Roger Ellender, Risk & Quality Assurance

Roger Ellender is Head Risk & Quality. He has over thirty years of investment and commercial banking experience working mainly in an emerging markets environment. Joining Bank of America as a management trainee in 1978, Roger subsequently worked for the Bank’s London and Bahrain offices in corporate banking, financial institutions and risk management. Subsequently, he worked for Banque Nationale de Paris (now BNP-Paribas)’s London branch before being seconded under a technical services agreement to United Bank for Africa, Lagos, with responsibility for syndicated lending and structured products. Subsequently, Roger worked for Standard Chartered Bank and Credit Suisse in London, where he was responsible for structured trade finance, and UBS in Singapore, where he was responsible for export credit backed vendor financing. In 1999 Roger returned to Nigeria as Executive Director, Operations and Risk Management, before joining Travelex in 2004 as General Manager. Roger graduated with honours in Politics and History from the University of Liverpool, UK, and has a Masters degree from the University of Essex in Politics and Latin American Government.