6:00 PM    Registration, Networking and Refreshments              
6:30 PM    Program (Theater-style Seating)
                 - Welcome by FACC President Peter J. Tucci, Esq.

Brendan McDonagh
Chief Executive Officer
HSBC North America Holdings Inc.

Group Managing Director
HSBC Holdings plc

Brendan McDonagh is Chief Executive Officer of HSBC North America Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE:HBC), one of the world's largest banking and financial services organizations. Named CEO in February 2008, McDonagh is responsible for the Group's banking and consumer finance operations in the United States and Canada. McDonagh is also a Group Managing Director for HSBC Holdings plc, appointed to this role in 2008, and is a member of the HSBC Group Management Board.    

McDonagh joined HSBC Group in 1979 as an International Manager, and has completed key assignments in Asia, the Middle East and Europe. He transferred to the United States in 2002 to run the retail and commercial banking operations for HSBC Bank USA, NA. McDonagh was appointed Chief Operating Officer of the Bank in 2004. He was appointed Chief Operating Officer for HSBC Finance Corporation in 2006, and then to Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Finance Corporation and Chief Operating Officer of HSBC - North America in February 2007, leading HSBC's consumer finance operations.

McDonagh is also an associate of the Institute of Financial Services and a fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, both UK organizations. McDonagh is active with the Chicago Regional Board of the American Ireland Fund. He is past Chairman of the Consumer Bankers Association.   

He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Trinity College, University of Dublin.  He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Business School of Trinity College.

HSBC North America Holdings Inc. HSBC North America Holdings Inc. is one of the top ten largest financial services companies in the United States.  HSBC - North America comprises all of HSBC's U.S. and Canadian businesses with assets totaling $396 billion at 30 November 2009.  The company's businesses serve North America customers in the following key areas: personal financial services, credit cards, specialty insurance products, commercial banking, private banking, and global banking and markets.