Bank J. Safra Sarasin has named Isabelle Tian as managing director and team head, client advisory. With over 15 years’ experience in the China market, she reports to Enid Yip, chief executive officer, Asia. Tian will be based in Hong Kong.

 

Tian joins J. Safra Sarasin from BNP Paribas Private Banking in Hong Kong, where she had been managing director, China market, since 2012. Before joining BNP Paribas, she was a managing director, China market at HSBC Private Bank from 2010. From 2007-2010, Tian worked in both investment banking, where she covered SOEs and private enterprises, and private banking at Credit Suisse.

 

She was director at Deutsche Bank Private Banking since 2005. Tian returned to Hong Kong from Shanghai after serving as Meespierson Private Banking of Fortis Singapore’s chief representative in Shanghai from 2004-2005, and as head of business development at Orient Securities Co. from 2000.

 

Tian obtained her MBA from Charles Stuart University in  Australia. She is a Chinese national and a native speaker of Mandarin and Shanghainese, and is fluent in English, French and Cantonese.