Elvin Ho

The wealth management arm of Singapore lender OCBC, Bank of Singapore, has appointed Elvin Ho, as its head of family office and structuring solutions, effective May 4, a role in which he will lead the bank’s competency and solutions centre in developing its family office offering, wealth structures, particularly for its ultra-high-net-worth ( UHNW ) segment, and philanthropy.

Ho joins from JPMorgan Private Bank where he advised UHNW clients across Southeast Asia on multi-jurisdictional general taxation, estate and succession planning. Prior to that, he spent 19 years at UBS in senior roles spanning wealth planning, investment consulting, markets and business risk as a competency centre head.

As well, as part of the strengthened leadership structure in the team, Jiawen Guo will take on the new role of head of family office and wealth advisory, Singapore, with responsibility for the Singapore-based wealth advisory team; and Harry Ng has been appointed senior wealth adviser, providing oversight of key client relationships for the Singapore and Malaysian markets.

Ho, Guo and Ng will report to Paul Chua, the bank’s head of family office and wealth advisory.

“Ho brings extensive experience in managing the technical and industry developments that impact our clients’ planning,” Chua adds. “He is an industry veteran with deep technical competence and client experience. We have also taken the opportunity to optimize our global team structure for future growth with strong leadership to support initiatives out of our Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai hubs.”