Bruce Rigal, Managing Director and Former COO, Global Banking, Deutsche Bank

Bruce Rigal, Managing Director and Former COO, Global Banking, Deutsche Bank

Bruce Rigal spent 10 years as Managing Director and Global Chief Operating Officer of the Corporate Finance and Global Banking businesses at Deutsche Bank. Bruce was responsible for the world-wide operations (working with infrastructure divisions) of Global Banking including planning, human resources, performance measurement and compensation, cost management, communications and marketing and infrastructure. He was on the DG Group Asset and Liability Management Committee and he was a senior mentor to the DB Women in European Business Group. While at Deutsche Bank Bruce also spent two years as Deputy Chief Operating Officer of Deutsche Bank’s Corporate and Investment Bank and two years as COO of Global Human Resources.

Prior to becoming COO Bruce worked in Equity Capital Markets for S.G. Warburg (at the time the UK’s top Investment Bank) and then Deutsche Bank where he concentrated on equity and equity-linked issuance for European companies and Russia in particular. Before moving to London in 1991 Bruce worked in the Treasury Department of Canadian Utilities Limited (part of the ATCO group) in Edmonton from 1984 to 1987 and for the management consultant Oliver Wyman and Company in New York.

Bruce has remained involved with the University of Chicago. In 2011-12 he spent a year as the Distinguished Executive in Residence at the University’s Booth School of Business London campus. He is the past co-Chairman of Booth’s European, Middle East, Africa Advisory Board. He has lectured at the University of Alberta, University of Chicago, the National University of Singapore and the Ruppin School in Israel.

He now works as an independent consultant on Performance Management and Compensation. Bruce is a founding member of the UK Advisory Board of Facing History and Ourselves and is the Treasurer of Masorti Judaism.

Bruce holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Finance and International Business) from the University of Alberta School of Business and an MBA (Finance) from the University of Chicago.