Roger Jenkins - Current Employment
Roger Jenkins recently launched his own firm. His shop will focus on advising sovereign wealth funds and other cash-rich investment funds.
Roger Jenkins - Previous Positions
In 1978, following his graduation from university, Roger Jenkins spent time in the oil and gas business before he joined Barclays as a trainee banker. From 1982 to 1984, Roger Jenkins worked in New York at BZW, part of the Barclays empire, as head of Private Placements. He then served for a period in the Capital Funding division of Barclays Bank, where he helped to establish Barclay's Futures, before moving on to a position with Kleinwort Benson as head of Private Placements and Bank Syndications in New York.
In 1990, Roger Jenkins became co-head of the Financial Markets Division in Kleinwort Benson's London office, and four years later he re-joined Barclays Capital as head of Structured Capital Markets, a group he established to offer clients advice regarding leasing and risk management.
Roger Jenkins later served as the executive chairman of the Middle East Division at Barclays Investment Banking and Investment Management (IBIM), as well as the chief executive of Barclays Private Equity and Principal Investments. One of the company's most highly appreciated employees, Roger Jenkins and his tax expertise were a powerful draw at Barclays, bringing in both individual investors and corporations as clients.
Revered for his knowledge of tax schemes and for the successful leadership of his division, Roger Jenkins has been Barclay's most important weapon, closing on a Middle Eastern deal that saved the firm from having to seek government support. His complex usage of a strategy known as tax arbitrage enabled his employer to pay reduced taxes and become one of the most powerful firms in its field.
In addition to the executive roles he held at Barclays, Roger Jenkins served on several executive committees at the firm.
Roger Jenkins - Personal Background
Roger Jenkins, whose father worked as the manager of an oil refinery, was sent as a child to be privately educated at Edinburgh Academy. He went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he was a celebrated athlete and scholar. In 1973, while still at university, Roger Jenkins participated in the British International Games, coming third in the 400 metre sprint and in the World Student Games, where he won a silver medal.
Roger Jenkins is married to Sanela Dijana Jenkins, with whom he has two children. A business woman in her own right, Mrs. Jenkins met her husband at the Barbican Health Club in London. The couple married in 1999.
