HSBC - Key Persons
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- Chief Governance Officer
- Group Company Secretary
- Member of the European Corporate Governance Council
Aileen Taylor was appointed Group Company Secretary and Chief Governance Officer of HSBC Holdings plc in November 2019, when she also joined the Group Executive Committee. She was appointed a Group Managing Director in April 2021.
Aileen joined HSBC from the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS), where she was appointed Group Secretary in 2010 and most recently held the position of Chief Governance and Regulatory Officer and Board Counsel. A qualified lawyer, she spent 19 years at RBS undertaking roles across Legal, Governance, Risk and Compliance.
Aileen is a member of the European Corporate Governance Council, the GC100 and the Financial Conduct Authority's Listing Authority Advisory Panel.
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- Investor Relations Manager
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- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Non - Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee
Member of: Group Audit Committee Group Remuneration Committee Nomination & Corporate Governance Committee
Ann Godbehere was appointed to the Board on 1 September 2023. Ann brings deep financial acumen and extensive financial services experience over a 30-year career spanning insurance, retail and private banking, and wealth management. She also provides global perspectives, drawing upon experiences and insights gained from a long career in international business.
After joining Swiss Re in 1996, Ms Godbehere served as the company's Chief Financial Officer from 2003 to 2007. She was also Interim Chief Financial Officer of Northern Rock Bank from 2008 to 2009 in the period immediately after its nationalisation.
Ms Godbehere also has extensive FTSE board experience, having previously served as non-executive director of Prudential plc, British American Tobacco plc, UBS AG, UBS Group AG and Rio Tinto Limited, where she also held the role of Senior Independent Director.
Ms Godbehere currently serves as an non-executive director and chair of the Audit Committee on the boards of both Stellantis N.V and Shell plc.
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Professional Accountants and the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada.
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- CEO, Global Commercial Banking
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- Group Chief Legal Officer
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- Chartered Accountant
- Independent Non - Executive Director
Member of: Group Audit Committee (Chairman)Group Risk Committee Nomination & Corporate Governance Committee Group Technology Committee
Brendan Nelson was appointed to the Board on 1 September 2023. His UK and international financial and auditing expertise, and significant experience in auditing and as audit chair of UK-listed banks, are particularly valuable given the evolving audit, regulatory and disclosure environment in which the Group operates.
Mr Nelson spent over 25 years at KPMG LLP after he was admitted as a partner in 1984. He served on the KPMG UK board from 2000 and became Vice Chairman in 2006, a position he held until his retirement from KPMG in 2010. During his time at KPMG, he held various senior positions, including Global Chairman of Banking and Global Chairman of Financial Services.
He previously served as non-executive director on the boards of bp plc and of NatWest Group plc and a number of its subsidiaries. He also previously served as an independent non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee of Ulster Bank Ireland DAC.
Mr Nelson is currently chairman of BP Pension Trustees Ltd.
Mr Nelson is a qualified Chartered Accountant. He was previously a member of the Financial Services Practitioner Panel, the Financial Reporting Review Panel of the UK Financial Reporting Council and was President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland from 2013 to 2020.
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- Group Chief
- Sustainability Officer
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- ESG Investor Relations Manager
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- Chief Executive Officer, HSBC Bank Plc and HSBC Europe
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- Manager, Investor Relations
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- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Royal Mencap Society
Dame Carolyn Fairbairn was appointed to the Board on 1 September 2021. She is a highly regarded business leader with a deep understanding of the macro economic, regulatory and political environment with significant experience across the media, government and finance sectors.
Dame Carolyn served as the Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry from 2015 to 2020. She has extensive FTSE board experience, having previously served as non-executive Director of Lloyds Banking Group plc, The Vitec Group plc, Capita plc, and BAE Systems plc. She has also previously served as a non-executive Director of the UK Competition and Markets Authority and the Financial Services Authority.
Prior to this, Dame Carolyn held senior executive positions at the BBC and ITV, and was a partner at McKinsey & Co with responsibility for its UK media practice. She was also a member of Prime Minister John Major's Number 10 Policy Unit from 1995 to 1997. An economist by training, she began her career at the World Bank and the Economist magazine.
Dame Carolyn currently serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Royal Mencap Society, as an non-executive Director of Tesco plc and is an honorary fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She also holds a BA in Economics from Cambridge University, an MA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA with distinction from INSEAD.
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- Co - Chief Executive, Asia - Pacific - the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
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- Senior Independent Non - Executive Director
- Non - Executive Director and Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee of Vodafone Group Plc
Member of: Group Audit Committee Group Risk Committee Nomination & Corporate Governance Committee
David Nish was appointed to the Board on 1 May 2016. He has extensive international experience of financial services, corporate governance, strategy, financial reporting, and operational transformation.
Mr Nish served as Group Chief Executive Officer of the global life insurance and asset management group Standard Life plc between 2010 and 2015. He joined the business in 2006 as Group Finance Director and his responsibilities included strategy and risk management. He has previously worked at Scottish Power plc, the global energy group, where he was Group Finance Director, and at Price Waterhouse, where he was a partner in audit and transactions support covering a number of sectors including financial services.
Mr Nish currently serves as non-executive Director and Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee of Vodafone Group plc and is an Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee.
Previously, Mr Nish was non-executive Director of Zurich Insurance Group, London Stock Exchange Group plc, HDFC Life (India), Northern Foods plc, Thus plc, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and UK Green Investment Bank plc. He was also formerly Deputy Chairman of the Association of British Insurers, a member of the City UK Board Advisory Committee and the Financial Services Advisory Board of the Scottish Government.
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- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Non - Executive Director of Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Eileen Murray was appointed to the Board on 1 July 2020. Ms Murray is an accomplished executive with extensive knowledge in financial technology and corporate strategy from a career spanning more than 40 years.
Ms Murray most recently served as Co-Chief Executive Officer (‘CEO') of Bridgewater Associates, LP (‘Bridgewater'). Prior to joining Bridgewater, she was CEO for Investment Risk Management LLC and President and Co-CEO of Duff Capital Advisors. She also previously served as Chair of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (‘FINRA'), a self-regulating organisation for US financial securities firms.
Ms Murray launched her professional career in 1984 at Morgan Stanley, where she held several senior positions including Controller, Treasurer, and Global Head of Technology and Operations, as well as Chief Operating Officer for the firm's Institutional Securities Group. From 2002 to 2005, she was Head of Global Technology, Operations and Product Control at Credit Suisse and served on the firm's management and executive board.
Ms Murray is a non-executive Director of Guardian Life Insurance Company of America and Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. She is also an advisor to Invisible Urban Charging and Liberty City Ventures.
She holds an honorary doctoral degree from Manhattan College, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting in 1980.
Job Titles:
- Group Chief
- Human Resources Officer
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- Group Chief Financial Officer
Georges Elhedery was appointed Group Chief Financial Officer with effect from 1 January 2023. He is also co-chair of the HSBC Holdings ESG Committee.
He previously served as Co-CEO of Global Banking & Markets and was also head of the Markets & Securities Services division of the business.
Mr Elhedery joined HSBC in 2005 as a senior Global Markets executive with extensive trading experience in London, Paris and Tokyo. He later moved to Dubai and served as Regional Head of Global Markets, Middle East and North Africa (MENA); then as Head of Global Banking & Markets, MENA; and later as CEO for HSBC, Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye. Mr Elhedery also served as Head of Global Markets based in London.
Mr Elhedery holds a degree in Engineering from the École Polytechnique in Paris, France, as well as a postgraduate degree in Statistics and Economics from the École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique (ENSAE).
Job Titles:
- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Non - Executive Director of Brunswick Group Partnership Limited
Geraldine Buckingham was appointed to the Board on 1 May 2022. She is a highly regarded and widely experienced executive within the global financial services industry who brings significant Asia leadership experience to the Board.
Ms Buckingham's most recent executive role was as Chair and Head of Asia Pacific at BlackRock where she was responsible for all business activities across Hong Kong and mainland China, Japan, Australia, Singapore, India and Korea. After stepping down from this role in February 2021, she acted as senior advisor to Larry Fink, BlackRock Chairman and CEO, until her retirement from BlackRock at the end of 2021. She also previously served as Global Head of Corporate Strategy at BlackRock and prior to joining BlackRock, she was a partner within McKinsey & Company's financial services practice.
Ms Buckingham is a non-executive director of Brunswick Group Partnership Limited and H.R.L. Morrison & Co Limited and is a member of the Advisory Board of Climateworks Centre Australia.
She holds a Master of Philosophy in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor in Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from the Monash University.
Job Titles:
- Head of Fixed Income Investor Relations
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- CEO of Global Banking & Markets
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- Independent Non - Executive Director
Member of: Group Risk Committee (Chairman)Group Audit Committee Nomination & Corporate Governance Committee
Mr Forese formerly served as President of Citigroup. He began his career in securities trading with Salomon Brothers, one of Citigroup's predecessor companies, in 1985. In addition to his most recent role as President and chief executive officer of Citigroup's Institutional Clients Group, he has been chief executive of its Securities and Banking division and head of its Global Markets business.
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- Senior Manager, Investor Relations
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- Group Chief Operating Officer
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- Group Head of Internal Audit
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- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Independent Non - Executive Director on the Boards of Hindustan Unilever Limited
Kalpana Morparia was appointed to the Board on 1 March 2023. Kalpana brings extensive Asian business and cultural experience, gained over a 45 year career in banking in the region, primarily in India. Kalpana provides valuable insight and perspective to the Board's strategy, risk and performance discussions.
Her most recent executive role was as Chair of J.P. Morgan, South and Southeast Asia and a member of J.P. Morgan's Asia executive committee, which she held until her retirement in 2021. Before J.P. Morgan, she was the Joint Managing Director of ICICI Bank, India's second-largest bank, from 2001 to 2007.
Ms Morparia currently serves as an independent non-executive director on the boards of Hindustan Unilever Limited, Dr.Reddy's Laboratories Ltd., and Philip Morris International Inc. She is also a governing board member of the Bharti Foundation, Foundation for Audit Quality and the Generation India Foundation. She additionally serves as an advisor to Temasek International.
Ms Morparia graduated from the University of Bombay in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Microbiology and then in 1974 with a Bachelor of Law.
Job Titles:
- Investor Relations Executive Assistant
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- Senior Manager, Investor Relations
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- Group Chairman
- Non - Executive Group Chairman
- Non - Executive Chairman of the Discovery Group of South Africa
Mark Tucker was appointed non-executive Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc on 1 October 2017.
Mr Tucker is also non-executive Chairman of the Discovery Group of South Africa.
Mark's public appointments include membership of the UK Investment Council, chairing the UK Multinational Chairmen's Group (which brings together the largest UK-based multinational firms) and Supporting Chair of Chapter Zero.
Mark also belongs to the Trade Finance Advisory Group of the International Chamber of Commerce and to the UK Department of Trade's Financial Services Trade Advisory Group, and is Co-Chair of the Indian B20 Taskforce on Financial Inclusion for Economic Empowerment.
Mark was appointed to The Asia Society Board of Trustees in October 2021. He is also an Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a Director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and sits on the Advisory Board of the British Museum.
Until recently, Mark was a member of the Prime Minister's Build Back Better Business Council, and Chair of TheCityUK until May 2022. Mark has also served on the Court of The Bank of England, and on the Board of the Goldman Sachs Group.
He has over 35 years' experience in the financial services industry in Asia, the US, the UK and Africa, including over 30 years based in Hong Kong. His previous role was Group Chief Executive and President of AIA Group Limited, having joined in July 2010. Before AIA he was Group Chief Executive of Prudential plc.
Mark gained a BA from Leeds University, and received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Leeds University in July 2022. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in England and Wales in 1985.
Mark is married with two children. He is passionate about football, including having played professionally.
Job Titles:
- Head of Equity, Investor Relations
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- Chief Executive Officer, HSBC USA and Americas
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- Global Head of Investor Relations
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- Group Chief Executive
- Non - Executive Director of the Sustainable Markets Initiative
Noel Quinn was appointed Group Chief Executive in March 2020.
Mr Quinn has been with HSBC - or its constituent companies - since 1987, when he joined Forward Trust Group, a subsidiary of Midland Bank (now HSBC UK). He led HSBC's acquisitions of Swan National Motor Finance and Eversholt Leasing Ltd, becoming General Manager of each business in turn.
He subsequently served as Head of Specialised and Equity Finance at HSBC; Group Director of Strategy & Development at HSBC Insurance Services North America; Head of Commercial Finance Europe; and Head of Commercial Banking UK.
From 2011 to 2015, he was the Regional Head of Commercial Banking for Asia-Pacific, based in Hong Kong. Mr Quinn was appointed Chief Executive, Global Commercial Banking in December 2015. He became a Group Managing Director in September 2016.
Mr Quinn is a non-executive director of the Sustainable Markets Initiative, which was founded by HM King Charles III, as Prince of Wales, in 2020, and chairs its Financial Services Taskforce. He is a Principal of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, which commits financial institutions worldwide to align their lending and investment portfolios with net zero emissions by 2050, as well as a member of the World Bank Private Sector Investment Lab and the WEF International Business Council.
Mr Quinn qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1987.
Job Titles:
- CEO, Wealth and Personal Banking
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- Group Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
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- Independent Non - Executive Director
Rachel Duan was appointed to the Board on 1 September 2021. She is a highly regarded and experienced business leader who brings exceptional international leadership experience and business acumen to the Board.
Most recently, Ms Duan served as Senior Vice President of General Electric (GE) and President & CEO of GE's Global Markets, where she was responsible for driving GE's growth in China, Asia Pacific, India, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. During her 24-year career at GE, she held several senior leadership positions including President & CEO of GE Advanced Materials China and then of the Asia Pacific, President & CEO of GE Healthcare China, and President & CEO of GE China.
Ms Duan also serves on the boards of AXA S.A., Sanofi S.A., and The Adecco Group AG, as an independent director. Throughout her career, she has worked and lived in the United States, Japan, Hong Kong and mainland China.
Ms Duan holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and International Business from Shanghai International Studies University and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin.
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- Regional Chief Executive Officer - Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye
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- Group Chief Communications and Brand Officer
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- Independent Non - Executive Director
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- Co - Chief Executive, Asia - Pacific - the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
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- Independent Non - Executive Director
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- Investor Relations Manager
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- Head ESG and Sell Side, Investor Relations
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- Investor Relations Assistant
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- Head of Investor Relations, ASP