Singapore-based investment firm Ivanhoe Capital has appointed former Lehman Brothers bankers Jonathan Dubois-Phillips and Blake Olafson to senior roles in its corporate finance division.
Ivanhoe Capital is a principal investment company that also provides strategic and financing support to the Ivanhoe Group of companies. Dubois-Phillips will be based in Hong Kong and Olafson in Singapore. They will have a direct reporting line to Robert Friedland, founder and chief executive officer of Ivanhoe Capital.
Both Dubois-Phillips and Olafson spent eight years with Lehman's principal transactions group in Asia. Dubois-Phillips worked in Southeast Asia, Greater China and then South Korea for Lehman, then joined Nomura following the Japanese...