Douglas Gee

Douglas is responsible for driving global sales strategy, accelerating new business revenue growth and expanding awareness of Northern Trust’s ever-evolving capabilities. Douglas and his global team in Americas, EMEA and APAC engage with both asset managers and asset owners to develop strategic solutions to support their front, middle and back office needs. Through deep sector knowledge and a consultative approach, they help organisations to identify opportunities to maximise the efficiency of their investment operations and reduce risks and costs across the investment lifecycle. This is achieved by designing the optimal combination of asset enhancement, asset administration and asset servicing solutions made available via Northern Trust Whole Office™. These solutions are underpinned by attentive service and advanced technology, leveraging digital innovations to boost transparency, decision-making and business resiliency. Douglas is based in London.

Prior to assuming this responsibility in July 2025, Douglas was Head of Business Development, International (EMEA & APAC) from January 2024 to June 2025, Head of Business Development EMEA from October 2015 to December 2023 and Head of Sales for Assets Owners UK and Africa from April 2008 to September 2015. In these leadership roles, Douglas led the team and developed our approach to business development that focused on value based consultative selling. He is passionate about helping asset owner and asset manager clients to identify and realise valuable business outcomes in tandem with achieving the cost and efficiency gains typically associated with asset servicing.

Douglas applies his experience across business development roles in a number of different sectors, including IT and Consulting. He earned a B.Sc. degree, with honours, in Computer Sciences and Politics from University of West England, Bristol.