Chief Operating Officer

Hsu-sheng has an extensive legal and finance background, having worked for over 16 years as a lawyer, investment banker and commercial banker. He started his career as a trainee solicitor with Clifford Chance and worked in London, Shanghai and Hong Kong before moving to Singapore to work for a major Japanese investment bank specializing in debt capital markets origination and execution. He later joined OCBC’s debt capital markets team and was a member of the bank’s treasury funding sub-committee as well as alternate representative of the Association of Banks of Singapore’s debt capital markets sub-committee. He later moved to financial institutions coverage and was responsible for Latam, Europe, Africa and the Middle East business. He was appointed as Head, Financial Institutions at the regional headquarters of a major Middle Eastern bank in 2019 and was subsequently appointed as Acting General Manager to manage the operations. He is now a partner and course facilitator in a private equity and educational institute specialising in sustainability and sustainable finance.

A keen sustainability proponent, Hsu-sheng has been actively involved in developing ESG frameworks and operationalising them for practical application in the office and at home. He has attended the Yale-SOM Sustainable Finance and Investment program and the SMU-GoImpact Impact Investing and Mega Trends in Sustainability program. He is a certified Green and Sustainable Finance Specialist from the Chartered Banker Institute.

Hsu-sheng holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Cambridge and a post-graduate Diploma in Singapore Law from the National University of Singapore.