Andrew Choa 蔡永全

Andrew Choa, an international banker and professional adviser, died on May 17 in a hospital in Mount Vernon, Va. He was 76. His family said he had had vascular disease for a year.

Mr. Choa came to New York City from Hong Kong in 1945 with a scholarship to attend Fordham University. He earned a bachelor's degree there in 1949 and went to the Harvard Business School, where he received an M.B.A. in 1951. Mr. Choa became a United States citizen in 1959 by a special act of Congress in a bill introduced by John V. Lindsay, the former mayor of New York who was then a Republican congressman.

In 1967, he became president of the First National City Bank's overseas division, which handled nonbanking investments. In 1972 he became director of Citicorp Investment Bank Ltd. and led its first initiative in global investment banking. He advised two Citicorp chairmen, George Moore and Walter Wriston, in the early stages of the bank's expansion overseas.

In 1980, Mr. Choa joined Russell Reynolds Associates, an executive recruiting firm, and established its Hong Kong office as the managing director. In Hong Kong, he was chairman of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association and president of the International Rotary Club. Mr. Choa retired in 1999 and returned to New York. He is survived by his wife, France Berveiller Choa; two sons, Christopher and Gregory, both of Manhattan; a daughter, Veronique Pittman of Great Falls, Va.; and five grandchildren.

蔡寶善六子蔡永全(Andrew Choa, 1924-2000) ,哈佛商學院畢業後曾為福特基金會在印尼工作，1959年成美國公民,1960至1970年代在花旗銀行工作,參與該行海外及投資銀行業務發展,1974年曾因為當上水門事件主角司法部長John Mitchell及商業部長Maurice Stans 案的陪審員而在美國見報（見右下輯自紐約時報的圖）,1980年為獵頭公司Russell Reynolds開設香港分行。他死後哈佛香港校友會特設紀念獎學金，送本地行政人員到哈佛商學院進修。永全與法裔妻子France Berveiller所生的女兒Veronique Choa,其首仼丈夫為知名爬山紀錄片製作人David Breashears,第二任丈夫則為MTV創辦人,AOL及電台網絡Clear Channel總裁Bob Pittman。(左下圖為Veronique與Bob Pittman)

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