Michael Chin

Michael Chin is a seasoned investment banker and asset management professional with over 3 decades of experience, working for global financial services companies.

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Before joining Shareable Asset in Mar, 2021, Michael spent 22 years in various locations and functions in UBS AG. Michael ran UBS Asset Management Singapore as CEO and was Head of UBS Asset Management South East Asia from 2015 to 2018. He also chaired UBS Asset Management Hong Kong/Singapore Management & Risk Committee and was an integral member of UBS AM APAC Management Committee as well as UBS Group Singapore Management Committee. Prior to moving to Singapore in 2015, Michael was CEO of UBS Hana Asset Management in Korea, a joint venture with Hana Financial Group with AUM of over $20 billion.

Prior to this appointment in 2010, based in Hong Kong, Michael was responsible for managing UBS Investment Bank's Asian cash equity distribution business as Global Head of Asian Equity Sales and was a member of Global Cash Equity Management Committee. Before this role which began in 2006, he was Branch Manager and Head of Equities in Taiwan, having transferred in 2005 from his position as Branch Manager and Head of Equities in Korea for UBS Investment Bank which started in 2002. Before joining UBS in 1997, Michael held a number of positions at Lehman Brothers, Schroders and Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, Seoul and Hong Kong in investment banking and equity sales & trading. Michael graduated with a BA degree in International Relations from University of Virginia, USA.

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Michael is currently an Independent Director, BOD of Vingroup JSC, the leading Vietnamese corporate group as well as BOD of Pepper Savings Bank, the 3rd largest Savings Bank in Korea. In addition, since 2018, he also serves as BOD member of SEO-Vietnam, a non-profit organization to help Vietnamese students to learn and experience global learning and training. He was Vice Chairman of Lumen Capital Investors from 2019-2020, developing its private equity/venture capital business. He also served as an Independent Director for Kakao Bank, one of the largest mobile-only banks in the world, from 2019 to 2021.