Dato’ Lee Kok Kwan was the Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CIMB prior to his Board appointments. His areas of responsibilities included Treasury and Markets, the Sales and Trading businesses in interest rates, credit, foreign exchange, bonds, equity, commodities and their derivatives for the Group, fixed income investments and debt capital markets, which he developed since joining CIMB in 1996, and has since grown the businesses to be one of the largest global markets operations in ASEAN as well as corporate and transaction banking.