Barclays appoints new lead for mid-corporate market in South West region

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Peter Davison

Barclays has announced the appointment of Greer Hooper to lead the mid-corporate market for the South West region.

Greer will be responsible for the continued growth for Barclays mid-corporate, managing and driving forward the mid-corporate business proposition across the South West region encompassing Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth and Truro.

The role will see Greer work to deepen existing and new client relationships, operating between £6.5 million and £50 million turnover, and being responsible for managing a team of over 16 colleagues based at offices located in Bristol, Exeter and Truro.

Mark Stuckey, Barclays head of mid-corporate for the South of the UK, said: “I am pleased to welcome Greer into her new role.

"Greer’s notable industry knowledge particularly in the hospitality and leisure sector will prove invaluable, as we continue to strengthen our mid-corporate teams and industry specialists to support clients in fulfilling their business ambitions across the region now and in the future.”

Greer brings 25 years of banking experience to the role, including working with start-up businesses through to multi-national clients, with the previous 10 years operating as a Barclays relationship director for mid-corporate in South Wales.

Greer said: “I am thrilled to be appointed into this role and look forward to leading the Barclays mid-corporate team across the region which has a unique, diverse and vibrant economy.

"I look forward to working with the team as we focus on successfully providing an outstanding service to our clients and helping them reach their business goals and in doing so helping the local and regional economy to thrive.”

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.