CIMB Group Holdings Bhd has appointed Datuk Kong Sooi Lin as CEO of CIMB Investment Bank Bhd. Lin succeeds Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Aziz, who was appointed chief executive of the CIMB Group in January 2016.

With 27 years experience in investment banking, Lin has extensive equity and debt transaction expertise. Kong joined CIMB in 1994 from Bumiputra Merchant Bankers Bhd where she was involved in debt, capital market, project financing and corporate banking transactions.