RE: The next Metro Bank chairman: who might replace flamboyant founder Vernon Hill?9 Oct 2019 10:31
ew bosses in the UK banking sector are as eccentric as American billionaire Vernon Hill, the Metro Bank founder who has compared opening a bank account in London to "having your teeth drilled" and initially made a fortune running Burger King franchises.
A former golfing buddy of Donald Trump who is known as “Vernon the Barbarian” to his rivals in the US, those who know Hill say he once brought Biggin Hill’s annual air show to a standstill so he could fly to Italy in his private jet, refuses to travel anywhere without his Yorkshire
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