Big finance leads this week’s roundup of people moves from around the region, with the asset management division of HSBC naming a new senior executive, and China Ping An Asset Management introducing its new chairman.
Also on our list this week are new hires and promotions in Hong Kong, Tokyo and New York City.
HSBC Asset Management announced this past week that it has appointed John Dewey as head of alternative solutions for its HSBC Alternatives unit. Formerly with Aviva Investors in Paris, Dewey will be based in London initially in the newly created role, where he will report to Joanna Munro, chief executive for HSBC Alternatives. With HSBC having recently expanded its asset management in Asia, the firm plans to have Dewey relocate to Singapore later this year to take on the additional role of regional head of alternatives – subject to regulatory approval.
Ping An Asset Management has won approval from China’s central bank and the China Banking Regulatory Commission to have Huang Yong begin serving as the company’s chairman as of this month. Huang is a more than 25-year veteran of Ping An Group, and in his new role will be overseeing the asset management division’s more than RMB 3.87 trillion ($609 billion) in assets. Now 52, Huang Yong had formerly served as head of Ping An Asset Management’s pension management division and is replacing Wan Fang, who is stepping down to take on a new position in the group.
Private equity real estate firm Stockbridge announced this past week that it has hired David Park, formerly a senior vice president with Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) as a managing director in its New York office. Before joining Stockbridge, Park had spent more than six years with the NPS in New York where he led real estate investment in the US for the $788 billion South Korean fund.
Wei Zhang has been promoted to principal at Blue Pool Capital in Hong Kong less than one year after joining the fund management start-up from KKR. Zhang, who had previously served as a vice president with Blue Pool, had spent more than five years on the Asia real estate team at KKR before joining the firm established by former Investor AB president for Asia, Alexander West, in April of last year.
Chieko Shinozaki has been named head of Japan real estate for mainland tech giant Lenovo, according to a LinkedIn update. Shinozaki joins Lenovo from IKEA Japan, where she had spent more than three years as real estate and development manager with the Swedish housewares retailer. The Hosei University graduate also has previous experience with Richemont, Nippon ResCap Investors and Colliers International.
Colliers announced this past week that it has hired Jazz Chow as head of valuation for its Hong Kong business, following the recent promotion of CK Lau to head of Hong Kong. Chow joins Colliers from rival property services firm CBRE where she had spent more than five years in the valuation department, where she had served most recently as a director – the same rank which she holds at Colliers. The graduate of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Canada’s Simon Fraser University also has previous experience at DTZ/Cushman & Wakefield.
Nicola Tang has joined co-living management firm Dash Living in Hong Kong as head of new projects, according to a LinkedIn update. Tang joins the venture-backed startup after more than two years at Chanco Investment Group and its Butterfly Hospitality Group hotel division. The graduate of Hong Kong Polytechnic University also has previous experience at CBRE in Hong Kong, where she served in both the capital markets and retail divisions during a five-year stint.
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