Gwynne.Master@LloydsBanking.com

Managing Director & Head of Lending, Trade and Working Capital Product & Sales, CIB

Gwynne joined Lloyds Banking Group in Feb 2018 to lead the Global Transaction Banking (GTB) Financial Institutions (FI) and NBFI Sales teams.  Gwynne was then asked to lead the GTB Global Trade business, which included Open Account and Traditional Trade Product, Solutions and Sales across SME, Mid-Caps, Large Corporates and FIs.

In 2021 Gwynne took on the role as Head of Working Capital within Client Products, responsible for the suite of Invoice Financing solutions in addition to Trade Finance. Effective June 2022, she became CIB of Head of Trade, Lending and Working Capital Solutions & Sales.

Gwynne has significant International experience through her time with Barclays Bank, Wells Fargo and SCB. She spent 18 years in Asia, as Managing Director, Head of Asia FI and Co-Head of Asia Corporate with Barclays as well as CEO & MD of Southeast Asia for Wachovia Bank, when she acquired the Hanoi business and was responsible for six offices in the region. In her earlier career with Wachovia (Well Fargo), Gwynne was based in the both the U.S. and Italy, opened the Milan Office and lead Coverage & Sales across Italy and some of the Southern Europe markets.

In addition to her current role as Managing Director & Head of Lending, Trade and Working Capital, Gwynne is a passionate advocate and driver of diversity and sustainability initiatives across the organisation and has developed relationships with a number of FinTech’s within this space – championing partnerships and pilots to address sustainable supply chain finance, mapping, and risk mitigation, as well as carbon scoring to support UK corporates with Scope 3 emissions reduction. She is engaged across industry bodies such as UKEF, ITFA and BAFT, representing Lloyds Bank.

Gwynne serves as the Race Diversity Advocate for Lloyds Commercial & Institutional Bank (CIB). She actively plays a lead on policy and process to drive change and ensure Lloyds is a top place to work in the UK. She is a strong believer in the corelation between organisational diversity and high performance and is actively focused on building UK networks to recruit and promote top talent from diverse pools.

Gwynne has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of California and a Master of Arts degree in International Relations & Economics from the Elliot School, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Gwynne is married with two sons, living in London.