Lee leads Payment Strategy and Partnerships for NatWest Group. His role covers many elements including assessing the landscape, defining strategic opportunities, driving innovation and supporting customers across multiple brands in collaboration with internal and external partners.

Those external partners include some of the scale payment providers that have a relationship with the Group. One of which NatWest has a minority stake in, for which Lee sits as an observer on their Board.

With knowledge and experience working across all types of payments, he has also been a leading voice internally and externally in the Payments and Digital Asset space, sitting on multiple industry groups and representing NatWest on industry innovation and experiments both in the UK and globally.

He also has extensive banking experience in product / P&L management, risk, policy setting and strategy. 

Lee joined NatWest in 2018 after 13 years at the Co-operative Bank where he held senior leadership roles within product and payments.  Latterly owning the payment strategy together with responsibility for regulatory change including PSD2 and key payment scheme relationships.