Hana Financial Group Finalizes Recommendation of Park Seong-ho as Hana Bank President and Lee Eun-hyung as Head of Investment Banking

Final Candidates Selected by Group 임추위... Only Board Meeting and General Shareholders' Meeting Left
Hana Card, Hana Capital, and Hana Savings Bank CEOs Retain Positions

Sung-Ho Park, Candidate for CEO and President of Hana Bank

[Asia Economy Reporter Kiho Sung] Hana Financial Group announced on the 25th that it has completed the recommendation of CEO candidates for five major affiliates, including Hana Bank, Hana Financial Investment, Hana Card, Hana Capital, and Hana Savings Bank, at the Hana Bank Executive Candidate Recommendation Committee.

The new Hana Bank CEO candidate was recommended as a sole candidate, Park Sung-ho, current Hana Bank Executive Vice President of the Digital Retail Group, after multiple candidates including Park Sung-ho and Lee Seung-yeol, both current Executive Vice Presidents of Hana Bank, were recommended at the Group Executive Candidate Recommendation Committee (hereinafter Group ECC) held on the same day, followed by the Hana Bank Executive Candidate Recommendation Committee held on the same day.

Lee Eun-hyung, current Vice Chairman of Hana Financial Group, was recommended as the new CEO candidate for Hana Financial Investment.

Park, the candidate recommended as the next CEO of Hana Bank, was born in 1964, graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in Business Administration, and joined Korea Investment & Finance, the predecessor of Hana Bank. He has served as CEO of Hana Bank Indonesia, Executive Vice President of Hana Bank Asset Management Group, CEO of Hana Financial TI, and is currently serving as Executive Vice President of Hana Bank Digital Retail Group.

Park is evaluated as the best candidate to inject new vitality into the organization based on his extensive experience and excellent insight in the increasingly important fields of digital, global, and asset management amid growing domestic and international economic uncertainties and rapidly changing financial markets.

In particular, Park, who has served as CEO of Hana Bank Indonesia and Hana Financial TI, is a well-prepared bank president, and there is an expectation that his experience as a top executive will play a significant role in leading Hana Bank to become a leading bank in the future.

Eunhyung Lee, Candidate for CEO of Hana Financial Investment

Lee Eun-hyung, the next CEO candidate for Hana Financial Investment, graduated from Korea University and earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Jilin University in China. He has served as an advisory professor at Peking University in China and was Vice President of Global Strategy at Hana Financial Group in 2011.

Lee has been serving as Vice Chairman of Global at Hana Financial Group since last year. He is a global expert with extensive experience in academia and finance, fluent in five languages, possessing a global mindset, profound knowledge, and a broad global network.

Lee’s capabilities are evaluated as optimal for contributing to the global business expansion of Hana Financial Investment, laying the foundation for the company to grow newly on a global scale beyond domestic competition.

Meanwhile, Jang Kyung-hoon, current CEO of Hana Card, Yoon Kyu-sun, current CEO of Hana Capital, and Oh Hwa-kyung, current CEO of Hana Savings Bank, were recommended as CEO candidates based on their favorable management performance, making their reappointment possible.

The CEO candidates for each major affiliate of Hana Financial Group are expected to be finalized through the respective company board meetings and regular shareholders’ meetings scheduled for next month.

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