John Silvester Varley (born 1 April 1956) is an English banker who was the group chief executive of Barclays from 2004 to 2011.
[5] In 1995 he became chairman of the Asset Management Division and from April 1998 to October 2000 was chief executive, retail financial services.
[5] He joined the main Barclays board on 5 June 1998 and was group finance director from 2000 until the end of 2003.
[7] In June 2017, following a five-year investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office covering Barclays' activities during the financial crisis of 2007–2008, Varley and three former colleagues, Roger Jenkins, Thomas Kalaris and Richard Boath, were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud and the provision of unlawful financial assistance.
[15] They live in Brook Green in Hammersmith, West London, and own a country house in Hampshire.