
Dominic Ng
CEO of East West Bank
Education
- Bachelor's degree in accounting - University of Houston
Overview
Dominic Ng is a CEO of East West Bank, Inc.(EWBC)
Dominic Ng is an American banker who has been chairman and CEO of Los Angeles–based East West Bank since 1992. In 2022, Ng was appointed by the Biden administration to be a U.S. member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council.
Career :
Ng began his career as a Certified Public Accountant with Touche Ross in Houston and Los Angeles. He was the head of the China business practice in the Los Angeles office. One of his clients convinced him to head up its investment company, Seyen Investment Inc. in 1990. He helped them purchase East West Bank.
In 1991, Ng became East West Bank's third chairman, president and CEO. As CEO of East West Bank, Ng built a reputation as one of the top US bankers connecting Hollywood film studios to investors in China. In 2006, the Los Angeles Times named him as one of the 100 most powerful people in Southern California. In 2010, Forbes listed him as one of 25 notable Chinese-Americans, noting the survival of the Chinese-American bank after the 2008 financial crisis.
From 2005 to 2011, Ng served on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Los Angeles Branch.
Early Life
Ng was born in the then British Hong Kong in 1959, the youngest of 6 children. His parents had lost most of their property after the Chinese Civil War and fled from Shanghai to Hong Kong in 1949. In Hong Kong, his father operated a bus transport business while his mother ran a small business sewing school uniforms.
Ng was part of a wave of Hong Kong students who came to the United States to study in the 1970s and earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Houston. He became a United States citizen in 1988.
Career
- ast West Bank - CEO