Bauer, C. John

John Bauer is a financial services professional with extensive experience in global markets to include Europe, the Middle East and the USA. Currently he serves as a Trustee on Samba Financial Group’s UK Pension Scheme Trust Board. Mr Bauer has held executive positions in major financial institutions around the world, including Merrill Lynch, American Express Bank, Commerce Union Bank (now Bank of America), The Gulf Bank, Kuwait, National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) and Samba Capital Management International (SCMI) in London (a subsidiary of Samba Financial Group). He has been instrumental in successfully building Wealth Management businesses for commercial banks as well as developing and integrating sophisticated investment and commercial banking products. He has been a Director of two mutual funds registered in Bahrain and has also worked closely with Shariah Boards at Samba and NBB. Mr. Bauer was Marketing Director and Chief of Staff to the MD & CIO at SCMI from April 1998 to June 2002, where he managed establishment of Samba Asset Management S.A. in Luxembourg, a UCITS Islamic investment company. He is a former member of the Arab Bankers Association, United Kingdom.