Charles Lansdown is a seasoned financial executive with over 30 years of experience in banking and securities. He has a proven track record of managing large-scale assets, leading complex project financings, and launching new ventures in the US and international markets.
- As the Executive Vice President and General Manager of the New York branch of a German bank with assets in excess of $300 billion, Charles was responsible for the management of US assets in excess of $12 billion.
- Charles has acted on behalf of several European banks to start subsidiaries and banking offices in the United States and Canada. In connection with a project for one bank, he became a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and a member of the Association of International Bank Audit and Compliance Professionals.
- He is experienced in dealing with officials of the state banking departments in New York, New Jersey, California and Utah as well as officers of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. When managing a bank branch, a bank representative office and other financial entities, Charles also maintained relationships with banking regulators in Finland, Sweden, Germany and Canada.
- Charles launched new ventures for the German bank by founding an insurance company as well as a broker-dealer that he subsequently sold to an affiliate of a major American energy company. Charles holds FINRA licenses Series 7, 24, 63 and 99TO.