Keith Smithson
Biography
Keith is a highly experienced leader in Finance, Treasury and Transformation for large complex organisations operating in regulated environments.
After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG, Keith spent 35 years in Banking and Financial Services, primarily in Chief Financial Officer and Treasury roles within HSBC and Barclays. In his career as a CFO, he worked across asset finance and leasing, retail banking, insurance, wealth management, corporate banking and capital markets businesses in the UK and internationally.
Most recently Keith was Chief Financial Officer and a Board Director of Barclays Europe. He also previously served as a Non-Executive Director of Big Society Capital Limited, a regulated provider of social investment capital in the UK.
Non-Executive Director