Our Wealth Team

Prior to joining DBS, Olivier was Citibank's Global Head of Operations for Private Banking. Concurrently, in his global role, he was International Head of Smith Barney's Operations.

During his 15-year tenure at Citibank, Olivier has held different business and operational positions across Europe, Latin America, Asia and North America.

Olivier's career started with BNP (Banque Nationale de Paris) Argentina where he was Director of Sovereign Debt Administration (Brady Plan).

Olivier is well versed in English, French and Spanish and has wide international exposure. His public service awards included "Singapore most supportive boss" by the Singapore Sports Council and "Singapore H.E.A.L.T.H. Leader" by the Health Promotion Board. Olivier has a "Maitrise en Droit" Master Degree in Law from the Metz University, France.

Olivier resides in Singapore with his wife and three daughters.

Lawrence has over 30 years of banking experience and he joins DBS from Julius Baer where he was most recently its managing director / senior advisor. At Julius Baer, Lawrence also headed a Senior Client Banker team and was co-head of the Product Committee and Legal & Compliance Committee. Lawrence was also involved in the setting up of the banks Advisory Excellence process, which helps to better understand the clients goals, assess their risk profile and determine the appropriate investment solutions.

Prior to Julius Baer, Lawrence was managing director of investments at Merrill Lynch, managing the portfolios of top-tier clients in South East Asia. Between 1991 and 1999, he also worked at Citibank where he was appointed as the global market manager and country head for Citibank Private Bank Singapore.

He started his banking and finance career with the Monetary Authority of Singapore as a Senior Officer.

Lawrence graduated with a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours in Economics) from the National University of Singapore in 1982.

Robert brings with him 30 years of banking experience in the US and the Greater China region in a variety of positions. Starting out his banking career in credit, Robert is not only a private banking veteran; he also has many years of experience in corporate banking.

Prior to joining DBS, Robert was Credit Suisse Clariden Leu Asset Managements Head of Market Management for China Region based in Hong Kong. In this role, he was responsible for Clariden Leus global market coverage of Hong Kong, Singapore, UK and Switzerland, as well as proposed future locations in Beijing and Shanghai.

Before Clariden Leu, Robert held many senior positions in Deutsche Bank AGs operations in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Beijing and Taiwan over a period of 15 years. His last position was the Head of Private Wealth Management (China) for Deutsche Bank AG in Shanghai from 2007 to 2009.

In his personal capacity, Robert had in the past served as an adviser to the President of CITIC Bank, Beijing. He also lectures at the Qinghua University in Beijing.

With a wealth of experience in banking in Asia, Robert was a participant of the Asian Finance and Investment Corporation. AFIC is an affiliate of Asian Development Bank, domiciled in Singapore with its regional headquarters in Manila. It seeks to assist private sector enterprises in the Asia Pacific region with its major exposure in the developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank.

Robert graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor degree in Business Administration and an MBA (Summa Cum Laude), majoring in Finance. He is a member of the Phi Lamda Honorary Fraternity.

Rebekah has more than 20 years of experience in investment management. She has managed a very broad spectrum of funds as an institutional fund manager including a seven-year stint with various established financial institutions in London, UK. After returning to Singapore, Rebekah set up a very successful bespoke portfolio management service at HSBC Private Bank, Singapore Branch where she served as the Head of Discretionary Portfolio Management for the last ten years. She also headed up the funds advisory business in HSBC Private Bank, providing strategic advice on both traditional unit trusts and alternative investments to ultra-high net-worth clients.

The discretionary portfolio management platform at DBS Private Bank has the benefit of a very structured and disciplined investment approach. At the same time, it is also very dynamic and flexible as the focus is entirely client-centric. Her investment style focuses on the selection of securities with strong cashflow generation and growth prospects to achieve steady risk-adjusted returns using a long-term investment horizon to build positions at favourable valuation levels.

Donne joined DBS in 1987 and has 24 years of treasury market and products experience. Besides driving T&M's client advisory platform to promote structured investment products to the consumer and private bank, Donne is also heading FX margin trading group servicing the high net worth trading clientele. Prior to 2002, he was with T&M's corporate advisory desk.

Donne graduated from the University of Oregon, USA in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science (cum laude) in Finance.

Adeline practiced as a wealth planner with 15 years of experience in the trust and fiduciary services industry in Singapore. She focuses on international cross border succession planning and family wealth issues.

Prior to joining DBS, she worked at Coutts Bank as a senior consultant in their Trust and Fiduciary Services department. In her earlier career, she spent 7 years at HSBC Trustee (Singapore) Limited and held various roles in trust administration and wealth planning. To date, Adeline has structured in excess of US$3 billion worth of assets.

Adeline graduated from Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor degree in Business Administration (Joint Honours in Finance and Economics). She also holds a law degree LLB (Hon.) from the University of London. Adeline is registered as a UK Society of Trust & Estate Practitioner (TEP) member.

Adeline speaks fluent English and Mandarin. She is married and enjoys travelling.