Michael Geoghegan

Michael Geoghegan CBE served as the Group Chief Executive of HSBC Group (2006 to 2010). He is the chair of Young Enterprise.

"Geoghegan joined HSBC in 1973 and has seen every financial and economic crisis since, be it in the Middle East, Latin America, the Far East or Europe. He was there when the Shah of Iran was toppled, Argentina's economy and currency blew up, the Hong Kong stockmarket went into seizure and he felt the US sub-prime crisis acutely through the bank's disastrous Household acquisition. "