as an independent director.

Mr. Jordan has more than 30 years’ experience in senior positions in leading global financial institutions.

He was executive chairman of Big Un Limited in 2018 and served as its non-executive chairman in 2018. He stepped up to executive chairman to help restructuring the business given a series of reporting and accounting issues which eventually led to the company being placed in administration.

Previously, he served as chairman of supervisory board at 4finance Group S.A. (part of the Finstar Group) having earlier been the chief executive officer at Finstar Financial Group (another subsidiary) from 2015 to 2017.

Earlier, he was the co-chief executive officer of Goldman Russia at Goldman Sachs until 2015. Prior to this, he served as the chief executive officer of Russia & the Commonwealth of Independent States at UBS Group AG from June 2010. Before this, he worked briefly for Lehman Brothers and Nomura focused on emerging markets.

He worked for more than 10 years with Deutsche Bank eventually becoming Vice Chairman and Head of Emerging Markets. Prior to that, Mr. Jordan was the CEO of Morgan Grenfell Securities Russia, responsible for all securities trading, capital markets and investment banking.

He joined Manufacturers Hanover in 1985 and developed an international career in the firm that was first acquired by Chemical Bank. He then moved to London where he became the Vice President in the London office and Head of the Emerging Markets Fixed Income Trading. Shortly after the firm was acquired by Chase, he left to join Deutsche Bank.

Mr. Jordan started his banking career in the Management Training Program at Bank of New York.

Mr. Jordan graduated from Boston University with a BA in political science.


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  • Senior Advisor, Russia & CIS

    Current role