Stephen Ezekiel

Mr Ezekiel is the Chair and CEO of Hong Kong-based private credit firm Sammasan Capital. Stephen has over 25 years of experience in leadership positions in the financial services, private equity and media/telecom sectors. Stephen serves as an Independent Board Director to luxury crystal manufacturer Baccarat S.A and is a Director of private members club 70 North. As an executive, Stephen was part of the GE Capital Asia leadership team, where Stephen was instrumental in establishing GE Capital's structured lending business in Asia. Stephen was previously the CEO of GE Capital Hong Kong and Singapore and Commercial Distribution Finance. Stephen was also the head of GE Equity Asia, GE Capital's private equity arm. Stephen founded and led the GE Capital Asia businesses focusing on leveraged and sponsor finance, corporate lending, corporate aircraft finance and commercial distribution finance (i.e. distributor, dealer and channel financing). Before 2001, Stephen was a lawyer in a variety of private practice and in-house roles in Sydney, Hong Kong and Tokyo, including working for British Telecom from 1997-2001 as lead M&A counsel for Asia. Stephen is Chair of Risk Committee and Chair of the Environmental, Social and Governance Management Committee.