Glen Moreno

Glen Moreno is the California-born financier who became Chairman of UK Financial Investments (UKFI) in Jan 2009, the body set up in late 2008 to manage the Government's £37bn shareholding in Britain's bailed-out banks.

Career

Moreno, spent 18 years at Citigroup in Europe and Asia moving to London as group executive for investment banking, responsible for corporate finance and trading operations.

From 1987 to 1991 Moreno was chief executive of the fund management group Fidelity International and was largely responsible for its rapid growth. He is also a senior independent director of Man Group, the FTSE100 financial services group.

In 2005 Moreno became chairman of Pearson, the media group which owns the FT.

For 9 years he was also associated with Liechtenstein Global Trust, a private bank. LGT, owned by the Liechtenstein royal family, became the subject of scandal in 2008 over allegations that it aided tax evasion among clients. Moreno quit as a trustee in April 08, two months after it was reported that financial details of thousands of clients had been passed to German authorities.