The class of 2000 -- where are they now? Part 2

Our look back at the region’s foremost debt capital markets bankers continues with Merrill Lynch to UBS Warburg.
June 07, 2010

MERRILL LYNCH - Sam Poon

Then Head of Asia debt capital markets, Hong Kong

Now Executive chairman, UniCredit Asia Pacific Region, Hong Kong Chairman EdExchange Honorary treasurer, English Schools Foundation, Hong Kong. 

Sam Poon has come a long way since he started his career as an office equipment marketing executive for Jardine Matheson. After joining Merrill Lynch in 1987, he returned to his native Hong Kong in 1998 and rapidly rose through the ranks to become one of its three co-heads of Asia-Pacific investment banking.

Retirement of a sort beckoned in early 2005 when, with characteristic fervour, he threw himself into life as an educator. Education has rivaled...

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