Management team

Samir Assaf is Chief Executive of Global Banking and Markets. He is also a Group Managing Director and a member of the Group Management Board. Mr Assaf assumed these responsibilities on 1 January, 2011.

Mr Assaf joined HSBC in 2000 when the bank acquired CCF. At HSBC, he started as Head of Fixed Income Trading, Europe, and Head of Global Markets at HSBC France. In 2006, he was promoted to Head of Global Markets, EMEA, and in 2007, assumed the additional role of Deputy Head of Global Markets.

Mr Assaf became Head of Global Markets in January 2008 and a Group General Manager in May 2008. He was given management responsibility for Global Research in September 2009 and joint management responsibility for HSBC Securities Services in 2010.

He joined CCF in 1994 from Groupe Total, where he was Head of Treasury. At CCF, he was appointed Head of Markets in 1998.

Mr Assaf holds a BSc degree in Finance from L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and an MBA in Economics from La Sorbonne University.

Robin Phillips was appointed Head of Global Banking in 2006 (Co-Head of Global Banking since 1 January 2001) and as Group General Manager since June 2010. In September 2011, he was appointed as Head of Global Banking and Markets, Asia-Pacific.

Robin joined HSBC in 2004 and, prior to his appointment as Head of Global Banking, ran the Global Industrials Group. Robin was previously Head of Transport and Infrastructure at Citigroup Global Markets, and prior to that ran the Aviation/Airport team at UBS Warburg.

He has over 20 years of experience in Investment Banking and over thirteen years in Transportation, Services and Infrastructure. He has been involved in many of the leading transactions throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific; including privatisations, acquisitions, disposals and structured financings, in addition to leading client relationships and transactions in other key sectors.

Robin has a MA from Oxford University.

Kevin Adeson is Co-Head of Global Banking and Global Head of Principal Investments. He was appointed to the position in January 2011.

Kevin joined HSBC in 2006 as Global Head of Leveraged and Acquisition Finance and, prior to his appointment as Co-Head of Global Banking, was Head of Global Capital Financing. Kevin has also been Global Head of Principal Investments since April 2008.

Prior to joining HSBC, Kevin was Head of Leveraged and Acquisition Finance Europe at Morgan Stanley and a member of that firm's Global Capital Underwriting Committee. Kevin joined Morgan Stanley in 1997 from Bankers Trust, where he spent 10 years in leveraged finance and equity arbitrage.

Kevin has a BA from Bradley University.

Jose-Luis was appointed Co-Head of Global Markets with effect from 1 January 2011. HSBC's Global Markets business is one of the largest of its kind in the world with a presence in over 60 countries and territories.

Jose-Luis joined HSBC in 2004 and, prior to his appointment as Co-Head of Global Markets, was Head of Global Markets, EMEA. Before moving to London in 2010, Jose-Luis held a number of senior positions with HSBC Securities including Head of Emerging Markets, Latin America and Head of Global Markets, Americas.

Prior to joining HSBC, Jose-Luis was Head of Local Markets Trading in Latin America for Deutsche Bank New York, where he started the local bank operation in Mexico in 2000. He joined Deutsche Bank following six years with JP Morgan and seven years with Citibank.

Jose-Luis studied Economics at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico.

Spencer Lake was appointed Co-Head of Global Markets with effect from 1 January 2011. HSBC's Global Markets business is one of the largest of its kind in the world with a presence in over 60 countries and territories.

Spencer joined HSBC in 2006 and, prior to his appointment as Co-Head of Global Markets, was Global Head of Debt Capital Markets and Acquisition Finance. He was also jointly responsible for HSBC's Government Sector.

Prior to joining HSBC, Spencer had a 17-year career with Merrill Lynch in New York, Hong Kong, and London across a number of areas including real estate finance, investment banking and debt capital markets. During his career at Merrill Lynch, Spencer ran Asian debt origination, started and managed European public sector origination, managed European emerging markets asset and liability origination, corporate liability solutions, and prior to his departure, ran liability origination in the Pacific Rim (Japan, Asia-Pacific and Australasia). Prior to Merrill Lynch, Spencer worked for two years at JP Morgan in real estate investment banking.

Spencer holds a B.A. in International Finance and Marketing from Suffolk University and an M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business.

Patrick M Nolan is Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, HSBC Global Banking and Markets, Americas, a principal business line of HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE:HBC), one of the world's largest banking and financial services organizations. In this role, for both North and Latin America, Nolan is responsible for markets-related activities such as trading, balance sheet management, and capital markets; banking-related activities such as client coverage, leveraged and acquisition finance, project and export finance, and advisory services; and global transaction banking activities such as payments and cash management, alternative fund services, and corporate trust and loan agency. Nolan has oversight of HSBC Global Asset Management, the asset management arm of HSBC which operates within HSBC Global Banking and Markets. In addition, he has responsibility for the general regional management for the Global Banking and Markets business in the Americas.

Nolan has worked for HSBC since 1987 in a variety of corporate and investment banking roles in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada. His previous roles include Global Head of Credit and Lending, Global Banking; Head of Coverage Europe, Global Banking; Head of UK Corporate and Institutional Banking; and Head of HSBC's Corporate Finance and Advisory business in Canada.

He is Associate of Chartered Institute of Bankers (ACIB) qualified and holds a degree in History from the University of Manchester.

Mohammad Al Tuwaijri assumed the position of Regional Head of Global Banking and Markets and Private Banking, HSBC Group, Middle East and North Africa in June 2010. He is responsible for HSBC's Global Businesses in the MENA region.

He is a board member of :

• HSBC Saudi Arabia Limited
• The Saudi British Bank

Prior to this, Mohammad was with JP Morgan where he headed the Saudi Arabian business.

Mohammad initially joined the HSBC group in 1995 and was Group Head of Treasury, HBSC Saudi Arabia Limited, from 2004 to 2007.

Mohammad has served as an elected chairman of the Saudi Treasurers Committee: a professional body that communicates market feedback and monetary policies to the central bank. In addition, he is a member of the Saudi Management Association as well as a member of the GCC Board of Directors Institute.

Mohammad holds a MBA from KSU. His MBA thesis on capital structure and dividends policy of listed Saudi companies was published in 1997.

Starting his career as a fighter pilot, Mohammad has over 2,000 hours of flying fighter jets, was a mission leader, and received the Air Medal from the President of the United States, given by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell. He was also awarded the Rami Medal from the King of Saudi Arabia and the Liberation Medal from the Emir of Kuwait.