China Banking Corporation senior executive vice president and COO Romeo Uyan Jr. will replace China Bank president and CEO William Whang when the latter retires in March 2023.
Uyan joined the bank in 2014 and helped establish the China Bank Capital Corporation, which was recognized as the Best Bond Adviser-Domestic by The Asset from 2016 to 2021. He is a seasoned investment banker with more than two decades of experience in top multinational investment houses in the Asia Pacific.
Uyan concurrently sits in the boards of China Bank Capital and China Bank Securities Corporation as vice chairman, and Resurgent Capital Incorporated as chairman.
Meanwhile, under Whang’s leadership, China Bank was recognized as the 2021 Best Bank in the Philippines by The Asset. It was also the Top 4 private universal bank in the country as of the second quarter of 2022.
“The Board recognized and expressed its gratitude and appreciation to Mr. Whang for his performance, dedication and loyalty, and for providing consistent and strong leadership and stewardship towards the bank’s sustained strong growth even amid the pandemic,” China Bank said in a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange.
