John McGraw
Personal Banker, Barclays Bank
I have a wide range of skills and experience ranging from telemarketing and telesales to investigating crime including the interviewing of witnesses and suspects in accordance with PEACE and PACE and qualified as an accredited Investigator in 2008.
I am a qualified Independent Financial Adviser and have worked successfully in both the UK, which has some of the most stringent financial regulations in the world; and also abroad in countries as diverse in culture as Brazil and Bahrain. In each of these countries I have started a business from scratch, finding my own clients to speak to and provide financial solutions for. I was particularly successful in setting up a number of joint-ventures in Bahrain.
As an IFA in the UK, I developed and administered my own client bank from my beginnings in Financial Services in 1997 with Canada Life.
I have also been a Forex Trader with Archangel Money, a company which unfortunately collapsed in 2010/11.
I have managed and trained my own team of sales-support staff, recruited from the UK to work with me in Sao Paulo.
I currently work for Barclays Bank in their retail banking division as a telephony personal banker.
208 contacts2002 - 2004Took on a number of freelance positions including that of Independent Financial Adviser with the Premier Group giving experience and advice in their setting up of a corporate and offshore advisory service.
Also as Senior Business Development Manager with Worldwide UK Ltd working and living in Bahrain between 2009 and 2010 where I negotiated lucrative joint venture agreements with large local and multi-national companies.
2001 - 2001Researched and resourced my own client bank from scratch whilsat working in Sao Paulo, Brazi
Responsible for the training, administration and welfare of own sales support team.l