Meet the man who single-handedly destroyed NAB's reputation
After slashing National Australia Bank's regional branches by a third, CEO Ross McEwan is bailing before a senate inquiry into the closure reports.
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After slashing National Australia Bank's regional branches by a third, CEO Ross McEwan is bailing before a senate inquiry into the closure reports.
Andrew Irvine’s impressive performance growing NAB’s business bank has won him the top job. Now he needs to borrow from the playbook of retiring CEO, Ross McEwan.
Turning a basket case into a high-performing enterprise is a sure fire way to attract admirers. Inheriting a well-oiled corporate machine makes it harder to excel.
After four years at NAB, the businessman has called it quits. His path to the top job took him from the bank’s major competitor, CBA, to Scotland and back.
Institutional investors will probably remember Ross McEwan’s stint at the helm of accident-prone NAB as a ‘turnaround story’, but some aspects of his legacy are unlikely to be fully measurable for several years.