Vaughn Richtor was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Banking Asia in December 2009, having only been appointed to the role of CEO Retail Banking Asia in September 2009. He is in charge of all ING's banking activities in the region.

Prior to this role, Vaughn was the Managing Director and CEO of ING Vysya Bank in India and responsible for the successful turnaround of the bank, seeing its productivity and profitability increase steadily during his tenure.

During his association with ING he held various senior management positions of General Manager, International & Corporate Banking - ING Mercantile Mutual Bank, Deputy General Manager and Head of Corporate Banking - ING Bank (UK), General Manager - ING Bank (Dublin) and as Head of Corporate Banking - ING Bank (UK) and also as the CEO of ING Direct Australia.

Vaughn started his career as Business Analyst at SKF (UK) and then moved to Rank Xerox Ltd. wherein he held the positions of Senior Treasury Dealer / Assistant Treasurer and Treasury Analyst.

He then joined Sedgwick Group as Assistant Treasurer - International and went on to join ABN Bank UK / ABN AMRO as Head of Special Product / Head of Corporate and Commercial Banking.