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词条 Stephen Hester
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  1. Early life

  2. Career

     Royal Bank of Scotland  RSA Insurance 

  3. Personal life

  4. References

  5. External links

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|name = Stephen Hester
|image = File:Stephen Hester FT Summer Party 2014.jpg
|image_size = 200px
|caption = Hester in 2014
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1960|12|14}}
|birth_place = Yorkshire, England[1]
|education = Easingwold School
|alma_mater = Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University
|title = CEO, RSA Insurance Group
|nationality = British
|occupation = Businessman
|years_active = 1982–present
|salary = GBP £4 million (total compensation)[2][3]
|spouse = {{marriage|Barbara Abt|1991}}
{{marriage|Suzy Neubert|2012}}
|children = 2 (with Abt)
}}Stephen A. M. Hester (born 14 December 1960) is an English businessman and former banker, the chief executive officer (CEO) of RSA Insurance Group and former CEO of the RBS Group.[4]

Early life

Hester is the eldest son of Ronald, a chemistry professor at the University of York, and Dr Bridget Hester, a psychotherapist. He grew up 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.[4]

Career

Hester began his career in 1982 with Credit Suisse, where he started as the chairman's assistant.[4] In 1996 he was appointed to the executive board. Hester held the position of chief financial officer and Head of Support Division, until May 2000. From May 2000 to September 2001, he was Head of the Fixed Income Division.

In May 2002, he joined Abbey National as Finance Director. He then went on to become chief operating officer, a position he held until November 2004, when he was appointed Chief Executive of British Land. In early 2007, eight months before British Land and other REITs were caught in the commercial property slump, he said: "I don't believe we are about to see a market decline, but the period of sharp growth is over."[5]

Hester was appointed non-executive deputy chairman of the newly nationalised Northern Rock by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling in March 2008,[6] a role which he resigned from in September 2008 to take a non-executive position on the board of Royal Bank of Scotland.[7]

Royal Bank of Scotland

In November 2008, he left British Land and replaced Fred Goodwin as Chief Executive of the RBS Group. Hester was paid an annual salary of £1.1million by RBS.[8] Alongside this, he took home £1.5m in bonus and pension payments in 2010.[9] 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.[10] Later in 2012, in June, he declined his bonus for the following year after RBS' computer problems.[11]

In December 2009, the board of RBS, in which the British government had an 84% stake, threatened to resign unless they were permitted to pay bonuses of £1.5bn to staff in its investment arm.[12] The matter received heavy criticism because it followed a £50bn taxpayer bailout of the banking sector.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}} The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, said he would not be "held to ransom".[13]

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. He had been brought in to help restructure the bailed-out bank in 2008, at the beginning of the global financial crisis. His leaving package would be in excess of £1.6m.[14]

RSA Insurance

On 4 February 2014, Hester joined RSA Insurance Group as CEO, replacing Simon Lee. Hester will be paid an annual salary of £950,000, less than the £1.2m a year he earned at RBS. However, he will be granted an initial award under RSA's long-term incentive plan of £2.85m, or 300% of salary, and will be eligible for an annual bonus of 160% of his salary, or £1.52m.[15]

Personal life

Hester married Canadian-born Barbara Abt in 1991, and they had two children together.[16][17] They met when both were working for Credit Suisse.[16][17] They separated in 2010.[16][18]

In September 2012, Hester married Suzy Neubert, a former banker and wealth manager for the fund manager JO Hambro, and it was a second marriage for both of them.[19][20]

Hester bought the 350-acre Broughton Grange estate in Oxfordshire in 1992.[16] One of Hester's passions is said to be the garden of Broughton Grange and development of its arboretum, which was designed by landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith and includes pleached limes, formal beds and five of the first Australian Wollemi pines to be brought into the UK.[4]

Hester is a trustee of the Foundation and Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.[21][22][23]

Hester has in the past donated to the Conservative Party.[24]

Hester enjoys tennis, running and shooting, as well as skiing, for which he owns a chalet in Verbier, Switzerland. Hester also enjoys horse riding, and his first wife is a master of fox hounds in Warwickshire. He is quoted as having said: "It’s very important to keep our marriage together that I do the same as she does."[25]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/diary/business-events-1-5777019|title=Business Events|author=|date=|website=yorkshirepost.co.uk|accessdate=6 April 2018}}
2. ^{{cite news|last1=Sunderland|first1=Ruth|title=Ex-RBS boss Stephen Hester set for £4m package as he takes the helm at RSA|url=http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2551680/Stephen-Hester-appointed-RSA-chief-nets-annual-salary-1m.html|accessdate=26 April 2015|work=Thisismoney|date=4 February 2014}}
3. ^{{cite news |first=Jill |last=Treanor |authorlink= |title=RBS chief's £11.1m salary deal revealed |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/nov/05/rbs-simon-hester-banking-salary |work=The Guardian |publisher=Guardian Media Group |date=5 November 2008 |accessdate=8 August 2009 | location=London}}
4. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/article1290133.ece|title=Towering task for British Land boss|author=Davidson, Andrew|publisher=The Sunday Times|date=7 January 2007|accessdate=13 October 2008 | location=London}}
5. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/oct/13/rbs-stephen-hester|title=Profile: Stephen Hester|publisher=The Guardian|date=13 October 2008|accessdate=13 October 2008|location=London}}
6. ^{{cite news|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/Internal_ReutersCoUkService_12/idUKNOA84083920080218|title= Stephen Hester appointed to Northern Rock board|publisher=Reuters|date=18 February 2008|accessdate=13 October 2008}}
7. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/3185254/Stephen-Hester-moves-back-to-banking-as-new-head-of-RBS.html|title=Stephen Hester moves back to banking as new head of RBS|publisher=The Telegraph|date=13 October 2008|accessdate=13 October 2008|location=London|first=Jonathan|last=Russell}}
8. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/feb/11/rbs-libor-mathematical-impossibility-john-hourican | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Jill | last=Treanor | title=RBS chairman defends Stephen Hester's 'modest' pay | date=11 February 2013}}
9. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367276/Taxpayer-backed-RBS-paid-1m-323-staff.html|publisher=dailymail.co.uk|title= 100 RBS bankers on more than £1m: Fury over giant payday at bank YOU own | location=London|first=Becky|last=Barrow|date=18 March 2011}}
10. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16783571|publisher=bbc.co.uk|title= RBS boss Stephen Hester rejects £4m bonus |first=Robert|last=Peston|date=30 January 2012 |accessdate= 31 January 2012 | location=London}}
11. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jun/29/rbs-stephen-hester-bonus-computer|publisher=The Guardian|title=RBS chief Stephen Hester gives up bonus over computer meltdown|first=Jill|last=Treanor|date=29 June 2012|accessdate=29 June 2012|location=London}}
12. ^{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8392147.stm | work=BBC News | title=RBS board could quit over bonuses | date=3 December 2009 | accessdate=24 May 2010}}
13. ^{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8402769.stm | work=BBC News | title=Darling raises National Insurance | date=9 December 2009 | accessdate=24 May 2010}}
14. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jun/12/rbs-ceo-stephen-hester-quits | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Jill | last=Treanor | title=RBS chief executive Stephen Hester quits with £1.6m-plus payoff | date=12 June 2013}}
15. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/insurance/10617419/Former-RBS-chief-Stephen-Hester-joins-RSA-as-CEO.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Andrew | last=Trotman | title=Former RBS chief Stephen Hester joins RSA as CEO | date=4 February 2014}}
16. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/stephen-hester-the-first-name-on-every-headhunters-hitlist-10477774.html|title=Stephen Hester: the first name on every headhunter's hitlist|author=|date=29 August 2015|website=independent.co.uk|accessdate=6 April 2018}}
17. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16781550|title=Profile: RBS boss Stephen Hester|author=|date=6 April 2018|publisher=|accessdate=6 April 2018|via=www.bbc.co.uk}}
18. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/rbs-boss-splits-with-wife-of-20-1060914|title=RBS boss splits with wife of 20 years as pressure of saving bank takes toll|first=|last=Dailyrecord.co.uk|date=4 June 2010|website=dailyrecord.co.uk|accessdate=6 April 2018}}
19. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/prufrock-for-hester-this-is-cupids-bonus-8zsngz7p0wt|title=Prufrock: For Hester, this is Cupid’s bonus|first=Kate|last=Walsh|date=4 March 2012|publisher=|accessdate=6 April 2018|via=www.thetimes.co.uk}}
20. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cityam.com/article/impossible-job-was-too-hard-hester-finish|title=Impossible job was too hard for Hester to finish|first=Elizabeth|last=Fournier|date=13 June 2013|website=cityam.com|accessdate=6 April 2018}}
21. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.efinancialnews.com/content/2452150751|title=Profile: Stephen Hester|publisher=efinancialnews.com|date=13 October 2008|accessdate=13 October 2008}}
22. ^{{cite web|title=Support Kew – Kew Foundation Board of Trustees |url=http://www.kew.org/support-kew/about-kew-foundation/board-of-trustees/ |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |accessdate=24 July 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106040434/http://www.kew.org/support-kew/about-kew-foundation/board-of-trustees/ |archivedate=6 January 2014 }}
23. ^{{cite news|last=Jenkins|first=Patrick|title=Lunch with the FT: Stephen Hester|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/6f05854c-ce98-11e2-8e16-00144feab7de.html|accessdate=24 July 2013|newspaper=Financial Times|date=7 June 2013}}
24. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/profile-stephen-hester-1-1364082|title=Profile: Stephen Hester|author=|date=|website=scotsman.com|accessdate=6 April 2018}}
25. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/6569875/Hunting-ban-comes-into-force-for-Labours-banker-Stephen-Hester.html|title=Hunting ban comes into force for Labour's banker Stephen Hester|first=Richard|last=Eden|date=14 November 2009|publisher=|accessdate=6 April 2018|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}

External links

  • Broughton Grange website
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