Martin James Gilbert FRSE (born 13 July 1955) is a British businessman, and the vice chairman of Standard Life Aberdeen and chairman of Aberdeen Standard Investments. He was chief executive (CEO) of Aberdeen Asset Management, an international investment management company, which he co-founded in 1983.[1] He was chairman of FirstGroup from April 1995 to January 2014.[2] He became a patron of The Aberdeen Law Project in 2010.
Martin Gilbert | |
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| Born | Martin James Gilbert 13 July 1955 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Robert Gordon's College |
| Alma mater | University of Aberdeen |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Years active | 1976–present |
| Title | Vice Chairman, Standard Life Aberdeen |
| Term | 2019–present |
| Successor | Incumbent |
| Spouse | Fiona Gilbert |
| Children | 3 |
Early life
editBorn on 13 July 1955 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Gilbert was educated at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, and the University of Aberdeen and has an LLB in Law and an MA in Accountancy.[3][4] He was in the same year of law school at the University of Aberdeen as Alistair Darling.
Career
editGilbert co-founded Aberdeen Asset Management in 1983.[4]
Gilbert received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2014[5] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2017.[6]
In March 2017, a merger between Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management was announced. At the time, the merger created the UK’s largest asset management firm, and the second biggest in Europe.[7]
In November 2019, Gilbert was appointed chairman of UK-based neobank Revolut.[8] The next month, he stepped down from the board of Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) and left SLA altogether in September 2020. In 2020, Gilbert was named as chairman of the Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC), now the Net Zero Technology Centre, for the energy industry.[9]
Personal life
editGilbert and his wife Fiona, professor of radiology at the University of Cambridge, have three children.[10]
Notes
edit- ^ "Corporate History - About Us - Aberdeen Asset Management". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
- ^ "FirstGroup appoints John McFarlane as Chairman". FirstGroup. Archived from the original on 26 April 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
- ^ Oakley, David (11 August 2013). "The right kind of resilience". Financial Times.
- ^ a b "Martin James Gilbert: Executive Profile & Biography". BusinessWeek. Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 18 January 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
- ^ "Honorary Graduates Summer 2014 - News | Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh". www.hw.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ^ "RSE Welcomes 60 New Fellows" (Press release). Royal Society of Edinburgh. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
- ^ "Standard Life and Aberdeen agree merger". Financial Times. 6 March 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ^ "Martin Gilbert joins fintech Revolut as chairman". Reuters. 11 November 2019.
- ^ "OGTC names entrepreneur Martin Gilbert as chair at 'crucial' time". Energy Voice. 6 January 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
- ^ "Martin Gilbert, Aberdeen Asset Management's swashbuckling Scot with a feel for a big deal". BusinessWeek. The Telegraph. 5 July 2009. Retrieved 13 November 2012.