Gavin leads the bank's Business franchise. He has spent in excess of 30 years following his passion in banking across the globe in various leadership roles. He joined the Virgin Group in November 2015. He has experience in leading large-scale teams in Retail (incl. Digital), Commercial, Corporate and Investment Banking. Gavin was previously Regional Head of Consumer Banking (Hong Kong, Taiwan and China), Standard Chartered based in China. Prior to this he spent almost 20 years with the Barclays / Absa Group, where he progressed through a number of senior roles before being appointed as Managing Director of Absa (Asia) Ltd and later Chief Executive of Absa's Retail Bank.