Sir John Bond Vodafone

Organisation

Chairman of the Vodafone Group plc. Assumed office July 2006.

Stepping down 2011 to take over at Xstrata.

Salary – Bonuses – Pension etc

Previous Jobs

Facts

About the organisation

Quotes

Chairman of the HSBC May, 1998 – May 2006.

Chief Executive Officer of HSBC, January 1993 – May 1998.

Chairman Vodafone 2006 -2012

Chairman Xstrata (Glencore) Minining and Commodities 2012

Born 24 July 1940 (age 70) Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Married to Lady Elizabeth Bond, with 3 children

Bond failed to gain admittance to Oxford University, so on leaving school he spent two years in the USA, one 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.

He was knighted in 1999 for his services to banking.

Vodafone Group plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in Newbury, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenue. It has 79,000 employees.

Xstrata/Glencore is the worlds largest mining and commodities company.

HSBC is a global financial services company and one of the world’s biggest bank.

Chairman’s Compensation for 2010 -fees earned or paid in cash £602,000.00.

At HSBC, Bond received £4.2m, including a salary and bonus package of £2.1m. His pension is worth £7.9m and he also has shares and share options worth £10.6m.

With his Vodafone salary and a small stake, he is valued at £30m.

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 aggrandisement.

Watch the interview