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LINDSAY FORBES

NON-EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER

Mr. Lindsay Forbes is Non-executive board member of Ameriabank since August, 2018

Skills and experience:

Mr. Forbes has over 40 years of experience commercial and investment banking, including more than 20 years with European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
Joining EBRD in 1994, he worked as a Senior Banker/Country Director undertaking debt and equity transactions in Central and Eastern European countries. In 2000 he became director for Corporate Equity in 2000, focusing entirely on equity transactions in multiple countries, including Armenia. From 2012 till 2016 he was director for Industry, Commerce and Agribusiness in Russia, being responsible for new business origination, portfolio management, client relationships and team management of EBRD’s industrial activities in Russia. He has represented EBRD on the Boards and Audit Committees of numerous listed and unlisted corporates and Banks in a variety of countries, including in Croatia, Poland, Romania, Kazakhstan, Russia and Egypt.

Before joining EBRD, Mr. Forbes spent 13 years with the British Linen Bank, the Investment Bank subsidiary of Bank of Scotland, specializing in commercial lending and private equity in various locations including the USA.

He qualified as a Solicitor with Norton Rose in 1978 and worked in Shipping Finance until 1980.

Education:

He has Degree in Jurisprudence from Oxford University (1975) and an MBA from INSEAD (1981).