Park In-gyu (Trade ’73) appointed as chairperson of DGB Financial Holdings and president of Bank of Daegu
Lee Dong-geon (Business Administration ’76) appointed as senior vice-president of Woori Bank
Senior officials in 4 major financial holdings groups, top 3 in the nation, top outside of the Seoul area
[Mar 24, 2014]
<Alumni in the finance sector>
(from left to right - Ha Chun-soo, former chairman of DGB Financial Holdings, Park In-gyu, chairperson of DGB Financial Holdings, Lee Dong-geon, senior vice=president of Woori Bank) YU (President Noh Seok-kyun) has once again shown its alumni power with senior executives in the finance sector.
First, the most celebrated case is Park In-gyu (60) who was appointed as the new and 11th president and chairman of Daegu Bank on the 21st, and the 2nd chairman of DGB Financial Holdings. Mr. Park, who is an alumnus of the YU Department of Trade class of '73, began working for Daegu Bank in 1979. He rose through the ranks becoming the director of the Seoul branch, vice-president of the strategic financial department, director (vice-president) of the marketing group, and the director (vice-president) of the support group. He is assesses to have excellent leadership and a vast human network.
The first chairperson who founded DGB Financial Holdings and the 10th president of Daegu Bank was Ha Chun-soo (60), who also graduated from the YU Department of Business Administration as the class of '72. Thus, YU alumni have been commanding DGB Financial Holdings and Daegu Bank.
Former Chairman Ha stepped down gracefully by announcing that he would resign as the chairman of DGB Financial Holdings with a month left of his tenure as well as from Daegu Bank with a year left on the 17th of last month to help foster the younger generation.
Also, on the 20th, Lee Dong-geon (56) who graduated from the YU Department of Business Administration as the class of '76 was appointed as the senior vice president of Woori Bank. The senior vice president is the 'no. 2' person who is briefed on all pending issues of the bank and the top candidate for the next president of the bank. Mr. Lee graduated from the YU Department of Business Administration and started working with Woori Bank, which was at the time called Hanil Bank, and served as the sales director and vice president of loan support department.
The alumni power of YU is already prevalent in the financial sector.
According to CEO Score, an assessment company for corporate management performance, studied 44 financial companies under the four major financial holdings companies in September of last year, and revealed that YU graduated the third most senior officials following Seoul National University and Korea University. There were nine YU alumni who accounted for a third of the senior officials of universities outside from the Seoul area. Six of them were in the Shinhan Financial group, two in Hana Financial, and one in Woori Financial.
