{"id":17597,"date":"2021-09-20T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/09\/20\/vp-bank-in-asia-makes-two-newly-created-key-appointments-to-its-asia-management-committee\/"},"modified":"2021-09-20T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T03:30:00","slug":"vp-bank-in-asia-makes-two-newly-created-key-appointments-to-its-asia-management-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/09\/20\/vp-bank-in-asia-makes-two-newly-created-key-appointments-to-its-asia-management-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"VP Bank in Asia makes two newly-created key appointments to its Asia Management Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 20&#13;<br \/>\nSeptember 2021 &#8211;\u00a0<b>VP Bank has today announced the appointments of\u00a0Alexander\u00a0<\/b><b>Tsikouras as Chief Financial Officer &amp; Chief&#13;<br \/>\nOperating Officer Asia and Will Wang as Head of Client Solutions &amp;&#13;<br \/>\nStrategic Partnerships Asia in two newly-created roles which form part of the&#13;<br \/>\nAsia Management Committee (Asia Manco) as of 24 September 2021. Aligning with&#13;<br \/>\nVP Bank&#8217;s growth strategy in Asia, these appointments follow the recent joining&#13;<br \/>\nof two other senior executives, Pamela Hsu Phua as CEO Asia and Heline Lam as&#13;<br \/>\nChief of Staff Asia.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Through the expansion&#13;<br \/>\nof its leadership team in the region, VP Bank continues to build upon its&#13;<br \/>\nproven business model focusing on intermediaries and private banking, with the&#13;<br \/>\naim to establish VP Bank as an international Open Wealth Services pioneer. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Chief Financial&#13;<br \/>\nOfficer &amp; Chief Operating Officer Asia based in Singapore, Alexander&#13;<br \/>\nTsikouras will be responsible for driving the bank&#8217;s strategic financial and&#13;<br \/>\noperational efficiency, as well as transformation in Asia. He will report regionally to Pamela Hsu Phua&#13;<br \/>\n(CEO Asia), and functionally to Roger Barmettler (Group CFO) and Urs Monstein&#13;<br \/>\n(Group COO). Alexander has more than 20 years of experience with deep expertise&#13;<br \/>\nin business development, change and risk management, finance and strategy. Joining&#13;<br \/>\nfrom Pictet where he was Chief of Staff Asia, he holds a PhD in Finance from&#13;<br \/>\nthe University of Piraeus in Greece and a Master&#8217;s in International Accounting&#13;<br \/>\n&amp; Finance from the London School of Economics. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Head of Client&#13;<br \/>\nSolutions &amp; Strategic Partnerships Asia based in Hong Kong, Will Wang will play&#13;<br \/>\nan active role with VP Bank&#8217;s clients and strategic partners, and in identifying&#13;<br \/>\nand expanding business opportunities in this region. He will report&#13;<br \/>\nfunctionally to both Pamela Hsu Phua (CEO Asia) and Thomas von Hohenhau (Group&#13;<br \/>\nHead Client Solutions). Prior to VP Bank, Will was Managing Director and Head&#13;<br \/>\nof Investment Committee at a Hong Kong SFC regulated asset manager. He has over&#13;<br \/>\n20 years of experience in private banking from front office, investments to management&#13;<br \/>\noversight in international locations spanning across Hong Kong, Singapore and&#13;<br \/>\nSwitzerland. Currently also as Head of CAIA Association Hong Kong Chapter, Will&#13;<br \/>\nis CFA, CAIA and CMT charterholder, with MBA from University of St. Gallen in&#13;<br \/>\nSwitzerland and CEMS-Master. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pamela Hsu Phua, CEO Asia&#13;<br \/>\nof VP Bank, is delighted to welcome the new members to Asia Manco: &#8220;I am&#13;<br \/>\nexcited for what&#8217;s to come with both Will and Alexander joining our team as we&#13;<br \/>\ncontinue to work together to expand our presence in Asia. The region remains&#13;<br \/>\nabound with plenty of opportunities. With their targeted wealth management expertise,&#13;<br \/>\nthey will contribute to the successful execution of Strategy 2026 in Asia.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-09-20\/95516\/vp-bank-in-asia-makes-two-newly-created-key-appointments-to-its-asia-management-committee\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 20&#13; September 2021 &#8211;\u00a0VP Bank has today announced the appointments of\u00a0Alexander\u00a0Tsikouras as Chief Financial Officer &amp; Chief&#13; Operating Officer Asia and Will Wang as Head of Client Solutions &amp;&#13; Strategic Partnerships Asia in two newly-created roles which form part of the&#13; Asia Management Committee (Asia Manco) as of 24 September 2021. 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