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Report of the Directors: Corporate Governance (continued)
Biographies
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Former Director
Safra Catz, 54
Independent non-executive Director
Appointed to the Board: May 2008
Resigned from the Board: 31 December
2015
Skills and experience: Safra has a background in
international business leadership, having helped transform
Oracle into the largest producer of business management
software and the world’s leading supplier of software for
information management.
Current appointments include: Safra is joint Chief
Executive Officer of Oracle Corporation.
Secretary
Ben Mathews, 49
Group Company Secretary
Ben joined HSBC in June 2013 and became Group Company
Secretary in July 2013. He is a Fellow of the Institute of
Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. Former
appointments include: Group Company Secretary of
Rio Tinto plc and of BG Group plc.
Group Managing Directors
Mohammad Al Tuwaijri, 49
Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive, HSBC Bank Middle East
Limited
Mohammad joined HSBC in 2010 and became a Group
Managing Director on 1 February 2016. Former
appointments include: Group Head of Treasury and Head
of Risk Management at HSBC associate The Saudi British
Bank and Country Head of Saudi Arabia at JP Morgan
Chase.
Samir Assaf, 55
Chief Executive, Global Banking and Markets
Samir joined HSBC in 1994 and became a Group Managing
Director in 2011. He is Chairman and non-executive
director of HSBC France, a director of HSBC Trinkaus &
Burkhardt AG and of HSBC Bank plc. He is Chairman of the
Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA). Former
appointments include: director of HSBC Global Asset
Management Limited and of HSBC Bank Egypt S.A.E.; Head
of Global Markets and Head of Global Markets for Europe,
Middle East and Africa.
Peter Boyles, 60
Chief Executive of Global Private Banking
Peter joined HSBC in 1975 and became a Group Managing
Director in 2013. He is Chairman of HSBC Private Bank
(Monaco) SA and was appointed a director of HSBC Global
Asset Management Limited on 26 March 2015. Former
appointments include: Chief Executive of HSBC France and
Continental Europe and a director of HSBC Bank plc; HSBC
Bank Malta p.l.c.; and of HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG.
Patrick Burke, 54
President and Chief Executive of HSBC US
Patrick joined HSBC in 1989 and became a Group Managing
Director on 1 August 2015. He is Chairman of HSBC Bank
USA, N.A., HSBC Finance Corporation, HSBC USA Inc. and
HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) Inc.