David Eldon

David Gordon Eldon CBE (Chinese: 艾爾敦, born 1945) is the former chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited.

He stepped down from the role on April 30, 2021 and was appointed non-executive deputy chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in June 2021.

[1] He took up his first position in Hong Kong in 1979 as Manager Special Projects in the head office of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

[2] He stepped down from the role on April 30, 2021[3] and was appointed non-executive Deputy Chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in June 2021.

He was a member of the Presidential Committee for National Competitiveness of President of South Korea Lee Myung-bak and a senior adviser to PricewaterhouseCoopers in Hong Kong and China from September 2005 until 2014.

During his seven-year tenure, Eldon steered the digital transformation of the home-grown Hong Kong company, fast-tracking online and mobile strategies as well as spearheading product diversification with the aim of deepening market penetration.