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Bugra Celik leads HSBC's digital assets and currencies work within Global Macro in Hong Kong, after previously serving as Director of Digital Assets in Global Private Banking & Wealth. A digital product professional with 16+ years across telecoms, e-commerce and financial services (Turkcell, Mox Bank, Liv. by Emirates NBD, OSL), he works on tokenization, stablecoin and CBDC initiatives, including HSBC's tokenized gold products in Hong Kong.

Chris Jones is Securities Services CIO and Head of Digital Assets Technology for MSS at HSBC, a role he has held since December 2023. He is accountable for three areas of MSS IT, HSBC's investment bank: its IT strategy, development of digital asset solutions, and the CIO function for Securities Services. His digital assets mandate spans CBDCs, stablecoins, crypto-currencies, tokenisation, and the use of smart contracts and distributed ledger technology across MSS. He led the launch of the Orion platform as part of this remit. Prior to his current title, he served as MD for MSS IT Strategy, Digital Asset Technology and acting Global CIO for Securities Services from December 2022, and before that as Head of MSS IT Strategy and Digital Assets Technology from March 2022. Earlier roles at HSBC include Head of Markets and Securities Services IT Strategy, Global Head of Digital and Data IT for Securities Services, Head of Custody IT, and Head of Architecture, Strategy and Innovation for Securities Services.

Jones co-founded Sharepeople.com, an online multi-market share trading company, during the first dot-com boom. He held the FSA-regulated position of IT Director at the firm, which was sold to American Express in 2001 for $45 million. He has worked on over $1.8 billion in technology mergers and acquisitions deals. He holds two first-class honours degrees: one in Electronic Engineering and one in Mathematics and Economics. He has spoken publicly on digital assets, including at the European Blockchain Convention 2023.

Danielle Johnson is HSBC's Global Head of Institutional Client Group within Global Banking and Markets, appointed in June 2024 and based in New York. She is responsible for strengthening coverage of institutional clients globally. She joined from Galaxy Digital, where she was Head of Global Distribution & Private Capital Markets, following senior roles at Credit Suisse and over two decades at Goldman Sachs.

Daragh Maher is Head of Digital Assets Research at HSBC, based in London. In this role he serves as a coordinator for HSBC Global Investment Research's Digital Finance theme, which examines how technology is reinventing the financial space and the way money is used. He also holds the title of Senior FX Strategist. His research output covers digital assets including Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins, and the broader question of competing visions for digital money. He has published dedicated explainers on Ethereum and its smart contract architecture, authored analysis on US crypto regulation under the Trump administration, and contributed to HSBC's nine key investment themes framework under the Digital Finance pillar. He appears regularly on HSBC's The Macro Brief podcast discussing digital assets topics, and has represented HSBC at external forums including the 89th ABM banking summit in Mexico.

Prior to his current focus on digital assets, Maher worked as a strategist at HSBC Bank Plc from 2012 to 2015, and before that served as Deputy Head of Global Foreign Exchange Strategy at Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank (UK) from 2010 to 2011. He joined HSBC Securities (USA) in September 2015. He holds an undergraduate degree from University College Dublin, awarded in 1992, and completed a Cryptocurrency certificate through MIT Media Lab in December 2024.

Diego Carrillo Santoscoy is Director – Global Lead for FinTech, Digital Assets & Currencies | CCO Global Payments Solutions at HSBC, a position he has held since January 2026. In this role, he drives strategy and risk governance at the intersection of innovation and regulation, with core expertise in designing scalable risk frameworks for digital assets, fintech clients, and global payments platforms.

Prior to his current position, Carrillo Santoscoy served as Director for Fintech Risk Management at HSBC Innovation Banking from January 2024 to January 2026, and before that as Director for Global High Risk Sectors, Wholesale at HSBC from March 2022 to January 2024. Earlier roles at HSBC include Senior Manager of Global Sector Risk Management in Commercial Banking from June 2018 to March 2022, and Regional Senior Manager, COO Commercial Banking for Latin America, based in Mexico City. He also held the position of Head of Client Intelligence at HSBC. In total, he has 15 years of experience in financial services and public policy. Outside HSBC, he served as Director for North America at the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit in Mexico, and was Head Delegate for the Mexican Delegation at the Y20 Summit in Australia. He holds an MSc with Distinction in International Strategy and Economics from the University of St Andrews, and has additional educational background from Oxford and Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University.

Jenni Himberg-Wild is a Managing Director at HSBC covering the fintech sector across EMEA. With around two decades of experience in corporate and transaction banking, she previously served as Managing Director, Head of Financial Institutions & Fintech Europe at Barclays. She is a regular speaker at industry events such as Money20/20 Europe and PAY360.

John O'Neill is Group Head of Digital Assets & Currencies at HSBC, a position he has held since May 2024. He is responsible for the bank's strategy and execution across tokenisation, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), stablecoins, and cryptocurrencies. He created HSBC Orion, the bank's institutional digital asset platform that enables financial institutions and corporations to issue digital bonds on blockchain. He also serves as a Board Member at Marketnode, a Singapore-based tokenised assets infrastructure operator, and previously served as a Board Member of HSBC Investment Bank Holdings, the business unit responsible for HSBC's fintech investments.

Prior to his current role, O'Neill was Global Head of Digital Assets Strategy within HSBC Global Banking & Markets from January 2021 to March 2023, where he developed an enterprise-wide digital assets approach for the bank. Before that, he held a Market Structure & Innovation role within HSBC Global Banking & Markets from 2015. Earlier in his career, he held multiple positions at ICE Futures Europe, formerly the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE), progressing through roles in business analysis, product management, and market development across equities and FICC, before becoming Head of the FICC business. He holds a qualification from Birkbeck, University of London (2015–2017) and studied Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Bath (1993–1998).

Josh Sadler is Global Head of Digital Asset and AI Risk at HSBC, a position he has held since September 2024. In this role, he focuses on digital assets, payments, and AI risk and regulatory matters.

Prior to joining HSBC, Sadler served as Director of Regulation at Fnality International from August 2022 to September 2024, a firm focused on wholesale payments infrastructure. Before that, he spent over eight years at the Bank of England across two roles: Manager of Payments Policy from June 2019 to August 2022, and Senior Policy Analyst in Structural Reform Policy from August 2014 to June 2019. Earlier in his career, he was an Associate at the Financial Conduct Authority from November 2010 to August 2014. His career spans approximately 18 years across central banking, financial regulation, and private sector roles in digital assets and payments. He holds a degree from the University of York.

Prashant Malik is Head of Digital Assets Technology at HSBC, where his work spans distributed ledger technology, digital assets and currencies, collateral optimisation, and quantum computing. He has published research on applying quantum and quantum-inspired computing to collateral optimisation, with a paper co-authored with colleagues appearing in IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering (2023), which examined Mixed Integer Linear Programming and Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimisation formulations for large-scale collateral allocation problems. He has also published work on post-quantum security for asset tokenisation, specifically demonstrating the use of post-quantum cryptography to distribute digital assets across distributed ledgers and to convert HSBC gold tokens into ERC-20 tokens for interoperability with other DLTs and digital wallets.

Malik holds an MBA in Strategy and Finance and is a Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect, certified in June 2021. He has spoken publicly on these topics, including at the European Blockchain Convention 2023. His technical skill set spans blockchain, tokenisation, capital markets, machine learning, and programme delivery, alongside senior stakeholder management and business transformation.

Preeti Chaturvedi is US Head of Domestic and Emerging Payments at HSBC, a position she has held since August 2023. Based in New York, her role sits within the Finance and Accounting department at the head level.

Prior to joining HSBC, Chaturvedi spent the bulk of her career at Citi. There she built a cross-functional team to create an API-based global digital infrastructure centralising payments and customer inquiry data from 90+ markets and 250+ clearing systems, resulting in the launch of Citi Payment Insights and Citi Service Insights. She devised the Citi One Receivables solution, combining Citi's network with FinTech partnerships to generate new business worth 25% of P&L. She also led the commercialisation of Citi Virtual Accounts, delivering year-on-year growth of 88% in deposits and 33% in client adoption, a product that won the Global Finance Best Virtual Accounts award. In a separate initiative, she partnered with Alibaba to build an Instant Reconciliation API to automatically reconcile incoming payments, work that earned the Adam Smith Award. She also implemented SWIFT gpi visibility into transaction cost and processing times across Citi's cross-border network, delivered via API and online portal. Earlier in her career, she partnered with the New York City Department of Finance and the Mayor's office, leading a Citi team of 80 to build a three-year roadmap to centralise receivables across 40+ city agencies and digitise tens of billions in revenue streams. Her total professional experience spans 26 years.

Sean Mullins is Global Head of Digital Assets Product, Securities Services at HSBC, appointed to the role in February 2026. Based in London, he reports to Chris Adams, Global Head of Product Solutions, Securities Services. In this capacity, he leads the strategic vision, development and commercialisation of digital assets capabilities across global markets, with a focus on building regulatory-aligned solutions spanning tokenisation, custody and distributed ledger technologies for institutional clients.

Prior to joining HSBC, Mullins spent 19 years at Northern Trust across a range of transformation and product roles. His most recent position there was Global Head of Digital Assets Product Execution within the Digital Assets and Financial Markets group, a function formed in 2022, where he led a team responsible for product management and delivery of digital assets and innovation opportunities. Earlier in his career at Northern Trust he worked across change management and product management initiatives before moving into market advocacy, innovation research and emerging technologies. He holds the BCS Business Analysis International Diploma, a Six Sigma Green Belt certification, and is a certified Scrum Master and Scrum Product Owner.

Simon Russell is HSBC's European Head of the Institutional Client Group, based in London, effective October 2025, reporting to Global ICG Head Danielle Johnson. He leads an integrated service strategy for HSBC's institutional clients across Europe. He has over 25 years of experience, joining from Standard Chartered, with prior roles at Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and J.P. Morgan.

Tugdual Chevalier is a Vice President in HSBC's Institutional Client Group within Corporate and Institutional Banking at HSBC Continental Europe, based in Paris. He works in the Financial Institutions Group coverage team serving institutional clients across banks, asset managers and fintechs.

Willem Sels is the Global Chief Investment Officer at HSBC Global Private Banking and Wealth, responsible for setting investment strategy and portfolio positioning across asset classes and geographies. He publishes quarterly investment outlooks and leads the house view on equities, fixed income, currencies, alternatives, and private markets. As of Q2 2026, he maintains an overweight position in global equities with a preference for the US and Asia, citing growth resilience, corporate earnings momentum, and AI-driven productivity gains. He favours investment-grade and emerging market bonds for income generation, holds an overweight position in gold as a tail-risk hedge, and incorporates hedge funds, private equity, private credit, and infrastructure as diversifying allocations.

Sels communicates investment views directly through Bloomberg TV and radio appearances, HSBC client publications including the monthly Investment Monthly series, and the HSBC Think Wealth CIO Exchange, a series he launched featuring conversations with chief investment officers at other institutions. His published commentary addresses geopolitical risk — including Middle East conflict and energy price volatility — tariff impacts on global growth, US equity concentration risk, and dollar dynamics. He holds native or bilingual proficiency in English, French, and Dutch, and limited working proficiency in German, and is based in London.