VTB Capital, the investment business of Russia’s VTB Group, has hired Roger Suyama as head of Indonesia corporate and investment coverage, it said in a press release. The move is part of VTB’s stated strategy to strengthen its position and further business development in the Asia-Pacific region, it said.
Suyama has extensive experience in investment banking in Asia, and in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia in particular. Between 1987 and 2009 he worked at Merrill Lynch in two periods during which he was responsible for business development in Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam. He also led Merrill Lynch’s investment banking business in...