Dato’ Lee Kok Kwan was the Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CIMB prior to his Board appointments. His areas of responsibilities included Corporate Banking, Transaction Banking and Sales and Trading businesses in interest rates, credit, foreign exchange, bonds, equity, commodities and derivatives, treasury and funding 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.