Clare was appointed as Chief Executive, Asia, to Richmond Park Partners in early September 2010.

Clare previously served as Special Advisor, China to HSBC Group Chairman and MD China Strategic Development,  providing strategic and market development advice to major multinational clients and looking after senior level China relations and strategic business development for HSBC Holdings plc.

Previously, she spent five years overseeing global strategy and planning for HSBC' s foreign exchange, derivatives and debt capital markets businesses and prior to that, oversaw establishment of HSBC emerging markets debt origination platform.

Other career highlights included a period as Deputy Head of Project Finance at National Power plc, and, before she became a banker - a year at the British Embassy in Beijing.

Clare is a French and Mandarin Chinese speaker.