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HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Report of the Directors: Governance (continued)
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Mr Gulliver is a career banker with over 30 years’
international experience with HSBC. He has held a number of
key roles in the Group’s operations worldwide, including in
London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur and the United
Arab Emirates. He played a leading role in developing and
expanding Global Banking and Markets, the wholesale
banking division of the Group with operations in over
65 countries and territories.
† S A Catz
Age 49. President of Oracle Corporation. A non-
executive Director since 2008. Managing Director of
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette from 1997 to 1999.
Joined Oracle in 1999 and appointed to the Board of
Directors in 2001.
Ms Catz brings to the Board a background in
international business leadership, having helped transform
Oracle into the second biggest producer of management
software and the world’s leading supplier of software for
information management.
† L M L Cha, GBS (Appointed 1 March 2011)
Age 61. Non-executive Deputy Chairman of The
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
Limited. A non-executive Director with effect from
1 March 2011. A non-official member of the
Executive Council of Hong Kong SAR. Director of
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, Tata
Consultancy Services Limited and China Telecom
Corporation Limited. Chairman of the ICAC
Advisory Committee on Corruption and of the
University Grants Committee in Hong Kong. Vice-
chairman of the International Advisory Council of
the China Securities Regulatory Commission and a
Hong Kong delegate to the 11th National People’s
Congress of China. A member of the Advisory Board
of the Yale School of Management, and Millstein
Center of Corporate Governance and Performance at
Yale University and a Senior International Advisor
for Foundation Asset Management Sweden AG.
Former appointments include: non-executive director
of Bank of Communications Co., Ltd from 2006 to
19 August 2010, Baoshan Iron and Steel Co. Limited
and Johnson Electric Holdings Limited. A member
of the State Bar of California. She was awarded a
Silver Bauhinia Star in 2001 and a Gold Bauhinia
Star in 2009 by the Hong Kong Government for her
public service.
Mrs Cha has worked in the US and Asia and has
extensive regulatory and policy making experience in the
finance and securities sector in Hong Kong and mainland
China. Mrs Cha was Vice Chairman of the China Securities
Regulatory Commission (‘CSRC’) from January 2001 to
September 2004. She was appointed to the post by the State
Council and became the first person outside mainland China
to join the Central Government of the People’s Republic of
China at the vice-ministerial rank. Prior to her post at the
CSRC, Mrs Cha worked in the Securities and Futures
Commission in Hong Kong from 1991 to 2000, becoming its
Deputy Chairman in 1998.
V H C Cheng, GBS, OBE
Age 62. Chairman of HSBC Bank (China) Company
Limited and, since 21 January 2010, of HSBC Bank
(Taiwan) Limited. An executive Director since 2008
and a member of the Corporate Sustainability
Committee since 28 May 2010. Joined HSBC in
1978. Appointed a Group General Manager in 1995
and a Group Managing Director in 2005. An
independent non-executive director of Great Eagle
Holdings Limited and MTR Corporation Limited.
Vice chairman of the China Banking Association.
A member of the National Committee of the 11th
Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference
(‘CPPCC’) and a senior adviser to the 11th Beijing
Municipal Committee of the CPPCC. Ceased to
be chairman and a director of The Hongkong
and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited on
1 February 2010 and of HSBC Global Asset
Management (Hong Kong) Limited on 4 February
2010. Ceased to be a director of HSBC Bank
Australia Limited and a member of the Exchange
Fund Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong
Monetary Authority on 1 February 2010 and of
HSBC Bank (Vietnam) Limited on 11 November
2010. A non-executive director of Swire Pacific
Limited from 2005 to 2008. Awarded the Gold
Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong Government in
2005.
Mr Cheng is a career banker with extensive international
business experience particularly in Asia. Mr Cheng is Vice
President of the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers and was
chairman of the Process Review Panel for the Securities and
Futures Commission and of the Standing Committee on
Directorate Salaries and Conditions of Service of the Hong
Kong Government. Chairman of the Council of the Chinese
University of Hong Kong since October 2009. He was
seconded to the Hong Kong Government’s Central Policy Unit
from 1989 to 1991 serving as an adviser to the Governor of
Hong Kong.
† M K T Cheung, GBS, OBE
Age 63. Non-executive chairman of the Airport
Authority Hong Kong. A non-executive Director
since February 2009 and a member of the Group
Audit Committee since 1 March 2010. A non-
executive director of Hang Seng Bank Limited, HKR
International Limited and Hong Kong Exchanges
and Clearing Limited. A non-official member of the
Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region. Non-executive chairman of
the Council of the Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology. A director of The Association of
Former Council Members of The Stock Exchange
of Hong Kong Limited and The Hong Kong
International Film Festival Society Limited. Ceased
to be a non-executive director of Sun Hung Kai
Properties Limited in December 2009. Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of KPMG Hong Kong from