Triodos Bank’s UK CEO Bevis Watts to step down in 2025
The CEO of Triodos Bank UK, Bevis Watts, is to step down from the position next year after five years at the helm.
Bevis Watts to step down in June 2025 (Image: Triodos Bank)
In a statement, Triodos Bank UK, which operates as a subsidiary of Netherlands-based Triodos Bank and first launched in the UK in 1995, announced: “In what will be his 10th year leading Triodos Bank UK and as part of Board succession planning, Bevis has decided that it is the right time.”
Watts first joined the bank in 2008 as head of business banking for the UK and Ireland, a role he held for five years, before rejoining in 2016 as UK MD, following a three-year tenure as chief executive of the Avon Wildlife Trust.
He will continue to lead Triodos Bank UK until June 2025, with the bank confirming a “recruitment process for his successor is underway”.
The bank’s statement regarding the departure credits Watts with leading the bank through an “enormous transformation”, shifting from a telephone and internet savings institution into a provider of current accounts and mobile banking services, while also expanding its investment product offerings.
The news of Watts’ upcoming departure follows Triodos Bank UK naming former HSBC exec Mark Clayton as its new chief operating officer in August.
