Chi-Won Yoon

Chi-Won Yoon
Born	2 June 1959 South Korea
Occupation	CEO & Chairman, UBS AG Asia Pacific

Chi-Won Yoon
Hangul	윤치원
Hanja	尹致遠
Revised Romanization	Yun Chiwon
McCune–Reischauer	Yun Ch'iwǒn

Chi-Won Yoon (born 2 June 1959) is a South Korean investment banker. He holds the position of CEO and Chairman at UBS AG Asia Pacific, and is based in Hong Kong.^[1]

Career

Yoon was born in South Korea. He studied electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and went on to do an MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and also did research at NASA on satellite communications.^[2]

Yoon's career in financial services began in 1986. He worked for Merrill Lynch in New York, Lehman Brothers in New York and Hong Kong, and then joined UBS in 1997. He began to oversee Equities and Fixed Income since 2004.^{[citation needed]} In March 2008 he was named Country Head for UBS Hong Kong.^[2] He was brought in to lead Currencies & Commodities in February 2009. In June 2009 he was appointed CEO and Chairman of UBS AG, Asia Pacific in June 2009, succeeding Rory Tapner.^[1] He was made a member of the UBS Group Executive Board at that time. His role is to lead UBS' Securities business in the APAC region.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "UBS names new Asia Pacific CEO", Reuters, 2009-06-25, http://www.reuters.com/article/privateEquity/idUSHKG24840220090625, retrieved 2011-09-20 
2. ^ ^{a b} Song, Oe-dal (2008-03-02), "홍콩 금융가에 떠오른 한국계 CEO/The Korean CEO rising on Hong Kong's Finance Street", Chosun Ilbo, http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2008/03/02/2008030200827.html, retrieved 2008-11-28 

External links

• Profile on UBS' website

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Name	Yoon, Chi-Won
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Date of birth	1959
Place of birth	Korea
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