Pierre Goad is Group Chief Communications Officer and Group Managing Director of HSBC Holdings plc. He previously served as Group Head of Human Resources and Communications and Group General Manager and Head of Communications.He re-joined HSBC in 2011 as Co-Head of Communications from Zurich Insurance Group in Switzerland where he was Head of Corporate Communications. Mr Goad has extensive international experience and has held a series of strategy and communication roles at HSBC in London and Hong Kong, where he joined the bank in 2001.