Who Is Antonio Horta Osorio? Credit Suisse Chairperson Creates Buzz Over Internet By Resigning All Of A Sudden

Antonio Horta Osorio is the chairman of Credit score Suisse, Switzerland’s No.2 financial institution. He’s accessible on Wikipedia as a Portuguese/British banker.

He was working as a gaggle chief govt officer (CEO) of Lloyds Banking Group (2011-2021) previous to being the chairman of Credit score Suisse.

Nonetheless, he resigned resulting from COVID violations and left the place after solely 9 months. 

He was born because the eldest son of António Lino de Sousa Horta Osório, on January 1964 in Lisbon. He was born to a household of nice students and personalities. 

Antonio Horta-Osorio’s shock departure brings an abrupt finish to the tenure of a turnaround specialist who promised to instill a tradition of private duty at Credit score Suisse after its most turbulent yr for the reason that monetary disaster https://t.co/1jfVm6XjII pic.twitter.com/eZ9hjtQuiz

— Bloomberg (@enterprise) January 17, 2022

Osorio”s father was a lawyer and nationwide desk tennis champion.

As well as, his paternal grandfather was additionally a lawyer, economist, and politician António de Sousa Horta Sarmento Osório. Not solely that his maternal grandfather is Carlos Cecilio Nunes Góis Mota, the twenty ninth president of Sporting Clube de Portugal.

He was raised together with his two sisters and one brother. 

He began his profession at a Citibank in Portugal in 1987, the place he rose to the place of vice chairman and head of Capital Markets till 1990.

Osorio’s profession makes a brand new change when he was appointed as CEO in Lloyds Banking Group on March 1, 2011. 

He served the Lloyds financial institution from 2011 to 2021.