Mark Qualter
Head of AI, Commercial and Private Banking, RBS

Mark St. John Qualter is head of artificial intelligence for commercial and private banking at RBS. Previously, he designed and led a project that successfully transformed the Bank’s SME real estate lending proposition. Mark has held a number of other roles at RBS, including head of strategy of the Customer Solutions Group, the specialist product division of RBS’s Corporate Banking Division; director of strategy for RBS invoice finance; UK head of corporate invoice finance; managing director for North of England real estate; and regional director for corporate banking for Yorkshire and Humberside. He is currently a governor of Manchester Metropolitan University, chair of the Audit Committee, and a member of the Nominations and Governance Committee. Mark was also a member of the Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Council for the CBI. Mark holds an MBA from Manchester Business School and a BA (with honors) in Hindi and Sinhalese from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. His interests are street, documentary, and portrait photography, travel, and Krav Maga.