Bella joined the bank in 2000 and was invited to join the partnership in 2001.
Within the partnership she has board-level responsibility for Banking Operations, Finance, Risk and Compliance. As a lending partner, she works closely with the relationship managers. She has huge enthusiasm for meeting customers and helps build the relationships and friendships that are key to our business. She also chairs the bank’s historic defined-benefit pension scheme.
Previously, Bella worked at Cazenove in London. She moved to Moscow in 1994, where she was instrumental in the creation of the Moscow back office for Brunswick Warburg (now UBS) in the emerging Russian equities market.
Bella is a patron of Painshill. She lives on the Stourhead Estate where she opens her garden for the National Garden Scheme. Bella is also an artist, working primarily in oils.
