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Stephen Hester was born on 14 December, 1960 in Yorkshire, England, is a British banker (born 1960). Discover Stephen Hester's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

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Occupation Businessman
Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 14 December 1960
Birthday 14 December
Birthplace Yorkshire, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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His wife is Barbara Abt (m. 1991-2010) Suzy Neubert (m. 2012)

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Stephen Hester Net Worth

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1960

Sir Stephen Alan Michael Hester (born 14 December 1960) is an international businessman and former banker.

He is Chairman of Nordea Bank and easyJet, and former chief executive officer (CEO) of RSA Insurance Group, of the RBS Group and of British Land.

Hester is the eldest son of Ronald, a chemistry professor at the University of York, and Dr Bridget Hester, a psychotherapist.

He was born in Ithaca, NY, USA but grew up primarily in the village of Crayke in North Yorkshire.

He was educated at Easingwold School in North Yorkshire, a rural comprehensive school, and at Oxford where he studied at Lady Margaret Hall, and after chairing the Tory Reform Group, graduated with a first class honours degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

Hester has had an extensive business career including holding the Chief Executive position at three FTSE 100 companies over a 17 year period.

1982

He began his career in 1982 with investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston, where he started in corporate finance and then served a year as the chairman's assistant.

1987

He was appointed a Director in 1987 and a Managing Director in 1988 aged 27.

1996

Following stints as co-head European M&A and Investment Banking, in 1996 he was appointed to the Executive Board.

2000

Hester held the position of Chief Financial Officer and Head of Support Division, until May 2000.

From May 2000 to September 2001, he was Global Head of the Fixed Income Division.

2002

In May 2002, he joined Abbey National as Finance Director.

The bank had significant financial problems stemming from its wholesale and life insurance activities.

As part of its significant restructuring, he was given additional responsibilities as Chief Operating Officer for the wholesale and insurance arms of the bank as well as its support functions.

2004

The restructuring was successful and in 2004 the bank was sold at a significant gain to shareholders to Santander.

In November 2004, Hester was appointed Chief Executive of the FTSE 100 property company British Land succeeding Sir John Ritblat the company’s founder.

During Hester’s tenure the company was reshaped, dividends increased 125% and EPS doubled.

2008

Hester was appointed non-executive deputy chairman of the newly nationalised Northern Rock by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling in March 2008, a role which he resigned from in September 2008 to take a non-executive position on the board of Royal Bank of Scotland.

In October 2008, RBS, then the biggest bank in the world by assets, fell victim to the global financial crisis and needed recapitalisation by the UK Government.

As part of that change, Hester was asked to leave British Land and replace Fred Goodwin as Chief Executive of the RBS Group.

The ensuing five years were ones of intense restructuring of RBS.

Assets were reduced by some £720 billion and costs by c£4.2 billion.

The task had been likened to defusing a financial bomb.

In addition to restoring financial health the share price of RBS which had troughed at 90p equivalent, rose to 330p by the time he left the bank.

Hester was paid an annual salary of £1.1 million by RBS.

2012

In 2012 he was offered a bonus of just under £1 million, but following some considerable pressure from politicians and the public, he declined the bonus.

Later in 2012, in June, he declined his bonus for the following year after RBS's computer problems.

2013

On 12 June 2013 Royal Bank of Scotland announced that Hester would be stepping down as CEO in December 2013, after five years with the bank.

2014

On 4 February 2014, Hester joined RSA Insurance Group, the FTSE100 insurer, as CEO.

The company was also experiencing a financial crisis and Hester led significant restructuring efforts, streamlining and focusing the business, raising £750 million in a rights issue and changing management whilst cutting costs.

The insurer responded well to these changes with substantial increases in earnings, dividends and share price.

The Company accepted an all cash bid worth £7.2 bn in June 2021 from Intact of Canada and Tryg of Denmark.

The 52% premium was a record for the sector.

2016

In June 2016 Hester was also appointed to the Board of Centrica the FTSE 100 energy Group as Senior Independent Director which he stepped down from in June 2022.

Hester joined the Board of easyJet, the leading European airline, on 1st September 2021 becoming Chairman on 1st December 2021.

He also was appointed Lead Independent Director of Kyndryl in November 2021.

Kyndryl is a New York based and listed company spun off from IBM.

It is the largest IT infrastructure provider globally.

On 1st April 2022 Hester joined the Board of Nordea Bank abp as Vice Chairman, and became Chairman on 1st October 2022.

Nordea is the largest bank in the Nordics and the 5th largest European bank by value.