Robert D. Bailey is a former senior international banker with over three decades experience leading multi-billion-dollar divisions for Citibank , NationsBank (now Bank of America) and Banco Santander in Asia, Europe and Latin America. Most recently, he served as Under Secretary for Finance and Administration at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, where he was responsible for an annual budget of $650 million and oversaw modernization of an aging infrastructure with $1.5 billion in deferred maintenance challenges.

Mr. Bailey began his career as a lending and planning officer for the Latin American Division of Citibank. At age 30, he was named Country Head for Citibank Mexico where, in three years, he quadrupled profits and developed a cadre of Mexican executives who have become many of the country's financial leaders in both the private and public sectors. Following a two-year stint in Milan, Italy, where as Country Head he managed two finance companies and a leasing firm, Mr. Bailey was named Regional Head for the UK and Scandinavia.

During five years in that position, he managed 40 offices with over 2,000 employees and $12 billion in assets. He doubled profits in two years with no staff increase. In 1980, he was named Country Head for Brazil, Citibank's largest overseas market at the time with over 4,000 employees and $5 billion in assets. He again doubled profits, increased the number of Citibank branches in Brazil to 20 and established a successful new investment bank/stock brokerage.

Between 1985-1992, Mr. Bailey capped his career at Citibank with positions as first, Head of the Asian Division and then, Head of the Latin American Division. He also served on Chairman John Reed's Policy Committee, the senior management team for the bank, for seven years.

In 1992, he left Citibank to take on consulting assignments in Mexico and rebuilding Central Banks for KPMG/USAID in former Soviet countries, including Kazakhstan and Slovakia. In 1995, he was recruited by NationsBank Chair Hugh McColl to lead the Charlotte NC-based regional bank's new International Division and two years later was again recruited, this time by Spain's largest bank, Banco Santander, to lead its accelerated international expansion effort.