19th Dec 2008 13:30
19 December 2008
HSBC BANK PLC - BOARD CHANGES
Dame Mary Marsh (62) has been appointed an independent non-executive Director of HSBC Bank plc with effect from 1 January 2009.
Dame Mary is Director of the Clore Social Leadership Programme. She is also a member of the National Council of the Learning and Skills Council and a Trustee of Young Enterprise. Before joining the Clore Social Leadership Programme in October 2008, she was Chief Executive of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) for eight years.
As announced in November, Charles-Henri Filippi (56), non-executive Chairman of HSBC France, is leaving the HSBC Group at the end of the year to pursue other interests in France. He has also resigned as a Director of HSBC Bank plc with effect from 31 December 2008.
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1. Biography
A biography for Dame Mary Marsh follows:
Dame Mary Marsh has been appointed a non-executive Director of HSBC Bank plc with effect from 1 January 2009.
Dame Mary is Director of the Clore Social Leadership Programme, a new initiative of the Clore Duffield Foundation. The programme's aim is to identify, develop and connect aspiring leaders in the wider third sector working for the benefit of individual people and progressive social change in communities across the UK.
Before joining the Clore Social Leadership Programme in October 2008, she was Chief Executive of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) for eight years. Before this, her career was in education. She was headteacher of two large comprehensive schools in the 1990s, the second being Holland Park School in inner London.
Dame Mary is also a member of the National Council of the Learning and Skills Council, a Trustee of Young Enterprise and a member of the State Honours Committee.
Dame Mary was born in Liverpool, England in 1946 and is a widow with four grown-up sons.
2. The HSBC Group
HSBC Bank plc is a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc, and a member of the HSBC Group. HSBC Holdings plc, the parent company of the HSBC Group, is headquartered in London. The Group serves customers worldwide from more than 9,500 offices in 85 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. With assets of US$2,547 billion at 30 June 2008, HSBC is one of the world's largest banking and financial services organisations. HSBC is marketed worldwide as 'the world's local bank'.
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