David Drumm
David Kenneth Drumm (born November 1966) is an Irish banking executive. He was the CEO of Anglo Irish Bank from 2005 to 2008. In 2018, he was convicted of fraud for actions during his time there related to the Anglo Irish Bank hidden loans controversy. Early life Drumm was born in November 1966, in the seaside suburb town of Skerries in north County Dublin. Career He joined McQuillan Kelly & Company from school to train as a chartered accountant. In 1988 he moved to the venture capital wing of the International Fund for Ireland, from which he obtained a position of assistant manager with Anglo Irish Bank. In 1997 Drumm was a senior lender in the bank. After another lender who managed a portfolio of US loans declined the opportunity to there, Drumm accepted. He moved his young family to Boston in April 1998, with a brief to analyse the potential for Anglo-Irish Bank to expand its US business. He built up relationships with US investors and developers, as well as local banks before reporting back favourably to Dublin. The board of Anglo approved entry to the market, and Drumm led the expansion of its US office. It received a