HSBC CEO Search Ending Where It Began: Signs Point to Quinn
- Previous full-time CEO Flint lasted less than 2 years
- HSBC to announce fresh business restructuring in February
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Stuck in an elevator, Noel Quinn witnessed first hand the routine travails of then-HSBC Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer John Flint: his boss was clutching a white belt and an ice bucket, equipment he’d needed to chair a management meeting while in excruciating back pain.
It was a “surreal” encounter, Quinn recalled in an internal video chronicling the life of the head honcho at a global institution with almost quarter-million employees and assets approaching $3 trillion.