Betty Brow is currently a Senior Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch, which is a company of the Bank of America.

Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Betty was the Executive Vice President and Head of the International Banking Division at the Bank of Hawaii (BOH). Due to her relationship with Chinese government officials, Betty was able to negotiate for BOH to be the first US Bank to sign a joint marketing agreement with China UnionPay, the sole bankcard association in China. She also received the Chinese government approval for BOH to be the first private organization to co-host, with the Chinese government, the China Night Business Gala during the 2011 APEC Summit held in Hawaii.

Betty’s banking career spanned over 40 years, 21 of which were in Hong Kong, where she worked, in succession, as Asia Head of Loan Syndications at Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan Chase), Asia Head of Emerging Markets at Bankers Trust (now part of Deutsche Bank) and Executive Vice President and Head of the Investment Banking Group at the International Bank of Asia (IBA). During her tenure at IBA, Betty managed a team of over 90 investment bankers and set up 11 wealth management centers, a private bank, a Unit Trust business, and was part of the senior management team that negotiated the sale of IBA to the Taiwanese Fubon Financial Group in 2004. IBA was later renamed Fubon Bank. Following the sale of IBA, Betty and her family returned to the US and settled in Hawaii in 2005.

Before embarking on her banking career, Betty worked for the US State Department at the US embassies in Moscow (1978-1980) and Beijing (1980-1982). She started her career working for the US Postal Service in New Jersey and Washington DC, as a supervisor in various mail operations, including mail processing, mail delivery and customer service, and then in the Cost Systems Analysis Division that helped to set US Postal rates.

Betty is active with the community and currently serves on a number of boards of non-profit organizations: Chinese Chamber (as Past President), Vietnamese-American Chamber (as Past President), Japan-America Society, Hawaii-Pacific Export Council (Past Vice Chair), the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS), Hawaii Chinese Civic Association, Associated Chinese University Women, and the Board of Governors of the Filipino Community Center (Filcom Center). She previously also served on the boards of the YWCA, the Girl Scouts of Hawaii, East West Center Foundation, Pacific Asian Affairs Council, the Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce, the Honolulu Festival Foundation, and as the Chair of the Advisory Board for the African-American Diversity Cultural Center.

Betty earned her B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Maryland. Born in Vietnam, Betty also lived and attended schools in India and France. She is fluent in Vietnamese and French and is conversational in Mandarin Chinese.