Matt Hammerstein has been CEO of Barclays Bank UK since April 2019, covering retail banking, business banking, Barclaycard, savings, investments and wealth management.
Prior to becoming CEO, Matt was Head of Retail Lending covering both the secured and unsecured lending businesses.
Matt joined Barclays in 2004 as Director of Group Strategy, later progressing to become the Group Chief of Staff. Before Barclays, he was a Senior Management Consultant at Marakon Associates where he worked for 12 years in the financial services, consumer products and energy sectors within the Americas and Europe.