DBS appoints veteran banker Shee Tse Koon as Group Head of Strategy and Planning
Shee has over 22 years of banking experience honed across a range of front and back office functions, as well as stints in different regions including Asia, the Middle East and UK. A Singaporean, the early years of his career were spent in trade finance as well as corporate and institutional banking. Prior to his posting in Indonesia, he was Head of Governance (Europe, Middle East, Africa & Americas), based in the United Arab Emirates, as well as Chief Information Officer and Head of Technology and Operations for Standard Chartered in Singapore. Before this, he was the Executive Assistant to Standard Chartered’s Group Executive Director for Africa & the Middle East, based in the UK.
At DBS, Shee will report to CEO Piyush Gupta and be a member of the bank's Group Management Committee (GMC). Shee will help to develop and implement the ongoing strategy for the bank. This includes providing thought leadership and counsel to the senior leadership team on major strategic issues. He will also be instrumental in operationalising the bank's organic and inorganic initiatives.
Said DBS CEO Piyush Gupta, “Tse Koon has a broad-based international banking background, and has demonstrated through his career a tremendous ability to take on diverse roles and deliver results in both developed and emerging markets. DBS has been able to deliver consistently strong results because of strategic clarity and disciplined execution of strategy and Tse Koon’s appointment will strengthen our strategic and planning capabilities as the bank continues to entrench its leadership in Asia and shape the future of banking."
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DBS is at the forefront of leveraging digital technology to shape the future of banking, and has been named “World’s Best Digital Bank” by Euromoney. The bank has also been recognised for its leadership in the region, having been conferred “Asia’s Best Bank” by The Banker and Euromoney, and “Asian Bank of the Year” by IFR Asia. The bank has also been named “Safest Bank in Asia” by Global Finance for seven consecutive years from 2009 to 2015.
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