Equities First Holdings, a global specialist in asset-backed financing, has announced the hire of Johnny Heng as managing director and head of Singapore.
Effective immediately, Heng will be responsible for leading EquitiesFirst’s origination strategies in the market, whilst reporting to Gordon Crosbie-Walsh, CEO for Asia.
With more than 25 years of financial service experience, Heng has expertise in wealth management and investment advisory.
He was most recently chief client officer at Nomura Wealth Management, overseeing all key client relationships. Prior to this, he held senior roles in Coutts, Credit Suisse and Wah Hin & Company. Additionally, he spent more than a decade with the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation managing equities trading divisions across London, New York and Singapore.
Crosbie-Walsh says: “Understanding the unique needs of our institutional and individual partners is absolutely critical in helping them to realise their ambitions. Johnny’s global outlook and regional experience, spanning across sovereign wealth funds to family offices, makes him an ideal choice to strengthen EquitiesFirst’s capabilities in the region to meet evolving financing demands.”
