Irene Oh

Irene H. Oh is a senior banking executive at East West Bancorp, the holding company of East West Bank, one of the largest independent banks headquartered in California and a leading financial bridge between the U.S. and Greater China. In October 2023 she was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of both East West Bancorp and East West Bank, after having served as the company's Chief Financial Officer for more than 13 years (since 2010). As CFO she oversaw finance, accounting, treasury, and investor relations, along with specialized teams including cash management and foreign exchange operations.

Oh joined East West Bank in 2004 and rose through a series of leadership roles in accounting and corporate finance before her elevation to the CFO seat. Prior to East West, she spent about two years at Goldman Sachs and began her career in 1999 as an auditor at Deloitte & Touche in Los Angeles (with work spanning the Cayman Islands). She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). She earned a bachelor's degree from California State University, Los Angeles, and a master's degree in accounting from the University of Southern California (USC).

Beyond her operating role, Oh serves on the board of Terreno Realty Corporation (NYSE: TRNO), where she chairs the audit committee, and previously served on the board of PS Business Parks, Inc. (2021–2022). She is also Vice Chair of the board of the United Way of Greater Los Angeles and sits on its audit committee. American Banker named her one of "The Most Powerful Women to Watch" in 2022.

• No verifiable evidence was found that Irene H. Oh is an active angel investor with a personal thesis, check size, or startup portfolio. The "Angel Investor / Seed Round" designation appears to come from third-party investor-directory aggregators (e.g., Foundersuite), which frequently classify senior finance executives as "investors" based on their titles rather than documented startup deals.
• Her documented expertise and professional focus are in finance, commercial banking, and retail banking — as a bank CFO and now Chief Risk Officer.
• Her public capital-allocation and oversight work is institutional (bank finance, risk, treasury, corporate board audit committees), not startup investing.
• A founder should treat any inbound to her as a relationship with a bank executive / potential banking or corporate-finance relationship, not as an angel-check opportunity, unless direct evidence of personal investing is obtained.