Mike Rees: "Mauritius must and can adapt to the new global economic order"
Mike Rees visits Mauritius annually as his spouse Neena Rees is a Mauritian and they take the opportunity to host a client dinner when they are in town, much to the delight of Standard Chartered Bank (Mauritius) Ltd and their stakeholders.
Photos of Mike and Neena hosting this year’s event that was held at the Rasoi by Vineet Restaurant at the One & Only Le Saint Géran Hotel.
During Mike’s visit to Mauritius he was interviewed by the main National Newspapers & Business Magazine.
Extract of the interview
- Joined Standard Chartered as the Chief Financial Officer for Group Treasury in 1990.
- Appointed Regional Treasurer, Singapore, responsible for South East Asia Treasury businesses in October 1994.
- Appointed Group Head of Global Markets in line with the broadening of the Treasury business into Debt Capital Markets in 2000.
- Appointed Chief Executive Officer, Wholesale Banking responsible for commercial banking in addition to responsibilities for global markets in 2002.
- Joined the Board of Standard Chartered PLC in 2009.
Olga Zoutendijk, Head of Wholesale Bank Asia, recently visited Mauritius and coincidentally arrived in Mauritius on International Women’s Day. It was a brilliant experience for the women of Standard Chartered Bank (Mauritius) Ltd to spend quality time with Olga, who is the first woman from Senior Management to ever visit Mauritius. Although, Olga holds such a senior position, the staff felt that they could genuinely relate to her and thoroughly enjoyed interacting with her. They celebrated International Women’s Day with dinner at a Resort and allowed the CEO, Sridhar Nagarajan to join them, as he had ensured all the ladies had a memorable evening that they will treasure forever. Olga has become a great role model for all the women of SCBM and she is someone they all aspire to.