George W. Madison is Lead Independent Director of the Long-Term Stock Exchange and serves as a Non-Executive, Independent Director of HSBC North American Holdings, Inc., the U.S. intermediate bank holding company and indirect subsidiary of HSBC Holdings PLC. In that capacity, he currently serves on the audit committee and chairs its nominating and governance committee and previously served on its risk committee. 

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George is a retired partner of the global law firm of Sidley Austin, LLP, where he specialized in bank regulation and corporate governance advisory for financial services firms and technology companies. Prior to Sidley Austin, George was the U.S. Senate-confirmed and Presidentially appointed General Counsel of the United States Treasury Department under Secretary Timothy F. Geithner during the Great Financial Crisis, and a member of the board of directors of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) and the Federal Financing Bank. 

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During his 45-year legal career, George also served as the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of a $70 Billion super regional bank holding company headquartered in Detroit, and the chief legal officer of a now $1 trillion not-for-profit, financial services firm headquartered in New York. He also had been a bank transactional partner in another global law firm’s New York office.

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Formerly, George has been chairman of the board of directors of a Michigan HMO and a trustee of the board of the Henry Ford Health System, vice chairman of the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation, and a director of the Legal Aid Society, and Legal Services for New York City, among many other not-for-profit organizations. 

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George is a member of the NYC Bar Association (formerly on its executive committee), the American Law Institute, and a graduate of Columbia Law School, Columbia Business School, and NYU Stern School of Business.

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