Event Details
November 19, 2025
Description
A 'bruising' Barclays shareholders' annual meeting where shareholder Michael Mason-Mahon called for CEO Jes Staley to resign.
Participants (3)
| Name | Type | Mentions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Mason-Mahon | person | 12 | View Entity |
| Shareholders | person | 6 | View Entity |
| Jes Staley | person | 93 | View Entity |
Source Documents (2)
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This document, labeled as an exhibit for a House Oversight committee, describes a prank email sent to Barclays CEO Jes Staley. The email, sent on a Wednesday evening from a fake Gmail account, impersonated Barclays' chairman John McFarlane and had the subject line "The fool doth think he is wise." The message mocked a shareholder who had called for Staley's resignation earlier that day and falsely reassured Staley his position was secure.
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This document describes an incident where Jes Staley, the CEO of Barclays, received a prank email on a Wednesday evening after a contentious shareholders' meeting. The email, which Staley believed was from his chairman John McFarlane, had the subject line “The fool doth think he is wise” and was actually sent by a prankster using a Gmail account to impersonate McFarlane.
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Jes Staley sent an email to John McFarlane with the subject 'RE: The fool doth think he is wise', thanking him for 'sharing the foxhole'.
2017-05-10
An email prank was perpetrated against Barclays CEO Jes Staley by an individual impersonating Chairman John McFarlane.
2017-05-10 • Email
Jes Staley was heavily criticized for his attempt to unmask a whistleblower.
2017-05-10
An email prankster successfully impersonated Barclays Chairman John McFarlane and engaged in a conversation with Barclays CEO Jes Staley, who seemed unaware it was a hoax. The exchange was later made public.
2017-05-10 • Email
Jes Staley sent an email to John McFarlane with cryptic content suggesting a shared struggle ('foxhole', 'we fight on').
2017-05-10
An event where John McFarlane publicly or internally defended Jes Staley from criticism. Staley refers to it as 'You came to my defense today,' and McFarlane mentions having 'ceased the rally for you [sic] head today.'
2017-05-10 • Unknown, likely related to Barclays in London
Jes Staley, CEO of Barclays, was engaged in an email exchange with an online prankster who was impersonating John McFarlane, the Chairman of Barclays. The prankster offered support and sent a cryptic poem, to which Staley replied.
2017-05-10 • Digital (Email)
An email exchange occurred where Barclays executive Jes Staley was duped by a prankster impersonating his colleague, John McFarlane. The document is labeled "[Prankster's email]", confirming the nature of the exchange.
2017-05-10
An email prank was carried out on Barclays CEO Jes Staley by an individual impersonating Chairman John McFarlane. The exchange involved multiple emails and ended with the prankster revealing the ruse via an acrostic poem.
2017-05-10 • Digital (Email)
Jes Staley was heavily criticised for his attempt to unmask a whistleblower within Barclays.
2017-05-10 • Barclays
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