HSBC banker killed in Alps snowboarding accident
A British banker has been killed in a snowboarding accident in the Alps.
HSBC contractor and artificial intelligence (AI) entrepreneur Stuart Thurlow, 50, was killed in the French ski resort of Avoriaz on Friday while boarding off piste.
According to his Linkedin profile, Thurlow was a senior project manager at HSBC who had been working on the creation of the new ringfenced bank, with a focus on fixed income securities, derivatives, collateral, futures, tax and asset servicing business lines.
He was also managing director of AI company Artificial Intelligence Business Solutions.
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He previously spent more than 20 years at investment bank Citi where he was a senior vice president and worked as a project manager, business manager and operations lead.
He began his career at the London Stock Exchange having been educated at the independent Colfe's School in southeast London.
An HSBC spokesperson said: “Stuart was a highly-valued member of HSBC’s global markets operations team. His loss is tragic and he will be sorely missed by his many colleagues and friends at the bank. Our thoughts are with his family.”
In February, two Barclays employees were killed in an avalanche in the Italian Alps.
Matt Ziegler, 43, an in-house lawyer at Barclays, and Katherine Clarke, 39, a director in Barclays private bank and overseas service, were among four people killed in the avalanche in Courmayeur, near Mont Blanc, on the border with France.