SINGAPORE: Bank of Singapore, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp's private banking unit, announced on Tuesday changes to its senior leadership team for its family office and wealth advisory business, as it seeks to bolster its ultra-high-net-worth franchise.
Here are some details:
Elvin Ho will join the bank on May 4 as head of family office and structuring solutions, where he will lead the bank's competency and solutions centre in developing its family office offering and wealth structures particularly for its UHNW segment, as well as philanthropy.
Ho joins from JPMorgan Private Bank where he advised UHNW clients across Southeast Asia on multi-jurisdictional general taxation, estate and succession planning. He previously spent 19 years at UBS.
Jiawen Guo will meanwhile take on the new role of head of family office and wealth advisory, Singapore, where she will be responsible for the Singapore-based wealth advisory team.
The bank has appointed Harry Ng as senior wealth advisor, providing oversight of key client relationships for the Singapore and Malaysian markets.
Christine Wong continues to lead the family office and wealth advisory team in Hong Kong, focusing on the bank's domestic and Greater China markets, while Yasmine Omari leads the team in Dubai, supporting the bank's clients from Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Ho, Guo, Ng, Wong and Omari report to Paul Chua, Bank of Singapore's head of family office and wealth advisory. - Reuters
