Peter Vickery is an accomplished senior executive with a wealth of experience in driving business growth across diverse markets, particularly in financial services and operations. His impressive career has taken him across various countries, including the UK, USA, South Africa, Botswana, and the UAE. Peter’s track record showcases his ability to achieve groundbreaking results, lead large-scale ventures, and build high-performing teams that consistently exceed objectives in competitive environments.
Having started his career in banking at a remarkably young age of 16, Peter’s journey has been marked by notable milestones. By the age of 26, he became the youngest Director at Barclays UK, overseeing a vast workforce of 4,000 employees and 400 branches. Throughout his career, Peter has demonstrated his strategic acumen and leadership abilities, driving significant transformations and delivering exceptional outcomes.
Among his key achievements, Peter successfully transformed the service quality of the largest bank in the continent, resulting in a remarkable increase in market share and employee engagement. In the UK, he achieved substantial income growth over five years by fostering a sustainable sales culture and implementing robust processes and systems. Peter’s leadership has also been instrumental in exceeding revenue targets, expanding market share, and driving profit growth across multiple regions, including managing operations in nine African countries.
With a unique blend of professional expertise and academic accomplishments, including executive programs at Cambridge University and Harvard Business School, Peter Vickery stands out as a visionary leader with a proven track record of success in the global financial landscape.
About FAB
FAB, the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest financial institutions offers a an extensive range of tailor-made solutions, and products and services, to provide a customised banking experience. Through its strategic offerings, it looks to meet the banking needs of customers across the world via its market-leading Corporate and Investment Banking and Personal Banking franchises.
Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, in Khalifa Business Park, the bank’s international network spans over 19 countries, across the world, providing the global relationships, expertise and financial strength to support local, regional and international businesses seeking to do business at home and abroad. In line with its commitment to put customers first, to Grow Stronger, FAB will continually invest in people and technology to create the most customer-friendly banking experience and will support the growth ambitions of its stakeholders across the global network in which the bank operates.
To empower its customers and clients to Grow Stronger, FAB is initiating a powerful movement, which goes beyond banking. The Grow Stronger movement represents the bank’s promise to support its stakeholders’ goals and growth ambitions, providing ideas, tools and expertise to help them become stronger, today and in the future. Through a strong, diversified balance sheet, leading efficiency and a solid corporate governance structure in place, FAB is set to drive growth forward[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]