3rd Jan 2006 08:59
HSBC Holdings PLC03 January 2006 HSBC HOLDINGS PLC BOARD AND SENIOR MANAGEMENT CHANGES Simon Robertson (64) has been appointed a Director of HSBC Holdings plc witheffect from 3 January 2006. Mr Robertson, an independent non-executive Director, is non-executive Chairmanof Rolls-Royce Group plc, a non-executive Director of The Economist NewspaperLimited and Berry Bros. & Rudd Limited and the founder member of Simon RobertsonAssociates LLP. He is the former Chairman of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and aformer Managing Director of Goldman Sachs International. Mr Robertson is aformer non-executive Director of Inchcape plc, Invensys plc and the London StockExchange. There are no matters relating to the appointment of Mr Robertson that need to bedisclosed pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.13(2) to (6). Biographical details about Mr Robertson are attached. Sir John Kemp-Welch, an independent non-executive Director since 2000 willretire at the 2006 Annual General Meeting. Alan Jebson, an executive Director since 2000 and Group Chief Operating Officersince 2003, will also retire at the 2006 Annual General Meeting, after 28 years'distinguished service. Dyfrig John, Chief Executive designate of HSBC Bank plc, has been appointed aGroup Managing Director with effect from 6 March 2006. Note to editors: The HSBC Group Serving over 110 million customers worldwide, the HSBC Group has approximately9,700 offices in 77 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacificregion, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. With assets of US$1,467billion at 30 June 2005, HSBC is one of the world's largest banking andfinancial services organisations. HSBC is marketed worldwide as 'the world'slocal bank'. Simon Robertson Simon Robertson has been appointed to the Board as an independent non-executiveDirector of HSBC Holdings plc with effect from 3 January 2006. Mr Robertson is non-executive Chairman of Rolls-Royce Group plc and the foundermember of Simon Robertson Associates LLP. He is a Director of The EconomistNewspaper Limited and Royal Opera House Covent Garden Limited and anon-executive Director of Berry Bros. & Rudd Limited. He is Chairman of Trusteesof the Royal Academy Trust and Trustee of the Eden Project and the Royal OperaHouse Endowment Fund. He joined the Kleinwort Benson group in 1963. During his career with the group,he held the positions of Head of the Corporate Finance Division, director ofKleinwort Benson Limited and Deputy Chairman of Kleinwort Benson Group Plc,culminating in his appointment as Chairman of Kleinwort Benson Group Plc in1996, a position he held until 1997. He is a former Managing Director of GoldmanSachs International, which he joined in 1997 and from which he retired in August2005. Mr Robertson served as a non-executive Director of Inchcape plc from 1996 to2005. He was a non-executive Director of Invensys plc from 1999 to 2005, and ofthe London Stock Exchange from 1998 to 2001. Mr Robertson was educated at Eton. In 1961 and 1962 Mr Robertson trained withBanque de Neuflize, Schlumberger, Mallet in Paris, Kredietbank N.V. in Brussels,Bankhaus Merck Finck in Munich and Munchmeyer & Co. in Hamburg. He is married and has three children. In his spare time he enjoys ski-ing andwalking in the Alps. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange ENRelated Shares:
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