Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? BlackRock, Nomura Singapore, Others

Editorial Staff

14 July 2021

BlackRock
BlackRock Real Assets, part of US-listed asset management titan a private equity investment firm in Asia, has appointed Kok-Chye Ong as managing director and head of international data centre platform investments (ex-China). Ong is based in Singapore.

Ong will lead IDC platform investments for the country outside the China region, building a professional team and platform to bolster its China platform, where Gaw Capital Partners has already committed $1.3 billion since 2019.

Before this role, Ong worked in the Keppel Group of companies for 10 years as a senior vice president and, since 2014, as the head of strategy and global investments at Keppel Data Centres, a regional data centre owner. Ong has more than 20 years of international experience in data centres, telecom and submarine cable development projects.

Ong received his bachelor of accounting degree from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and graduated from the Sloan Fellows Program at Stanford University with a master of science in management from the Graduate School of Business in 2007. He is a chartered accountant (CA) in Singapore and fellow of CPA Australia (FCPA) and a member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accounts (ISCA) and CPA Australia.