Kathy Zhang – Managing Director
Kathy Zhang is a highly versatile business woman, who has combined strategic thinking, creative marketing, finance and investing, as well as effective business writing into her daily work.
Born to parents who are professors in Beijing, PRC, Kathy had lived and studied in the East (China) and West (Canada), and came to Singapore in 1995. Her academic background is in Pharmacy and Chemistry, she expanded her horizons by taking a MBA major in finance in 1998 as she grew her love for business and investing.
Kathy worked 5 years with multinational companies in Singapore, before she co-founded Financial PR in 2001.
Since then, Kathy has been the chief strategist at Financial PR. As early as 2003, she decided to differentiate Financial PR from its competitors by focusing on Strategic Investor Relations for long-term shareholder value creation.
Under her leadership, Financial PR has been at the fore front of investor relations. Financial PR was the first to co-sponsor a major industry event: the IR Magazine Conference and Award in 2005. Apart from day-to-day client servicing, over the years, Financial PR has embarked on a series of value-added services, including Straits Times Corporate Earnings; and Financial PR Corporate Day, a half yearly conference focusing on show casing new investment ideas to institutional investors. In March 2008, Financial PR organized the first mega S-chips conference for QDII funds in Pudong, Shanghai, as Kathy recognized the potential of a new breed insitutional investors - QDII funds, which are licensed by the PRC government to invest money from retail investors in China in overseas listed equities.
Kathy is a strong believer in business innovation in order to stay relevant. Her dream is to build a prestigious Asian IR brand and platform that attracts talented staff and fundamentally sound companies as Financial PR's clients.
Financial PR won the Singapore Prestigious Brand Award in 2007 and 2008.
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Mark Lee – Deputy Managing Director
Mr Mark Lee is a native Singaporean and graduated from National University of Singapore.
He had 2 years experience in wealth management with Citibank N.A, Taiwan before entering Financial PR in 2002. His extensive experience & network with the analysts and fund managers assist FPR clients in obtaining research coverage and fund managers buy-in. Mark is currently in charge of FPR Singapore operation.