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Biography - Charles-Henry Filippi
Charles-Henri Filippi
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, HSBC France
Group Managing Director, HSBC Holdings plc
Charles-Henri Filippi was born in France in 1952 and was educated at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (in Paris) and at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration.
Following a number of senior appointments in the French Civil Service (1979-1987), he joined Banque Stern as a director.
He then joined CCF in 1987 as Special Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer. He was appointed Executive Vice President, Corporate Finance and Banking in 1989, then Senior Executive Vice President, and Managing Director in 1993. He became Group Executive Vice President, Head of Corporate Finance and Banking in 1995. In 1998, he was appointed Executive President and joined the Board of CCF, also becoming Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HSBC CCF Investment Bank (France).
After HSBC’s acquisition of CCF in 2000, Mr Filippi was appointed Executive Director of HSBC Investment Banking and Markets and joined the Board of HSBC Bank plc. He was appointed Group General Manager & Global Head of Corporate and Institutional Banking for HSBC Holdings in November 2001, and moved to London. He also became a member of the HSBC Group’s Executive Committee.
In May 2002, Corporate and Institutional Banking was integrated within the Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets division and, in addition to his current role, Mr Filippi took on the wider relationship banking responsibilities for the division.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HSBC France since 1 March 2004, he is a member of the Group Management Board for HSBC Holdings plc and responsible for co-ordinating HSBC Group’s strategy in the eurozone.
He is married and has four children.
Group Communications
May 2007
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