J Eric Daniels

Eric Daniels was appointed to the BT Board on April 1st 2008.

Eric Daniels became group chief executive of the Lloyds TSB Group on June 1st  2003, having joined the board in November 2001 as group executive, UK Retail Banking. Immediately prior to this, Eric was chairman and chief executive of Zona Financiera, a leading Latin American financial portal providing consumers with independent financial advice.

Eric spent the majority of his career with Citibank, spanning some 25 years. He started his career in Panama where he worked in systems, operations and planning and spent a total of 13 years in Latin America, with positions including the consumer country head for Chile and the Riverplate region. He spent four years based in London running Citibank’s private banking operations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He then returned to the United States to hold senior positions in head office and subsequently to become president of FSB, Citibank’s West Coast consumer franchise based in San Francisco, California. In 1996, he was appointed regional head of Citibank Consumer Bank Europe, based in Brussels.

In 1998, Eric became the chief operating officer of Citibank’s Consumer Bank based in New York and subsequent to a merger became chairman and chief executive of Travelers Life Annuity, based in Hartford, Connecticut.

Eric holds degrees from the Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.