Wu Gang | Coats Group plc
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Wu Gang

Position

Independent Non-Executive Director

Nationality

British

Tenure

Appointed 1 July 2025

Committees

Member of Nomination Committee
Member of Remuneration Committee

Key skills and experience

  • Strong strategic and financial advisory background
  • Wealth of international experience, including in Asia and Europe

External appointments

Non-executive director of IG Group Holdings plc, Tritax Big Box REIT plc and Ashurst LLP, where Wu Gang also chairs the Risk Committee. He was a non-executive director of Laird plc prior to its takeover by Advent and served as a senior advisor at Rothschild & Co.

Wu Gang set up and ran European Corporate Finance at CITIC CLSA, the international investment banking platform of CITIC Securities in 2014. Prior to that, he led M&A Advisory and Global Industrials groups at ICBC International. He spent his earlier career at Merrill Lynch and HSBC, where he led the Asian Telecoms and Media Investment Banking Group. Wu Gang began his investment banking career at Goldman Sachs.

Qualifications

Wu Gang graduated from Fudan University, Shanghai and received a MA degree from SOAS, University of London. He obtained a MBA degree from INSEAD.