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Summary Of Senior Moves In Asia-Pacific Wealth Management – April 2026
Editorial Staff
25 June 2026
Vivian Chan, who retired at the end of June from her role as global vice chairman, private banking at Standard Chartered, had been at the bank for more than nine years. She joined the lender as region head, private banking for Greater China and North Asia in January 2017, and was promoted to her current role in October 2022. T Rowe Price appointed Shuai Shao as its head of China business. Based in Hong Kong, she reports to George Chow, head of institutional distribution for North Asia. Prior to this role, Shua Shao was head of Greater China business development at Nomura Asset Management. Newmark, a commercial real estate advisor and service provider to investors, global corporations and others, appointed Roy Ng as head of research in Hong Kong. RBC BlueBay Asset Management appointed Camilla Love as head of Australia & New Zealand to lead its distribution strategy and client engagement across the region. Based in Sydney, she reports into RBC BlueBay’s head of distribution, Anthony Pickering. Love, who has more than 20 years of investment management experience, most recently founded Alpencrest Capital. Aberdeen named Steven Maguire as chief operating and transformation officer for Asia-Pacific, joining from Prudential plc. Most recently he served as global head of technology for the technology product portfolio and held senior leadership positions spanning group strategy and business transformation. Based in Singapore, he reports to Alain Courbebaisse, COO – Investments, and Ian Macdonald, CEO, Asia-Pacific. Ohri, who is involved in strengthening Farro’s presence across the India-UAE corridor, has more than 22 years of experience across banking, private banking, and wealth management, including more than 15 years advising UHNW clients across India and international markets. HSBC appointed two senior private banking and wealth figures for the China market: Max Xu as head of international wealth and premier banking (IWPB), HSBC China, and Samuel Chen as head of private banking, HSBC China.
Lombard Odier appointed Edwin Tan, who has almost 30 years’ industry experience under his belt, in the newly-formed post as market head for Southeast Asia. Prior to this role – taking effect from mid-July – he worked at DBS as market head for Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam. He has also held senior positions at Credit Suisse, Siam Commercial Bank, Julius Baer and Deutsche Bank.
HSBC appointed one of its senior figures, Gautam Anand, as head of Global India, HSBC Private Bank. Anand joined HSBC Private Bank in December 2023 as global coordinator, Global India, Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Anand reports to Tommy Leung, head of the private bank for South Asia, and to Aladdin Hangari, head of the private bank for the MENA region and Turkey.
Citigroup appointed, former JP Morgan figure, Bhavin Shukla as managing director, head of infrastructure, investment banking for Japan, Asia North, Australia and Asia South.
Bank of Singapore made top-level appointments for its family office and wealth advisory team. They all report to Paul Chua, head of family office and wealth advisory, Bank of Singapore. Elvin Ho joined as head of family office and structuring solutions. Before this, Ho worked at JP Morgan Private Bank where he advised UHNW clients across Southeast Asia on multi-jurisdictional general taxation, estate and succession planning.
Jiawen Guo took on the newly-created role of head of family office and wealth advisory, Singapore, with responsibility for the Singapore-based wealth advisory team. She reports to Chua. Elvin Ho took on Guo’s prior role.
Christine Wong continued to lead the family office and wealth advisory team in Hong Kong, serving the bank’s domestic and Greater China markets, while Yasmine Omari leads the team in Dubai. Harry Ng was appointed senior wealth advisor, providing oversight of client relationships for the Singapore and Malaysian markets.
In other moves, Bank of Singapore appointed former Julius Baer figure Vi Sun Yang as its head private banking for the ASEAN region. Yang, who reports to the bank’s CEO, Jason Moo, was previously market head for Southeast Asia at Julius Baer.
The bank also appointed Eng Chien Chan in March as market group head for Greater China and Bernard Heng as head of customised solutions in its investment solutions group.
Muzinich & Co, a global public and private corporate credit specialist, appointed Kelly Park as head of institutional clients, South Korea. Park is based in Seoul.
RBC BlueBay Asset Management appointed Mark Baker as a product strategist, based in Hong Kong. Baker has more than 15 years of fixed income portfolio management experience across global, emerging markets and Asia bond strategies, gained from roles at Threadneedle Investments and Standard Life/Aberdeen Investments in London and Hong Kong.
HSBC appointed Desmond Kuang as chief investment officer for Asia, at the HSBC Private Bank and Premier Wealth arms. Kuang, based in Singapore, is responsible for developing regional investment strategies and themes across all asset classes for private banking and premier clients in the region, excluding Hong Kong.
Klay Group appointed Gaurav Gupta as client advisor and managing director, based in Singapore. Gupta, who reports to Arjun Anand, CEO for Asia-Pacific, has more than 21 years’ experience across private banking, investment advisory, and research. Most recently, he was an executive director at Nomura.
LaSalle Investment Management said Steve Hyung Kim was appointed as head and chief investment officer (CIO) of Asia-Pacific. Mari Nagai became CEO of Japan. Hyung Kim, who previously served as co-head and co-CIO of Asia Pacific, has 26 years of investment experience.
Kunihiko Okumura, who stepped down as co-head and co-CIO of Asia Pacific, will be leaving LaSalle on 31 October.
Barclays appointed one of its senior C-suite figures, Alexander Harrison, as interim head of its private bank in Singapore after the departure of Evonne Tan, who was named as chief executive officer of Asia Wealth at Schroders. Harrison is country CEO for Singapore and chief operating officer for Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa. He has worked at Barclays for more than 25 years in various roles. Besides his current reporting line to Jaideep Khanna, CEO Asia Pacific, Harrison will also report to Annabelle Bryde in her capacity as the head of private banking for international business for the duration of the interim arrangement.
DBS appointed Kelvin Wong as its chief sustainability officer. Based in Singapore, he took over the reins from Helge Muenkel who left the bank after relocating overseas. Wong, who joined DBS in 2016, was managing director and head of energy, renewables and infrastructure in the Institutional Banking Group.
The firm also appointed Vivian Tang as head of APAC client group. This is an expanded role for Tang, who joined Aberdeen in 2022 as head of institutional – Asia-Pacific. In other moves, Natalie Tan, head of wholesale – South-East Asia, is overseeing wholesale distribution across Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. Tina Tong, head of wholesale – Hong Kong, widened her remit to cover distribution relationships in Taiwan and cross-border China offshore business opportunities.
Vistra appointed Damian Leach in a new leadership role as its chief AI and digital officer, based in Singapore – the firm's global headquarters.
Law firm Simmons & Simmons appointed Patsy Lau to join its intellectual property offering in Hong Kong as a partner in the dispute resolution practice. Lau has more than 20 years’ experience and advises on strategy, protection, structuring, and enforcement of intricate, and trans-jurisdictional trademark portfolios.
Singapore-headquartered Farro Capital appointed Surandren Nair and Akshay Ohri as managing directors, and Neha Kothari as director. Nair, who joined with more than 30 years' experience in financial services, had served in senior roles at HSBC, JP Morgan, Bank of Singapore, and Standard Chartered. At Farro Capital, he is concentrating on Southeast Asia, providing additional coverage of the Middle East, including Dubai.
Kothari, who is helping to strengthen the firm's India-UAE corridor and global UHNWIs and family office client relationships, joined from Three Comma Capital Advisors in Dubai.