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Alan Smith
Global Head of Risk Strategy and
Chief of Staff, Global Risk, HSBC

Formidable financier Alan is responsible for Risk Appetite,
Stress Testing, Risk Governance and Model Oversight. He is
a member of the Global Risk Management Board and Group
ALM Committee, and chairs HSBC’s Global Stress Testing,
and Model Risk Oversight Committees.
Alan been with HSBC for more than 20 years in a variety
of senior finance, risk and capital management position.
Prior to his current role Alan was the bank’s Group Head of
Economic Capital from 2005-2007 and before that he was
Head of Global Finance for HSBC’s Corporate Investment
Banking and Markets Division where he was a member of
its Assets and Liability Management and Operational Risk
Management committees.
He worked with KPMG London from 1987 to 1994,
latterly within its Financial Sector Advisory practice. Alan
is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of
England and Wales. He earned his undergraduate degree in
accounting from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica
and an MBA in finance from the Cass Business School in
London, which he attended as a UK Commonwealth Scholar.
He is a member of the audit committee of the
Najoh Tita-Reid Commonwealth Secretariat and member of the finance
Chief Marketing Officer, Hero Group committee of the International Fellowship of Evangelical
Students. In 2012, he was made a Fellow of the Royal
Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturing and
Commerce.
“Nothing spurs me on more than being told I can’t do Cricket-mad Alan is a certified English Cricket Board
something,” says Najoh. From being told at 16, in her final Level 3 and in 2012 he was appointed the head coach of the
year of secondary school, that she wouldn’t be able to land an development league team at Harrow Cricket Club. He is a
internship with Procter & Gamble because she was too young playing member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
and they hired only MBAs, Najoh persisted and was recruited Last year he joined the Board of Trustees of the Global
just one year later. Association of Risk Professionals.
Najoh, who took up the position with Hero Group in August
2017, was previously UK Country Head of pharmaceutical
giant Bayer. Her new role has necessitated a relocation to
Switzerland, and although technically, being a US citizen
and not living in the UK any more, she is inelligible for
the Powerlist, we decided to keep her in because when
the judging panel sat she was still at Bayer. She has more
than 20 years’ experience as a commercial business leader
and is considered a strategic marketing master in her
field. As Vice-President Country Division UK at Bayer she
was responsible for Bayer Consumer Care, UK business,
owning P&L, managing cross functional leadership teams,
leading overall consumer care organisation and business
results. Brands under her remit included Berocca, Clarityn,
Sanatogen and Rennie. She was a member of the Bayer
Consumer Care European Leadership Team and will sit on
the Executive Board at Hero Group. Prior to this, Najoh was
general manager, Western Europe, for Merck, responsible for
the consumer care Western European business, overseeing 11
markets. Najoh had been previously responsible for Merck’s
day-to-day business operations in Latin America, Western
Europe, Mexico and Canada.
Before joining the conglomerate, Najoh was a Procter &
Gamble marketing director, responsible for African-American
marketing. She spearheaded the “My Black is Beautiful”
campaign, which debuted in 2007 and is still running today.

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