Citigroup has hired Thomas Oh to be the managing director, co-head of investment banking and Co-CEO for its Global Markets Korea Securities division. He will share his CEO position with Phillip Ham who has been promoted from his position as head of equities for Korea.
Oh joins Citi from a financial advisory firm called Asia Pacific Investment Group, where he did a lot of work for the SK group ahead of its recent troubles. Prior to that he worked for 18 years at Goldman Sachs, rising to become the bank's branch manager in Seoul. Among the deals he worked on while at Goldman were the $4 billion sovereign bond deal in 1998 and...