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Overview Operating & Financial Review Corporate Governance Financial Statements Shareholder Information
Former appointments include: Managing Director
of Goldman Sachs International and chairman of
Dresdner Kleinwort Benson.
J L Thornton†, 58
Chairman of the Group Remuneration Committee.
Skills and experience: experience that bridges
developed and developing economies and the public
and private sectors; a deep knowledge of financial
services and education systems, particularly in Asia.
During his 23-year career with Goldman Sachs, he
played a key role in the firm’s global development
and was Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia.
Appointed to the Board: 2008
Current appointments include: non-executive
Chairman and a director of HSBC North America
Holdings Inc.; professor and director of the Global
Leadership Program at the Tsinghua University
School of Economics and Management; Chairman of
the Brookings Institution Board of Trustees; a non-
executive director of Ford Motor Company, News
Corporation, Inc. and China Unicom (Hong Kong)
Limited; a director of National Committee on United
States-China Relations; a Trustee of Asia Society,
China Institute, The China Foreign Affairs
University, a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations and the China Securities Regulatory
Commission International Advisory Committee.
Former appointments include: non-executive
director of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
Limited and Intel Corporation, Inc.; and President of
the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Sir Brian Williamson†, CBE, 67
Member of the Nomination Committee.
Skills and experience: extensive experience
in money and bond markets, insurance, private
equity, futures, options and commodities trading
internationally; established the London International
Financial Futures and Options Exchange and led the
Exchange’s development of its electronic trading
platform; was the first chairman of Resolution plc,
established to consolidate life assurance business in
the UK; and a member of the Guild for International
Bankers.
Appointed to the Board: 2002. Will retire from the
Board with effect from the conclusion of the 2012
Annual General Meeting.
Current appointments include: director of NYSE
Euronext.
Former appointments include: Chairman of
Electra Private Equity plc, London International
Financial Futures and Options Exchange and Gerrard
Group plc; a director of Climate Exchange plc;
Chairman and a non-executive director of Resolution
plc, a non-executive director of the Financial
Services Authority and the Court of The Bank of
Ireland.
† Independent non-executive Director
Secretary
R G Barber, 61
Group Company Secretary
Joined HSBC in 1980. Group Company Secretary
since 1986 and Company Secretary of HSBC
Holdings plc since 1990. Appointed a Group General
Manager in 2006. Chairman of the Disclosure
Committee. A member of the Listing Authority
Advisory Committee of the Financial Services
Authority and of the Primary Markets Group of
the London Stock Exchange. Fellow of the Institute
of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. Former
HSBC appointments include: Corporation Secretary
of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation Limited and Company Secretary of
HSBC Bank plc.
Adviser to the Board
D J Shaw, 65
An Adviser to the Board since 1998. A director
of HSBC Bank Bermuda Limited, HSBC Private
Banking Holdings (Suisse) SA and HSBC Private
Bank (Suisse) SA. An independent non-executive
director of Kowloon Development Company
Limited and Shui On Land Limited. A solicitor
and formerly a partner in Norton Rose.
Group Managing Directors
A Almeida, 55
Group Head of Human Resources and Corporate
Sustainability
Joined HSBC in 1992. A Group Managing Director
since 2008. Former HSBC appointments include:
Global Head of Human Resources for Global
Banking and Markets, Global Private Banking,
Global Transaction Banking and HSBC Amanah.