People Moves
Change At Top Of ANZ

The lender announces top-rank management changes including a role covering private banking.
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has unveiled two
top-level hires, with one moving into a role leading private
banking. The changes come amid a number of senior moves in
Australia’s banking sector.
The changes at ANZ follow the recently announced decision of
ANZ’s deputy chief executive Graham Hodges to retire after 27
years with the lender.
Alexis George has been promoted to deputy CEO in addition to her
role as group executive for Wealth Australia. George will
continue to lead the divestment of ANZ’s life insurance,
superannuation and aligned dealer group businesses. She will also
take charge of ANZ’s group service centres and help CEO Shayne
Elliott with group-wide initiatives. George joined the bank in
2013 as managing director in the insurance arm, and has been
group executive, Wealth Australia, since 2016. Before this, she
was CEO Czech Republic and Slovakia at ING; before that she was
regional chief operating officer in Asia, accountable for
product, marketing, IT and pperations.
The second senior appointment, Mark Hand, has been named group
executive, Australian Business & Private Banking. He continues to
report to group executive for Australia, Fred Ohlsson.
Hand joined ANZ in 1988 and has held senior roles across business
and retail banking, credit management and internal audit in
Australia and South Asia. Since 2015 he has been MD for Business
& Private Banking.
A number of prominent individuals have come and gone from
Australia’s big banks. A raft of senior executives at
Commonwealth Bank of Australia left the lender, which appointed
CEO Matt Comyn a few months ago, taking over from Ian Narev, who
had announced his retirement. Melanie Laing, group executive for
human resources, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, group executive,
institutional banking and markets, and David Whiteing, group
executive, enterprise services and chief information officer, are
leaving CBA.