IBK Investment & Securities held an extraordinary shareholders' meeting and a board meeting on the 30th and appointed Vice President Choi Kwang-jin as the new CEO president.
Choi Kwang-jin, the new CEO, was born in 1965, graduated from Busanjin High School and Korea University's Department of Economics, and then obtained a master's degree in business administration at Iowa University in the United States.
He joined the Industrial Bank of Korea in 1992 and worked as a strategic planning team leader, Hanoi branch manager, investment finance manager, western regional headquarters head, and corporate investment finance (CIB) group head.
Since then, he has served as vice president of IBK Investment & Securities Management Co. and led the development of strategies to promote banking-securities synergy projects and expand the role of small and medium-sized securities firms.
IBK Investment & Securities said, "With the appointment of the new CEO, we plan to set trust with all customers as our top priority and strengthen our differentiated competitiveness based on support for small and medium-sized venture companies and financial consumer-oriented management."
Choi Kwang-jin, the new CEO, said in his inaugural address, "As the only national-affiliated securities company in Korea and a member of IBK Financial Group, we will actively contribute to financing small and medium-sized companies through productive finance," adding, "We will strive to become IBK Investment & Securities that grows together based on the trust of customers, companies, the government and shareholders."
