Massoud Janekeh

Director of Islamic Capital Markets

Massoud joined BLME in April 2007 as Director of Corporate Banking. Massoud has many years experience gained across a number of industries, advisory and financial service sectors. He spent 10 years managing investments for global products at ICI/Zeneca, before moving to strategy consultancy with AT Kearney and Integrum. Massoud then moved to financial services when he joined BDIC as a corporate finance advisor and later on becoming involved in structured debt with European American Capital.

Graeme Laing

Head of Leasing

Graeme joined BLME in June 2008 as Senior Leasing Manager, and has since been promoted to Head of Leasing. Prior to this Graeme was European Programmes Manager for CIT Group in Europe, managing various Vendor Finance Programmes across Europe. Graeme began his career with BNP Paribas Lease Group in Scotland, before working for PACCAR Financial Europe in the UK and The Netherlands. Graeme specialises in originating and structuring lease transactions but also has experience in risk and business development.

Allan Griffiths

Consultant

Allan joined BLME in October 2007 as Director and Head of Property Finance. Prior to this Allan worked at institutions including DG Bank, Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co and Landesbank Baden Wuerttemberg. Allan is a past President and Honorary Life Member of the Association of Property Bankers and continues to be involved with its activities.

Rodney Ballard

Director of Trade Finance

Rodney joined BLME in August 2007 as Director of Trade Finance. Prior to this Rodney worked for Natixis and Standard Chartered Bank as Head of their Structured Export Finance group. Rodney has extensive experience in the international arena handling a wide variety of transactions across the world and has been active throughout the broad spectrum of trade finance and risk mitigation. His main area of concentration is originating and structuring transactions to support telecommunications, pulp and paper and capital goods suppliers in their sales of equipment and services as well as advising clients on financing of trade.

Mark Jarvis

Senior Leasing Manager

Mark joined BLME in September 2007 as Senior Leasing Manager. Prior to this, Mark worked for a number of institutions including Citigroup, Rabo Bank, ABC, Siemens, Lloyds Bank and Woodchester Credit Lyonnais. Latterly Mark has specialised in asset/equipment management, but he also has experience in originations, risk and business development.

Keith Bell

Senior Property Manager

Alice Myers

Property Finance

Alice joined BLME in April 2008 to help establish the risk management function. In 2009 Alice moved to the property team as the banking business expanded. Alice graduated from Oxford and has more than 10 years banking experience working in a variety of internationally facing roles. She started working at the Bank of England and subsequently joined Morgan Stanley as a credit analyst covering a variety of sectors and countries. She speaks French and German.

Jervis Rhodes

Head of Corporate Banking

Jervis graduated from Cambridge University and has spent his career in banking. In 1987 he joined NM Rothschild and was appointed Director in 1999. He moved to Singer & Friedlander in 2003 responsible for acquisition finance, trade finance and corporate banking. In May 2006 he was appointed Chief Executive of Ruffler Bank until its sale. He subsequently joined BLME.