DB's Pying-Huan Wang joins Swiss-Asia as Hong Kong head
Longtime PE professional Pying-Huan Wang has left the private equity group of Deutsche Bank, where she was head of investment management, to join Swiss-Asia Financial Services as Head of Infrastructure Investments. She will relocate from Zurich to run the Singapore-headquartered firm’s Hong Kong office.
Among's Wang duties at Swiss-Asia are analyzing investment opportunities, conducting due diligence and monitoring investments independently from the Fund's industrial partners. She will have an instrumental role in the firm's soon-to-be-launched infrastructure investment product, the China District Energy Fund, which aims to buy, refurbish, upgrade and expand district energy assets in Greater China together with Dalkia, a division of Veolia Environment and one of the world leading energy service providers, operators and managers of energy plants.
Prior to joining Swiss-Asia, Pying-Huan, a Swiss-born Taiwanese, was responsible for the selection of fund managers and co-investment activities globally for Deutsche Bank. Before relocating to Europe, she had been one of the original founding members of Excelsior Capital Asia and its predecessor Capital Z Asia.
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