11 Facts About Eric Daniels

John Eric Daniels was born on August 14,1951 and is an American banker, and the former chief executive officer of Lloyds Banking Group.

Eric Daniels was born in Dillon, Montana, the son of a German university professor and a Chinese mother, who met at the University of California, Berkeley.

Eric Daniels received a bachelor's degree in History at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York graduating in 1973, then a master's degree in Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts leaving in 1975.

Eric Daniels worked with Citibank from 1975, based in Panama for five years, then worked in Argentina.

Eric Daniels became chief operating officer of Citibank Consumer Bank in 1998.

Eric Daniels joined Lloyds TSB in 2001 as head of retail banking.

Eric Daniels became CEO of Lloyds TSB in June 2003, and of Lloyds Banking Group in January 2009 after the merger with HBOS.

Eric Daniels built a reputation for being quietly spoken, thoughtful and not prone to superlatives - what many would describe as excellent, he would say was "pleasing".

Eric Daniels was questioned about the banking crisis during a session of the Treasury Select Committee of the House of Commons on February 12,2009.

Eric Daniels said that a company would always like to do more due diligence on another company, but there are limits on how much is possible prior to an actual acquisition.

Sources said that Daniels had legitimately kept his non-dom status when he joined the board of Lloyds TSB in 2001.