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BlackRock hires former Westpac exec as head of wealth for APAC
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Former Westpac business division CEO Guilherme Lima joins BlackRock. BlackRock has named Guilherme Lima as its new Asia Pacific head of wealth. Mr Lima was formerly the CEO of Westpac’s business division, where he had led private banking, commercial banking and SME banking since 2019.
Prior to this, he spent more than a decade at HSBC with leadership roles in wealth, premier banking and strategy in Hong Kong, as regional head of retail banking and wealth management at HSBC Latin America in Sao Paulo, and as chief of staff to the group CEO in London. He was also formerly a partner at McKinsey in New York and Sao Paulo. Commenting on the appointment, Rachel Lord, BlackRock’s chair and head of Asia Pacific, said that the wealth market in Asia was “on the cusp of remarkable expansion and transformation”.
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