Patrick J. Burke, age 54, joined the HSBC USA, HSBC Bank USA and HSBC North
America Boards in June 2014 and is a member of the respective Chairman’s
Committee since July 2014.
He joined the HSBC Finance Board in May 2011, is also the Chairman of the HSBC
Finance Board since November 2011 and a member of its Chairman’s Committee
since July 2014. Mr. Burke was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer
of HSBC North America, HSBC USA Inc. and HSBC Bank USA, N.A. in November 2014.
Prior to this appointment, Mr. Burke was Chief Executive of HSBC Finance Corporation
from July 2010 to September 2014, with responsibility for winding down the legacy
Household consumer finance business. Prior to that he was Chief Executive of,
and has held various positions within, Card and Retail Services, the U.S. credit
card business HSBC sold to Capital One in 2012. Mr. Burke has held a variety
of strategy, finance and business roles during his career in the US, UK and
Canada. He joined the HSBC Group in 1989 and was appointed as an HSBC Group
General Manager in 2011.
Phillip D. Ameen, age 67, joined the HSBC USA and HSBC Bank USA Boards in May
2013, and is Chair of their respective Audit Committee and a member of their
respective Risk and Chairmans Committees. Since April 2012, he has served as
a member of the Boards of Directors of HSBC North America and HSBC Finance,
and as a member of their respective Audit and Risk Committees since April 2012.
Effective May 2013, Mr. Ameen was appointed Chair of the Audit Committees of
HSBC North America and HSBC Finance. He is also a member of its Chairman’s
Committee since July 2014. Mr. Ameen was appointed to the Board of Directors
of HSBC and a member of the Group Audit Committee in January 2015.
As a Certified Public Accountant with extensive financial and accounting experience,
Mr. Ameen served as Vice President, Comptroller, and Principal Accounting Officer
of General Electric Company ("GE") until March 2008. Prior to joining
GE, he was a partner in KPMG. He also has a depth of technical knowledge from
his participation in accounting standards setting. Other former appointments
include serving on the International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee
of the International Accounting Standards Board, the Accounting Standards Executive
Committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Financial
Accounting Standards Board Emerging Issues Task Force, was Chair of the Committee
on Corporate Reporting of Financial Executives International and was a Trustee
of the Financial Accounting Foundation.
Mr. Ameen is an alumnus of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and
was a Certified Public Accountant in New York and North Carolina. His experience
in the accounting profession provides him with highly relevant expertise for
insight into business operations and financial performance and reporting, which
are valuable as a member of the HSBC USA Board and Audit Committee.
Kevin M. Blakely, age 64, joined the HSBC USA, HSBC Bank USA and HSBC North
America Boards in December 2013. He is also a member of the HSBC USA, HSBC Bank
USA and HSBC North America Chairmans and Risk Committees, Chair of the Compliance
Committee and Co-Chair of the HSBC USA and HSBC Bank USA Fiduciary Committee.
Mr. Blakely is a member of the Senior Advisory Board of Oliver Wyman Group (“OWG”)
since April 2015. He also serves as a Senior Advisor to OWG’s clients
in its Financial Services group. In that capacity he focuses on assisting large
financial institutions in the areas of governance, regulatory and risk management.
Mr. Blakely has more than forty years of financial industry experience. In 2012,
Mr. Blakely established KMB Financial LLC which offers consulting and advisory
services, for commercial banks. Between 2012 and 2015 he has served as Senior
Advisor at Deloitte & Touche, LLP, in its financial institutions practice.
Previously, he was Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer for
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated from 2009 to 2011. From 2007 to 2009 he was
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Risk Management Association.
From 1990 to 2007 he held various executive positions with KeyCorp, including
Chief Risk Officer and Head of Risk Review. He began his career in 1973 with
the OCC as a Bank Regulator and Field Examiner. Before leaving the OCC in 1990
he held the position of Deputy Comptroller, Special Supervision and was Chair
of the agency’s Enforcement Review Committee.
Mr. Blakely has often been sought out as an industry expert on matters pertaining
to risk management. He has presented at numerous industry conferences, academic
forums, regulatory events and has provided banking related Congressional testimony
on several occasions.
Rhydian H. Cox, age 54, joined the HSBC USA and HSBC North America Boards in
June 2014 and is a non-voting member of the respective Compliance Committees
since July 2014. He is also a member of the HSBC Bank USA Board and a non-voting
member of its Compliance Committee since September 2014. He is a member of the
HSBC Finance Board. He serves as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk
Officer of HSBC North America, HSBC USA, HSBC Bank USA and HSBC Finance Corporation
as of October 2015. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Cox was appointed Senior
Executive Vice President and Head of Regulatory Remediation of HSBC North America,
HSBC USA Inc., HSBC Bank USA, N.A. and HSBC Finance Corporation from June 2014
to October 2015. Mr. Cox was Chief Risk Officer, Asia-Pacific from 2008 to 2014.
Prior to that he was Head of Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets in Asia-Pacific
and in Mexico. Mr. Cox joined the HSBC Group in 1984 and was appointed as an
HSBC Group General Manager in 2013.
William R. P. Dalton, age 72, joined the HSBC USA Board in May 2008. He has
been a member of the HSBC North America and HSBC Bank USA Boards also since
2008. Mr. Dalton is a member of the HSBC USA, HSBC Bank USA and HSBC North America
Audit and Risk Committees and is Co-Chair of the HSBC USA Fiduciary Committee.
He was a member of HSBC Finances Board from April 2003 to May 2008. Mr. Dalton
retired in May 2004 as an Executive Director of HSBC, a position he held from
April 1998. He also served HSBC as Global Head of Personal Financial Services
from August 2000 to May 2004. From April 1998 to January 2004 he was Chief Executive
of HSBC Bank plc. Mr. Dalton held positions with various HSBC entities for 25
years. Mr. Dalton currently serves as a director of Associated Electric and
Gas Insurance Services ("AEGIS"), AEGIS Managing Agency for Lloyds
of London Syndicate 1225 and United States Cold Storage Inc. With 52 years of
banking experience, including 12 as a bank chief executive officer, Mr. Dalton
brings banking industry knowledge and insight to HSBC USAs strategies and operations
as part of HSBCs global organization. He has held several leadership roles
with HSBC, including as Executive Director of HSBC from 1998 to 2004 and Global
Head of Personal Financial Services from 2000 to 2004. His extensive global
experience with HSBC is highly relevant as we seek to operate our core businesses
in support of HSBCs global strategy.
Nancy G. Mistretta, age 61, joined the HSBC USA, HSBC Bank USA and HSBC North
America Boards in April 2012. Ms. Mistretta is a member of the HSBC USA, HSBC
Bank USA and HSBC North America Audit Committees since April 2014. She is also
a member of the HSBC North America Nominating and Governance Committee as of
April 2012. She was previously a member of the HSBC USA, HSBC Bank USA and HSBC
North America Compliance Committees from April 2012 through April 2014.
Ms. Mistretta is a retired partner of Russell Reynolds Associates ("RRA"),
an executive search firm, where she served as a partner from February 2005 until
June 2009. She was a member of RRAs Not-For-Profit Sector and was responsible
for managing executive officer searches for many large philanthropic organizations,
with a special focus on educational searches for presidents, deans and financial
officers. Ms. Mistretta was also active in the CEO/Board Services Practice of
Russell Reynolds. Prior to joining RRA, Ms. Mistretta was with JPMorgan Chase
& Co. ("JPMorgan") and its heritage institutions for 29 years
and served as a Managing Director in Investment Banking from 1991-2005. Ms.
Mistretta has also served as Director of The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company since
2007. She is Chairperson of the Audit Committee and a member of the Finance
Committee of Scotts Miracle-Gro.
Ms. Mistrettas experience throughout her nearly 30-year career at JPMorgan,
provided her with a broad base of leadership, international, marketing/consumer
industry, retail and financial experience, including through roles as Managing
Director responsible for Investment Bank Marketing and Communications, industry
head responsible for the Global Diversified Industries group and industry head
responsible for the Diversified, Consumer Products and Retail Industries group,
is highly relevant to HSBC USAs support of HSBCs global strategy. She provides
banking industry knowledge and insight with respect to the Global Banking and
Markets businesses.
Jane C. Sherburne, age 65, joined the HSBC USA, HSBC Bank USA and HSBC North
America Boards in June 2015 and is a member of the HSBC USA, HSBC Bank USA and
HSBC North America Compliance and Risk Committees. Ms. Sherburne also serves
on the advisory board of Perella Weinberg Partners as of October 2015. In addition
she serves as an independent director of Teledyne Technologies since August
2014.
Ms. Sherburne previously served as Senior Executive Vice President and General
Counsel for Bank of New York Mellon from 2010 to 2014, with responsibility for
all legal matters as well as corporate governance, regulation and government
affairs. Ms. Sherburne was Senior Executive Vice President, General Counsel
and Corporate Secretary of Wachovia in 2008, until its merger with Wells Fargo.
Prior to that, she served as General Counsel of Citigroup’s Global Consumer
Business from 2006 to 2008, having first joined Citigroup in 2001 as Deputy
General Counsel. She was a litigation partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering,
since 1984.
During the period of 1994 to 1997, she interrupted her private law practice
to serve as Special Counsel to the President in the Clinton White House.
Ms. Sherburne is Chair of the Board of the National Women’s Law Center,
Chair of The New York City Bar Fund, a member of the Executive Committee of
the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a member of the Board
of Trustees of the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, a Trustee of The
Constitution Project, a member of the Committee for Economic Development and
a member of the American Law Institute. She also serves on the Council of the
Administrative Conference of the United States, to which she was appointed by
President Obama in July 2010.
Thomas K. Whitford, age 59, has been a member of the HSBC USA and HSBC Bank
USA Board of Directors since July 2014, the respective Chairman’s Committee
since July 2014 and is Chair of the respective Risk Committee since July 2014.
Since December 2013, Mr. Whitford has served as a member of the Board of Directors
of HSBC North America and as a member of its Compliance and Risk Committees
and has been Chair of the Risk Committee since July 2014. He is also a member
of the HSBC North America Chairman’s Committee since July 2014 and Nominating
and Governance Committee since January 2014. Mr. Whitford is also a member of
HSBC Finance’s Board since December 2013. He has also been a member of
the HSBC Finance Corporation Risk Committee since December 2013 and its Chair
since July 2014 and is a member of its Chairman’s Committee since July
2014.
Mr. Whitford retired in 2013 as Vice Chairman of PNC Financial Services Corporation
("PNC"), with responsibility for Technology and Operations, Corporate
Communications and the Regional Presidents, a position he held since 2010. Following
PNC’s acquisition of National City Corporation in December 2008, he moved
to Cleveland and was appointed Chairman of National City Bank and responsible
for PNC’s integration of National City Corporation. Mr. Whitford joined
PNC in 1983 and held leadership positions in Consumer Banking, Personal Trust,
Mutual Fund Servicing, Asset Management, and Strategic Planning. In 1997, he
was named Chief Executive Officer of PNC’s Wealth Management business.
He was named Chief Risk Officer in May 2002 and helped PNC sharpen its strategic
focus and integrated coordination of all risk management activities corporate-wide.
Mr. Whitford was named PNC’s Chief Administrative Officer in May 2007
and his responsibilities were expanded to include Corporate Communications,
Operations, Human Resources, and the company’s Regional Presidents.
Mr. Whitford has served as an Independent Trustee on the Delaware Investments
Family of Funds since January 2013. He also serves as a trustee for The Barnes
Foundation, a trustee and Audit Committee member for Longwood Gardens, as a
member of the Wharton Graduate Executive Board, and as a member of Natural Lands
Trust’s President’s Council. Mr. Whitford previously served as a
trustee for the Robert Morris University, Dance Alloy Theater and the Greater
Cleveland Partnership.
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