CGIF - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chief Credit - Risk Officer
Mr. Aarne Dimanlig has been with CGIF for 11 years. Before CGIF, he had 16 years of risk management and investment banking experience. His other professional experiences include appointments at Columbia University, Graduate School of Business; the International Monetary Fund; and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Mr. Dimanlig attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, for his Ph.D. in Economics. He earned a Master of Science in Industrial Economics and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics.
Job Titles:
- Vice President Operations
- Vice President for Operations
As Vice President for Operations, Mr. Anuj Awasthi oversees CGIF's guarantee operations. He was formerly a Managing Director at Societe Generale, heading the financing initiatives for the Global Markets division for ASEAN and South Asia, where he worked on developing the bank's local currency bond origination and structuring business.
Prior to that, he held various positions with Nomura, Merrill Lynch, and HSBC in a career that spans over 20 years in derivatives, hedging, balance sheet management, and local currency financing solutions for corporates and institutions in South Asia and ASEAN.
Mr. Awasthi attended Delhi University for his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical and finished his Post Graduation in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
Mr. Dong Woo Rhee is CGIF's Chief Financial Officer. He joined the group as its first treasury specialist after having extensive experience in the capital markets with a primary focus on fixed-income securities (and their derivatives) in Samsung Asset Management, Samsung Life, and Credit Suisse. With his good performance and reputation in the regional fixed-income market, he was awarded "The Most Astute G3 Bond Investor" from the 2006 Asset Benchmark Survey.
Mr. Rhee attended Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology for his Ph.D. in Finance and has published several papers associated with financial risk management and asset management, including "Strategic Asset Allocation of Credit Guarantors,". He holds both CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) and FRM (Financial Risk Manager) credentials. He is also a certified IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) Manager.
Job Titles:
- General Counsel
- Secretary of the Board
Mr. Gene Soon Park is the General Counsel and Board Secretary of CGIF. Mr. Park started his legal career as an attorney at the largest law firm in Korea (Kim and Chang), where he gained hands-on experience in capital market transactions, cross-border financial transactions, and project financing. He has served as General Counsel of Korean subsidiaries of global institutions of Lehman Brothers Securities/Bank and Citibank. He held the position of General Counsel and Board Secretary for Citibank Korea and Citigroup Korea.
During more than a decade of being in CGIF, Mr. Park covered all legal matters of bond guarantee, treasury, internal institutions, and human resources, as well as governance, and policy issues as Board Secretary, functioning as the middle office keyman.
Mr. Park attended the Law School of Seoul National University (for his Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. in banking and securities regulation), and the Law School of Stanford University (master's degree in SPILS - Stanford Program for International Legal Studies).
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Credit Guarantee and Investment Facility, a Trust Fund of the Asian Development Bank
Mr. Hongwei Wang is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CGIF. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Wang was the Deputy General Manager of the Sovereign Business Department of the Export-Import Bank of China. He was involved in the development of CGIF's legal framework, shareholding, and Board of Directors (BOD) structure in its formative years. He also made significant contributions during the negotiation and finalization of CGIF's Articles of Agreement.
Mr. Wang has over 26 years of experience in the financial industry and is well-versed in both domestic and international, commercial, and policy banking businesses. From 2015 to 2019, he served as General Manager of Chongqing Export-Import Guarantee Financing Company, one of China's most competitive guarantee companies. Prior to this position, he was the CEO of the Advisory Company of the China-Central and Eastern Europe Development Fund from 2013 to 2014, as well as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of China-ASEAN Capital Advisory Company Ltd. (China-ASEAN Development Fund), a Hong Kong-based fund management firm, from 2010 to 2012. He gained extensive managerial experience in the banking industry throughout his career, particularly in credit guarantee, investment management, corporate lending, and bond issuance, and he remains a firm believer in and is a staunch supporter of CGIF's strategic objectives.
Mr. Wang graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University with a Bachelor of Arts in English.
Job Titles:
- Corporate Planner and Head of Budget, Planning, Personnel and Management Systems ( BPPMS )
Mr. Hou Hock Lim is CGIF's Corporate Planner and Head of Budget, Planning, Personnel, and Management Systems (BPPMS). Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Lim was the General Manager of the Group Finance Division of Hong Leong Bank, one of the major banks in Malaysia. He held various senior positions in OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Bhd; Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in Melbourne, Australia doing corporate advisory work for regional mergers and acquisitions, regional restructuring, and global transaction services; Danajamin, a bond guarantor in Malaysia as the Director overseeing the functions of Finance, Treasury, Administration, and IT; and Affin Investment Bank Berhad as Chief Financial Officer.
Mr. Lim attended Monash University (Clayton) Australia for his Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting and Finance and the Harvard Business School's Senior Management Development Program. More recently, he completed a Strategic HR Management Program at the National University of Singapore. He is a qualified member of the Australian Society of CPAs and the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.
Job Titles:
- Chief Risk Officer
- Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Mitsuhiro Yamawaki is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer / Chief Risk Officer of CGIF. Prior to joining CGIF, Mr. Yamawaki worked for Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Asian Development Bank (ADB) and MUFG Bank.
Mr. Yamawaki worked as Director of the Office of Risk Management (ORM) in ADB when CGIF was established. He was involved in the risk assessment of ADB's investment in CGIF. When he was promoted to Head - ORM, he was responsible for overseeing all private sector transactions and portfolio management as well as safeguarding ADB's capital adequacy framework and all risk policies and guidelines. He also held managerial positions such as General Manager of the Investment Banking Division for the Americas at MUFG Bank, New York prior to his assignments at ADB. Mr. Yamawaki holds a Bachelor of Political Science from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan.
Job Titles:
- Internal Auditor
- Head of Internal Audit
Ms. Jackie Jeong-Ae Bang is the Head of Internal Audit of CGIF. Ms. Bang was the Senior Vice President of Singapore-based Citibank Internal Audit Department for 9 years, covering ASEAN + 3 regions along with the Indian subcontinent and Australia/New Zealand. She has over 20 years of extensive banking experience in audit, credit risk management, client relationship, and securities and funds services in Standard Chartered Bank and Citibank, Seoul and Singapore.
Ms. Bang attended Seoul National University for BA in English Language and Literature, the Graduate School of Yonsei University for MBA, and Thunderbird School of Global Management for Master of International Management. She obtained certificates for Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).