Rick Holliday-Smith has global executive and leadership experience in capital markets and derivatives, and a background in venture capital activities.
He was chief executive of futures and options trading firm Chicago Research and Trading, president responsible for global trading and sales at Nations Bank-CRT (a predecessor of Bank of America), and managing director of Hong Kong Bank (a wholly-owned merchant banking subsidiary of HSBC Bank) based in London.
Mr Holliday-Smith was appointed chair of Cochlear in July 2010, having joined the board in March 2005. He has been a director of Servcorp since October 1999, and is a member of Macquarie University's Faculty of Business and Economics Advisory Board.