Yvonne Chia

She started working for Bank of America in the 1970s.^[2] She became Vice President of the Malaysian Bank of America and head of its marketing division. She left after working there for 18 years. She was awarded the CEO Eagle Pin, becoming the first woman in Malaysia to be awarded it.^[3] Chia became the first woman to serve as chief executive officer of a bank in Malaysia when she became CEO of RHB Bank in the 1990s. She became the CEO of Hong Leong Bank in 2003^[3] or 2004. In 2013, she was named one of Forbes Asia's "50 Businesswomen In The Mix".^[4]