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Catherine Zhou

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Non Executive Director at Hang Seng Bank
📍 United Kingdom

Catherine is the Global CIO for Wealth and Personal Banking at HSBC, where she leads technology and digital product delivery across global markets. An MBA graduate from Carnegie Mellon, she has deep expertise in digital transformation, innovation, and ventures from previous leadership roles at East West Bank and PwC. Colleagues describe her as action-driven and result-oriented.

She is deeply interested in the evolution of financial services through emerging technologies and has spoken on how Web3, tokenization, and blockchain can transform customer interactions and create new products. Her focus is on innovation while ensuring regulatory alignment to make new technologies safe for consumers.

She is fascinated with data center technologies, calling them the "lifeline of a CIO, " particularly in the area of sustainable and economical power supplies.

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Non Executive Director
Job Level
Senior
Location
United Kingdom
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Digital Transformation
Her role centers on building a "digital first bank" and delivering world-class digital products and services for HSBC's 40 million wealth and banking customers.
Web3 & Tokenization
Actively discusses how technologies like tokenization and blockchain can be transformative for financial services, while making a clear distinction that "Web3 is not crypto. "
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Career

Work history

11-2024
Non Executive Director
Hang Seng Bank
11-2022
General Manager: Global CIO, Wealth and Personal Banking
HSBC
12-2020 - 2-2023
Global Head of Venture, Digital Innovation & Partnership
HSBC
12-2021
Member of the Board of Advisors
Consensys
10-2017 - 12-2020
EVP Head of Consumer Bank
East West Bank
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Education
1996 - 1998
MBA
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
1990 - 1994
MS
University of Science and Technology Beijing
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