Sir John Reginald Hartnell Bond (born 24 July 1941)[1] is the chairman of Swiss mining company Xstrata.
During Bond's tenure as chairman, HSBC extended its reach well beyond its major franchises in Hong Kong and Britain.
In an interview in 2005, he noted being driven more by a fear of failure, of letting down shareholders, customers and staff, rather than a sense of personal aggrandizement.
On 28 November 2005, HSBC announced that Bond would step down as chairman from May 2006, to be succeeded by the bank's CEO, Stephen Green.
It was later announced that Bond would be taking over from Lord MacLaurin as chairman of the British telecommunications company Vodafone.
Bond failed to gain admittance to Oxford University, so on leaving school he spent his gap year in the US, as an English-Speaking Union scholarship student at Cate School, near Santa Barbara, California, before being given passage on a ship from Long Beach to Hong Kong as a deck hand.