BARCLAYS Private Bank announced July 7 the appointments of Effie Datson as global head of family office and Melanie Aimer as global head of client experience.
In this newly created role, Datson will be responsible for building, managing and growing the global family office (GFO) client segment in partnership with the business and product heads and coordinating across all product areas to further define and enhance Barclays Private Bank’s GFO proposition and product set.
Datson has more than 25 years’ experience in financial services and joins from UBP where she was of head of hedge funds. Datson has also held senior roles at banks including Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB magna cum laude from Harvard College. She is founder and former board chair of 100 Women in Finance (formerly, 100 Women in Hedge Funds) in EMEA.
In her role as global head of client experience, Aimer will support Barclays Private Bank strategic growth ambitions by taking on end-to-end responsibility for client experience, including product propositions, marketing and distribution and digital face to market and client facing processes.
Aimer joins from BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNP AM) where she was the global head of client experience. Prior to this, Aimer worked within BNP Paribas Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB), where she was global head of digital for employees and as global head of client development, first within CIB’s fixed income division and later within global markets.
Datson and Aimer will both be based in London and will report to Jean-Christophe Gerard, interim CEO, Barclays Private Bank.
