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Kelvin Chung

Kelvin Chung

Unconventional Financial Industry Leader / Strategist / Setup New Intiatives
Hong Kong

Summary

Experienced finance professional with a proven track record of over 25 years in the industry. Skilled in managing overall business profit and loss, developing strategic plans, and overseeing marketing and distribution of financial products. Adept at ensuring business operations compliance and control, implementing corporate governance practices, and effectively managing organizations targeting mass retail, high net worth individuals, SMEs, large corporations, and financial institutions.

Overview

35
35
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior District Director

BOC Group Life Assurance Company Ltd
10.2023 - 11.2024
  • Built an elite banker team with 12 bankers in 12 months with insurance and investment experiences
  • Leverage on BOC wide range of consumer and commercial banking services to provide one-stop financial services to target customers
  • Production started in Aug 2024 with average monthly AFYC $30,000 (7 licensed in Aug)
  • Launched team website and started ready to start high profile recruitment in Q4 2024

Multiple roles

Convoy Global Holdings Limited
05.2019 - 04.2023

Head of distribution management, alternate channel since May 2019 to Dec 2019

  • Evaluated the overall distribution effectiveness among the group companies and identified the following: - Low cross-sell ratio, Overlapping distributions, Huge opportunity to untapped the existing customers with AUM > US$1Mil
  • Proposed to setup an in-house salaried sales team to tap into these customers with product cross-sold


Managing Director, Perform Financial Planning Services Ltd (subsidiary of Convoy Global Holdings) since Jan 2020

  • In-house salaried sales team targeting the group’s existing HNW customer with all existing products
  • Developed and implemented the overall business strategies, including, development of branding & marketing strategies, recruited a team with over 20 experienced relationship managers, inhouse developed a proprietary financial planning tool


Chief business officer & ROs of the following licensed corporations since 2020

  • OnePlatform Wealth Management Limited
  • OnePlatform Asset Management Limited Group (OAM - licensed 1 & 4, and applying license 9) responsible for:
  • Drive initiative leverage on existing operations to build unique services & product platform targeting local insurance brokers, financial institutions
  • Manage the entire business operations to ensure the compliance of all regulatory requirements and regulations, and onboarding of various product providers (insurers and fund houses)


Broad of director since Jan 2021

  • To oversee the overall group business and decide critical decision



Senior Director, Bancassurance Sales, Partnership Distribution

Prudential Hong Kong Ltd
06.2017 - 03.2019
  • Key account manager to service Prudential’s Bancassurance business partner – Standard Chartered Bank
  • Manage the migration of Prudential sales team with Standard Chartered Bank in-house insurance sales team
  • Developed strategies to ensure the smoothness of the migration and minimize the business impacts
  • Internal and external stakeholders’ management to ensure effective communication among Standard Chartered bank branch sales to Hong Kong CEO and internal regional management team
  • Built up a team of business development managers and a centralized insurance case management team to strengthen support to Standard Chartered sales team, while same time to promote Prudential’s insurance products through day-to-day interactions
  • Acting Chief Partnership Distribution Officer from Apr to Dec 2018

Country Director

Western Union Business Solutions (HK)
09.2015 - 12.2016
  • Western Union Business solutions was providing FX hedging services to HK SME to mitigate the trading settlement risk
  • Successfully obtained the SFC option trading license and acted as the RO for HK operations
  • Reorganized the operations to achieve cost rationalization, improve topline performance, further improve margin by introducing option trading
  • Built up new corporate sales team to aggressive acquire SME to mid-cap corporate customers with higher ticket size
  • Diversified the business portfolio from heavily relied on RMB focused business to SME trading with other countries
  • Act as FI sales to negotiate service outsourcing to PRC banks in Shenzhen

Executive director, Treasures & Distribution, Consumer Banking Group & Wealth Management

DBS Bank (HK) Ltd
05.2013 - 08.2015
  • Leading the entire distribution network, including 33 branches with over 300 staff
  • Primarily responsible for the sales P&L and over seeing the branch sales, services, and operations
  • Facilitate the head of consumer banking to negotiate the bancassurance partnership deal with Aviva and Manulife
  • Built up the bancassurance sales team with multiple reporting lines
  • Manage direct sales team to acquire mass customer as pipeline for Treasure priority customers (AUM threshold > HK$0.5Mil)
  • Formulated strategies and operating model to systematically convert the mass affluent customers (AUM threshold >US$1Mil) to Treasure Private Client services
  • Official spokesman for the bank

District Head

Bank of China (HK) Ltd
01.2010 - 05.2013
  • Manage Kowloon Central, Kowloon South and Hong Kong Island East branch networks
  • Size from 25 to 36 branches
  • Elevated Kowloon Central Division from no.8 to no.1 ranked district in terms of revenue earning on investment and insurance sales in 1.5 year
  • Introduced the mortgage sales centralization in Kowloon Central Division with the aim to optimize the sales headcount and productivity
  • Mortgage sales headcount dropped from 35 to 22 while sales volume remained with significant improvement on application quality
  • BOC has adopted the centralization model and rolled out in the entire branch network till today

Division Director

HSBC HK PFS
12.2008 - 01.2010
  • Manage NT division
  • Reshuffle headcount to increase sales capacity and uplift overall sales performance
  • Decentralized the bank’s mortgage sales team to branches leveraged on their local network with property agents and end-users

Head of Franchise & Distribution

DBS Bank (Taiwan) Ltd
09.2007 - 12.2008
  • DBS bank acquired Bowa bank in Taiwan
  • Led the taking over and completed dual diligence of the distribution network with 500+ employees from Bowa bank
  • Assigned as Head of Franchise & distribution responsible to implement the regional Treasure Priority Banking strategies with customization for the Taiwan market
  • Successfully obtained Wealth Management license for DBS Bank Taiwan
  • Built up a new management team with local expertise by target hiring from key competitors

Various Management Roles

DBS Bank Hong Kong
10.2002 - 09.2007

District Head

  • Sep 2006 to Sep 2007

Head of Mortgage & Direct Banking

  • Jan 2003 to Sep 2006

VP, Distribution Management

  • Oct 2002 to Jan 2003


Various Management Roles

ABN Amro Bank HK
03.1999 - 10.2002

Acting Head of Consumer Bank

  • Sep 2001 to Oct 2002

Head of Sales & Distribution / Head of Consumer Finance

  • Feb 2001 to Sep 2001

VP, Sales & Distribution

  • Mar 1999 to Sep 2000

Various Roles

Standard Chartered Bank
03.1990 - 09.1998

From Retail Managerial Officer trainee to Head of Priority Banking

Education

Master of Business Administration - Technology Management

Deakin University

Post-graduation Certification - Technology Management

Deakin University

International Capital Markets Qualification - undefined

Securities Institution

Credit risk management training -

Standard Chartered Training Academy

Skills

Build up new business initiatives

Timeline

Senior District Director

BOC Group Life Assurance Company Ltd
10.2023 - 11.2024

Multiple roles

Convoy Global Holdings Limited
05.2019 - 04.2023

Senior Director, Bancassurance Sales, Partnership Distribution

Prudential Hong Kong Ltd
06.2017 - 03.2019

Country Director

Western Union Business Solutions (HK)
09.2015 - 12.2016

Executive director, Treasures & Distribution, Consumer Banking Group & Wealth Management

DBS Bank (HK) Ltd
05.2013 - 08.2015

District Head

Bank of China (HK) Ltd
01.2010 - 05.2013

Division Director

HSBC HK PFS
12.2008 - 01.2010

Head of Franchise & Distribution

DBS Bank (Taiwan) Ltd
09.2007 - 12.2008

Various Management Roles

DBS Bank Hong Kong
10.2002 - 09.2007

Various Management Roles

ABN Amro Bank HK
03.1999 - 10.2002

Various Roles

Standard Chartered Bank
03.1990 - 09.1998

Post-graduation Certification - Technology Management

Deakin University

International Capital Markets Qualification - undefined

Securities Institution

Master of Business Administration - Technology Management

Deakin University

Credit risk management training -

Standard Chartered Training Academy
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