- Boucher was chief executive of Bank of Ireland’s Irish Retail Division since January 2006 where he oversaw the company’s land bank and development loans growing to €7.1 billion
- He was appointed as a Director of the Group in October 2006
- Richie joined Bank of Ireland in December 2003 as chief executive, Corporate Banking from the Royal Bank of Scotland where he had been Regional managing director – Corporate Banking, London and South East England and previously held a number of prominent roles with the Ulster Bank Group and also worked in ICC Bank
- He was born in Kitwe in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) to Irish parents, his father being from Dublin and his mother being from County Cavan
- Richie was primarily educated at St George’s College, a Catholic boarding school in Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia (now Harare in Zimbabwe)
- He later attended Rockwell College, County Tipperary, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated with a degree in business before pursuing a career in banking
- Boucher has never lost his distinctive Rhodesian/Southern African accent though he did spend his first seventeen years in Southern Africa
- On 2 July 2008, he told the Oireachtas Finance Committee “unequivocally, we do not think there is a Northern Rock in Ireland”, and the Central Bank here has stricter rules for how much ready cash banks must hold than any other country where the group does business
- In January 2011, he admitted that information supplied to the Dáil on bank staff bonuses was both misleading and incorrect
- He advised property developer Seán Dunne on his acquisition of the iconic Jury’s hotel site in Ballsbridge
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Richie Boucher
