Keynote Speakers

Dow Kim
Executive Vice President and President of Global Markets and Investment Banking
Merrill Lynch

Dow Kim is Executive Vice President of Merrill Lynch & Co. and President of Global Markets and Investment Banking. In this role, Dow shares responsibility for Merrill Lynch's sales, trading and investment banking activities worldwide with Greg Fleming.

Prior to his current position, he was head of Global Debt Markets from 2001 to 2003, with responsibility for all debt sales, trading and origination activities. Before that, he was managing director and head of the Global Enterprise Solutions Group, an integrated global derivatives and foreign exchange group from 2000 to 2001.

Dow also managed the firm's integrated fixed income business in Japan for 3 years and was a member of the Executive Management Committee of Merrill Lynch Japan, Inc.

Dow joined Merrill Lynch in 1994 to manage the Debt Derivatives Trading Desk in Japan, and subsequently served as a Managing Director and Head of Debt & Equity Derivatives there.

Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Dow worked for Chemical Bank from 1991 to 1994 in Tokyo as Head of Yen Options Trading. From 1985 to 1991, he worked for Manufacturers Hanover Bank as a credit analyst, a commercial banker and derivatives trader.

Born and raised in Korea as well as in Singapore and the U.S., Dow earned a BSE from The Wharton School in 1984. During nine years with Manufacturers Hanover/Chemical Bank, Dow took part in The Wharton Executive MBA Program and received an MBA degree in 1990. Dow also completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School in November 2000.

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