Peter White, Esq

Career: chartered accountant Price Waterhouse 1965-69, mgmnt accountant, chief internal auditor then financial controller and treas Abbey National Building Society 1970-82; Alliance & Leicester plc: gen mangr (fin and mgmnt servs) Alliance Building Society 1982-85, gen mangr (admin and treasy) Alliance & Leicester (following merger) 1985-87, dir and gen mangr (strategy, sales, mktg and treasury) 1987-89, dep gp chief exec and md 1989-91, gp chief exec 1991-99; dir: Alliance & Leicester Pensions Investments Ltd, Electronic Funds Transfer (Clearing) Ltd, Electronic Funds Transfer (POS) Ltd; chm Girobank plc 1996-99, non-exec dir Reckitt Benckiser plc (formerly Reckitt & Colman plc) 1997-; formerly: dep chm Building Socs Assoc, chm Met Assoc of Building Socs, chm Cncl of Mortgage Lenders; memb Cncl Br Bankers Assoc; Freeman City of London; memb IOD; FCA 1985, fell ACT 1993, CIMgt 1993, FCIB 1993