2009 Women in the City Financial Services Award

Barbara-Ann King

I am particularly delighted to win this award in a year that has been challenging for our industry and when the role of women in finance has been front of mind for many. It is my duty as a senior woman on the Barclays Stockbrokers management team to motivate and encourage other women within Barclays Wealth to maximise their contribution to the financial industry and ensure that integrity underpins everything we do.

It is a testament to the quality of female professionals in the City to be considered amongst a group of such high calibre professionals. This award will be extremely well received by the men and women at Barclays and in particular by the growing cohort of members of the Women’s initiatives Network, as we strive to drive forward the pace of change.

Barbara-Ann joined Barclays Wealth in 2006 and was appointed Head of Investments in 2008, responsible for research, investment strategy, e-commerce and marketing across the UK’s leading stockbroker.

Barbara-Ann joined Barclays Stockbrokers from the Barclays Wealth Investment and Product Office where she spent 19 months as Head of Alternative Product to building the business in hedge funds, private equity, real estate and commodities.

Prior to this she spent six years at Citigroup, latterly in the private bank in their London and New York offices as Global Head of Alternative Investments and has also held previous positions in intellectual property and business valuation for the Chiltern Group and in academia as a law lecturer including two years building a university franchise in Athens for a leading UK university.

Barbara-Ann holds an LL.B (Hons) and an LL.M in intellectual property and commercial law from London School of Economics and QMW Centre for Commercial Law. She also achieved Law Society Finals from The College of Law, Guildford.

Barbara-Ann sits on the Barclays Stockbrokers Executive and Management Committees, represents Barclays Wealth at APCIMS and plays an active part in a number of professional and charitable institutions at Board level. Barbara-Ann is Co-Chair for the Barclays Wealth Women’s initiatives Network and was recently a winner of Barclays Group Women of The Year, 2009 for outstanding achievement in her professional field and contribution to the broader Barclays Group.

Janet Thomas

Winning the Women in the City Finance Category Award is a great honour and privilege. These awards highlight the essential contribution that talented women make to maintaining London’s pre-eminence as a financial global centre. Harnessing female talent is absolutely critical to enhance a firm’s competitiveness. Together with Women in the City, and as a member of the CitiWomen Steering Committee, I am proud that this award will assist the implementation of women’s initiatives across Citi’s global franchis

Janet Thomas is a Director in Citi’s Foreign Exchange Prime Finance and is part of a team which has expanded the business from start-up to being ranked the ‘Best FX Prime Broker’ globally by FX Profit and Loss.  She is responsible for the creation of CitiFX Click, a market-leading FX Prime product which received Best Product and Service awards in 2008 and 2009 from FX Profit and Loss.  These innovative products have lead to Citi FX Prime winning substantial new business. Janet is a member of the CitiWomen Steering Committee whose key objective has been to provide creative networks to enable women to fulfil their true potential within the organisation.

Whilst in the public sector, Janet led regeneration projects in West London of over £500m. She has also secured over £10m in funding for voluntary sector organisations.

She has a BA (Hons) Politics and an MBA from Cass Business School.

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