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• Lead the company’s French plant project finance with the external consultants.• Lead the insurance/risk management project regarding the French plant with the external consultant.• Formulated a series of joint venture strategies with OEMs and material suppliers from strategic alignment, capital contribution, revenue sharing and exit strategy perspectives.• Optimized the finance terms of the grant contract with the French State. • Negotiated the terms of bank loans to strike a balance between shareholders and debtors particularly on liquidation preference and valuation. Finally obtained the first-ever syndicated loan (>TWD 3bn) mandate from a leading bank in Taiwan. • Co-lead the company’s global corporate legal structure optimization with the external tax consultant.• Conducted 30+ presentations and site visits to multilateral development banks (European Investment Bank, etc.), investment bank, commercial banks, investors and the government entities (TW government, ECAs, etc.)• Created an in-house employ stock option plan (ESOP) valuation model to reflect factors such as vesting schedule, eligibility, and other economic terms in the term sheet in order to conduct the analysis on the impact of the financial statements. • Optimized the company’s policy loan/guarantee strategy (programs offered by KEXIM, JBIC, Bpifrance, MOEA and EXIM of TW, etc.) and work with the government relationship department to facilitate the financing scheme.• Initiated the company’s hedging, financial investment and credit policies with detailed risk management measures, task allocation and accounting treatment, etc.• Conducted a peer analysis to identify key success factors of CATL, LG Energy Solution, etc.

• Managed HSBC China High Yield Bond Fund and HSBC Global Income Bond Fund• Oversee the investment activities of the outsourced fund managers and formulated credit investment strategies for HSBC global team to generate alpha• Keynote speaker on HSBC annual macro house views for 300+ HSBC private banking clients to deliver my in-depth analysis on Russian-Ukraine issue and predicted that an invasion is more likely than market expected and the interest rate was too low on mid-February• Constructed and simulated a fund consisted of REITs and fixed income with the use of efficient frontier, multifactor models and VaR in order to optimize the return/risk profile

• Managed Nomura China Bond Fund• Constructed a diversified bond portfolio that consist of ~60% China credits and ~40% offshore credits with average rating at A- and yield above 4%• Analyzed EM USD high yield credits with forensic approaches in order to detect financial irregularities such as hidden debts, overstated operating cash flow and aggressive revenue recognition • Selected credits with adjusted rating agencies’ methodologies and relative value comparison• Developed FX/interest rate view and implement it into portfolio hedging or speculation strategy• Managed relationships with bond issuers, rating agencies, investment banks, international fund houses, local reporters and independent research firms• Columnist of the China Watch (陸港觀盤) in Commercial Times (工商時報) to deliver macro view on China

• Covered most Asia high yield credits and EM quasi sovereign credits • Incorporated global rating agencies’ rating methodology into my internal rating model to better reflect the creditworthiness of the bonds• Assisted in management and oversight of 3 money market funds and conducted stress testing

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Managed G7/TWD FX forward, swaps, interest rate swap and cross currency swap flow from CTBC’s clients including TSMC and Cathay Life Insurance• Proprietary trading in US Treasury Bond futures, Japan Government Bond futures, German Bund futures and China Policy Bank Bonds • Assisted in Formosa bonds’ swaption hedging/speculation

Taipei

• Managed CTBC’s commodity swaps, commodity option and futures books• Developed a capital charge minimizing system that saved NT$ 10 million and enabled traders to incorporate the capital costs based on Basel II into their strategies to optimize the total profit of the trading desks.

Taipei

• Trader on the FX Spot book that responsible for market making, client deals quotation and proprietary trading • Performed training rotation in the bank (MA Program)

Taipei

Master Of Science (M.S.), Industrial Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mathematics And Physics