Fleming rose through ranks to become BSP chief

ROBIN Fleming arrived in the country at the end of 1980 after being seconded by the Commonwealth Bank as an internal auditor and branch training officer in Kimbe and Arawa.
He then joined the PNG Banking Corporation (PNGBC) as a contract officer at its Waigani branch in 2002. Fleming was there when it was privatised and renamed Bank of South Pacific.
He rose through the ranks to become the bank’s chief executive officer in 2013. Fleming was born and grew up in Inala, a working-class housing commission suburb of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia.
He is married to Dora. They have three children: Cassandra, Liam and Joshua.
Fleming told The National in an interview last October that the privatisation of the PNGBC in 2002 was challenging.
“The biggest challenge was the uncertainty it caused for PNGBC staff at the time,” he said. “The risk of losing their jobs was real, and it gave the staff, including myself, a lot of anxiety and stress.”
When BSP expanded its business across the Pacific, “we went to great lengths to give undertakings to the staff that they would not lose their jobs”.