Rick Haythornthwaite

Rick Haythornthwaite is the current chairman of the NatWest Group, having taken on the role in April 2022. He has a background in finance and has served in various leadership roles across multiple industries, including telecommunications and investment management. Haythornthwaite has expressed gratitude towards taxpayers for their support of the bank during the 2008 financial crisis, marking the recent sale of the final Treasury shares in NatWest as a symbolic moment for the institution.