The latest moves, appointments and personnel changes in the Asia-Pacific wealth management sector.

BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas has appointed Eric Tran as chief sustainability officer for global banking, Asia-Pacific. His appointment takes effect immediately.

Prior to this, Tan served as the head of sustainability for transaction banking, APAC.

For the new role, Tan reports hierarchically to Krishnan Venkatesh, head of corporate clients group, APAC, functionally to Cosmin Dragan, chief ESG transition officer, global banking, and has a dotted reporting line to Aymar de Liedekerke Beaufort, head of global banking APAC. 

Currently based in Hong Kong, Tan will move to Singapore in the second half of this year, the French bank said in a statement yesterday. 

Tan is to drive global banking APAC’s environmental, social and governance strategy, working with all business lines.
 
Sun Life Financial
Sun Life, the Canada-headquartered group, has appointed Bennet Li (pictured) as senior vice president and chief financial officer for Asia, taking effect immediately. 

Bennet Li

Li will report to Tim Deacon, executive vice president and chief financial officer, and Manjit Singh, president of Sun Life Asia. He has been interim CFO for Sun Life Asia since September 2024. He joined Sun Life in 2002 and has held various leadership positions across finance, actuarial, and group benefits and retirement services in both Asia and Canada. 

Most recently, Bennet served as vice president, head of strategic finance and country manager for mainland China.
 
Bennet will be based in Sun Life’s regional headquarters in Hong Kong.

In February, Sun Life appointed Georgina Farrell as chief human resources officer for Asia, starting in May.