Robin Francis Budenberg

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(born 1959) is a British Corporate Adviser. He was appointed non-executive Director of

Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Banking Group is a British financial institution formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009. It is one of the UK's largest financial services organisations, with 30 million customers and 65,000 employees. Lloyds Bank w ...

on 1 October 2020 and became Chairman on 4 January 2021 and was appointed Chairman of

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on 9 August 2016.

Early life

Budenberg grew up in Cheshire, where his family owned

Budenberg Gauge Company The Budenberg Gauge Company was founded in 1918. The original parent company was Schäffer & Budenberg founded in 1850 by and {{Interlanguage link multi, Christian Friedrich Budenberg, de in Prussia. The Budenberg Gauge Company is now based in ...

, a maker of pressure gauges and accessories established in

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in 1854. Budenberg holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the

University of Exeter The University of Exeter is a public university , public research university in Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of Min ...

Career

Budenberg started his career with

Price Waterhouse PricewaterhouseCoopers is an international professional services brand of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand. It is the second-largest professional services network in the world and is considered one of the Big Four accounting ...

where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant and joined

SG Warburg S. G. Warburg & Co. was a London-based investment bank. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The firm was acquired by the Swiss Bank Corporation in 1995 and ultimately became a part of UBS. ...

in 1984. He was a senior investment banker at

UBS Investment Bank UBS Group AG is a multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland. Co-headquartered in the cities of Zürich and Basel, it maintains a presence in all major financial centres as the largest Sw ...

where he worked for over 25 years and oversaw the bank's relationship with

HM Treasury His Majesty's Treasury (HM Treasury), occasionally referred to as the Exchequer, or more informally the Treasury, is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for developing and executing the government's public finance policy and ec ...

. He was part of the team that designed the Government Bank Recapitalisation Scheme in October 2008. From 2010 until January 2014, he was Chief Executive and then Chairman of

UK Financial Investments UK Financial Investments (UKFI) was a limited company set up in November 2008 and mandated by the British government to manage HM Treasury's shareholdings in the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) and in UK Asset Resolution, which held the residu ...

, the UK government body that oversees the government's investments in financial institutions bailed out during the banking crisis. Budenberg was London Chairman of

Centerview Partners Centerview Partners is an American independent investment banking firm. Centerview operates primarily as an investment banking advisory firm. Centerview has 60 partners and 300 professionals with expertise across a wide range of industries, ge ...

between 2015 and 2020 and was also a non executive director of Charity Bank and Big Society Trust

Honours

In 2015, he was appointed

"For services to the taxpayers and the economy".

Personal life

Married with four children, Budenberg enjoys golf

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Budenberg, Robin Living people 1959 births Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Alumni of the University of Exeter British bankers British accountants British chairpersons of corporations People from Cheshire