MICHAEL GORDON’s appointment as Head of Business Consulting at Rule Financial enhances the depth and breadth of services Rule is capable of offering the financial services sector. His knowledge and recent work involving retail banking, cards and payments effectively adds several new and keenly-anticipated strings to the company’s already powerful bow.  

“With a combination of universal banks and investment banks among Rule’s clients, there are great opportunities for us to offer additional competencies and a wider range of services across all divisions of the bank.” he explains. “This will accelerate the development of Rule’s Business Consulting practice and I’m delighted to be leading it.”

In 20 years of consulting, preceded by an early career as a distinguished academic at Leicester University, Michael Gordon’s clients have included ABN AMRO, HBoS, Eagle Star, HSBC, Invesco, LloydsTSB, Marks & Spencer Financial Services, Mellon Bank, Prudential (UK), Royal Bank of Scotland, Yorkshire Building Society and Visa International. At Cap Gemini he was responsible for services delivered to banking clients in the UK and Ireland, with a £45m P&L responsibility, and led their UK Banking and Securities Consultancy Practice and the Group’s Global Banking Centre of Excellence.

While an academic he also advised a variety of public sector bodies including: The European Commission, The Department of Health and Social Security, The Royal College of General Practitioners and The British Library.