People Moves
Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - Standard Chartered, DBS Group
The latest moves in wealth management across Asia-Pacific.
Standard Chartered
UK-listed bank Standard
Chartered has appointed Ravi Ramakrishnan as managing
director, market head, Global South Asian Community (GSAC),
private banking.
The firm has also appointed Sajith Menon and Benedict John as directors and relationship managers of GSAC.
Ramakrishnan will be based in Singapore, reporting to Srinivas Siripurapu, regional head, private banking, ASEAN and South Asia, and global head, GSAC. Ramakrishnan has more than 20 years of corporate and private banking experience, working at HSBC, Royal Bank of Canada and Clariden Leu in the Africa, Asia, North America and the Middle East markets. Most recently, he was managing director, market head, Middle East and Africa at DBS Private Banking.
Also based in Singapore, Menon and John will report to Vishal Jain, managing director, market head, South and South East Asia, private banking. Prior to joining the bank, both were directors in private banking at Bank of Singapore.
DBS Group
Asian financial firm DBS Group has
appointed Tham Sai Choy to the boards of the group and DBS Bank,
with effect from 3 September.
Until his retirement in 2017 as the chairman of KPMG in Asia-Pacific, he was a member of KPMG’s global board.
At various times, he was leading or participating in its committees charged with board nominations, executive compensation and risk management.
