Annabel Spring has a 30-year career spanning investment banking, asset management and wealth management across Australia, Hong Kong, the US and the UK. She joined Allfunds’ Board as CEO in 2025, following a distinguished career in senior leadership roles across global financial institutions.

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Prior to Allfunds, Annabel spent five years at HSBC, joining in 2019 and most recently serving as CEO of Global Private Banking and Wealth from 2020 to 2024. In this role, she was responsible for integrating and growing HSBC’s global private banking and wealth management businesses. Prior to becoming CEO, she led HSBC’s Retail Banking and Wealth Management product and strategy functions, with responsibility spanning global propositions, sustainability, customer experience, data and analytics, digital experiences and sales.

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From 2009 to 2018, Annabel was a member of the Group Executive at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, where she held a number of senior leadership positions, including Group Executive of the Wealth Management Division and Global Head of Strategy. In the latter role, she was responsible for strategy, mergers and acquisitions, government relations and communications, reporting directly to the Group CEO.

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Annabel began her career at Morgan Stanley in 1994, where she held a range of senior roles across corporate finance, capital markets, leveraged finance and treasury. From 2005 to 2009, she was Managing Director and Global Head of Firm Strategy and Execution, with responsibility for strategy and mergers and acquisitions and reporting to the CEO, Co-Presidents and Chairman.

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Alongside her executive career, Annabel has held a number of board and directorship positions, including with the Financial Services Council of Australia, Economic Development Corporation of New York, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and The Salvation Army in Australia.

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She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and Bachelor’s degrees in Law and Economics from the University of Sydney.