Pei-yuan Chia (賈培源; born 1939)[1] is an American banker. He worked for
Citicorp from 1974 until his retirement in 1996, and also held directorships in several other firms.
Career
Chia worked at
General Foods before joining
Citicorp in 1974.[2] From then until 1992, he held various senior management positions in Citicorp and Citibank, N.A. and was Citibank, N.A.'s senior customer contact for corporate banking activities in Asia.[3] He was promoted to head of the global consumer business in 1992, following a four-year period in which he grew Citicorp's foreign consumer banking operations by 25% annually to $300 million per year in profit.[4] He served as a director of Citicorp and Citibank, N.A., beginning in April 1993, and became vice chairman of Citicorp and Citibank, N.A., in January 1994.[3][5] He took early retirement in 1996 at the urging of then-CEO
John S. Reed.[6][7] At the time of his retirement, he was the highest-ranking
Asian American executive and corporate director in any major U.S. corporation.[8]
Chia was married to Frances T.C. Yen Chia (嚴雋荃), a classmate of his at Tunghai University and a daughter of former
President of the Republic of ChinaYen Chia-kan, from 1965 until her death in 2003.[16][17] He had three children with her: Douglas, a lawyer; Katherine, an architect; and Candice.[18][19][20] He remarried in 2005 to his
high school sweetheart Katherine "Kitty" Shen (沈君玉).[20][21]
To commemorate Frances' life, Chia endowed a garden in front of the women's dormitory at Tunghai University, which opened in November 2006.[17] He also established an
endowed professorship in marketing, the Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professorship, at the University of Pennsylvania; it has been held by
Peter Fader since 2003.[22] He was awarded an
honorary doctorate by Tunghai University in 2007.[1]
Other activities
Chia served on the Wharton Graduate Executive Board of the
University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he is a Senior Fellow of the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at the
Wharton Business School.[22] As chairman of the Chia Family Foundation, he conducts philanthropic activities benefiting various educational and medical causes, including the
Hoag Hospital Foundation.[20][23] In June 2022, Hoag named a hospital building in
Irvine, California, for Chia and his wife Shen in recognition of their philanthropy.[21]
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ab"AIG神祕華人董事長賈培源來台曝光" [Trip to Taiwan by AIG's mysterious ethnic Chinese director Chia Pei-yuan publicly exposed]. Business Today. Taiwan. November 4, 1999. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
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abc"Obituaries: Kitty S.H. Chia". McIntire, Bradham & Sleek Funeral Home. December 2, 2016.
Archived from the original on August 15, 2018. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
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ab蕭迪玉 [Hsiao Ti-yu] (June 10, 2022).
"賈培源、沈君玉 冠名Hoag醫院醫療大樓" [Chia Pei-yuan, Shen Chun-yu give their names to Hoag hospital building]. World Journal.
Archived from the original on June 11, 2022. Retrieved July 21, 2022.
^"中銀完成重組架構" [Bank of China completes structural reorganization]. Wen Wei Po. May 10, 2001. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
^"賈培源先生辭任獨立非執行董事" [Pei-yuan Chia resigns as independent non-executive director] (PDF). BOC Hong Kong (Holdings) Limited. July 14, 2003. Retrieved August 16, 2018.