Paul Horner
Chairman
Paul was born in 1962. He was first elected as a Director at a shareholders’ meeting on the 8th of August 2019, and is a non-executive director. He is not a shareholder in Arion Bank and is an independent candidate. Paul is Chairman of the Board and member of the Board Risk Committee, the Board Audit Committee, the Board Remuneration Committee and the Board Technology Committee.
Paul graduated with M.A. Honours in music from the University of Oxford in 1983 and is an associate of the UK Chartered Institute of Bankers. Paul has extensive experience of risk and general management in retail, commercial, investment and private banking, gained across various international markets. Paul held various executive and risk management roles at Barclays PLC between 1988 and 2003. In 2003 Paul joined The Westminster Bank (formerly the Royal Bank of Scotland Group) Group, where he served as an executive and general manager in various senior roles. From 2012 to 2016, Paul was cheif risk officer of Coutts & Co Ltd, the International Private Banking arm og National Westminster Group. and became CEO of that bank from 2016 to 2017. In 2018 Paul was chief risk officer of Ulster Bank DAC, Dublin, and a non-executive director at Coutts & Co Ltd. in Zurich from 2018-2021.
Today Paul serves on the board of AIB (UK) P.L.C., chairs its risk committee and is member of its audit committee. He also serves on the Board of LHV (UK) Ltd. and chairs its risk committee, as well as sitting as a member of its audit, remuneration and nomination committees. In addition, he serves on the Board of the UK subsidiary of The National Bank of Kuwait International, chairs its Risk Committee and sits on its Audit Committee.
