Kerr Signs with Hana Financial Group

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:14:08 -0700

HANA FINANCIAL GROUP SIGNS LPGA SUPERSTAR CRISTIE KERR AS GLOBAL AMBASSADOR

Los Angeles, CA. February 7, 2012. Hana Financial Group, Korea’s second largest financial institution, announces it has signed LPGA professional golfer Cristie Kerr as global ambassador for the 2012 golf season. As Hana Financial Group continues to enhance its global footprint, the partnership with Kerr is designed to raise brand awareness, especially in the American sports and business community.

Hana Financial Group also announces that a Korean regulator has recently approved the institution’s purchase of Korea Exchange Bank. With the purchase, Hana Financial Group also has promoted Yong-Ro Yun to CEO of Korea Exchange Bank. Yun joined Hana Financial Group as vice chairman in 2010. Prior to that, he served as CEO of Industrial Bank of Korea.

Kerr made a special stop to Los Angeles to join Yun for the announcement on her way to Melbourne for the Australian Open, kicking off the 2012 golf season.

“We are pleased to announce our partnership with such a revered athlete as Cristie Kerr,” said Mr. Yong-Ro Yun, current vice chairman of Hanna Financial Group. He went on to say, “As Hana Financial Group continues to raise awareness of its services in the US, we are happy to have an ambassador that is so accomplished and respected in her field.”

“I am proud to represent a great corporation like Hana Financial Group, whose brand and corporate leadership stand for integrity, hard work and excellence, qualities I admire and aspire to exhibit,” said Kerr. “Hana Financial Group also has demonstrated an unwavering support for women's golf and charitable causes, making this partnership a strong fit.”

Kerr has been one of the top female golf performers and one of the most popular players on tour over the past decade. Kerr's achievements include 15 professional career wins, including two Major Championships. She rose to the #1 spot in the official world ranking in the 2010 season and has been ranked in the top ten for a remarkable 407 consecutive weeks, leading her to become the 4th highest money winner of all time in women’s professional golf.

 

Kerr partnered with local chef for a wine tasting

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:41:39 -0700

On Monday night at the ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open, Cristie Kerr partnered with local chef Ian Curley for a tasting of her wine label, Curvature. The event was held in downtown Melbourne at the restaurant The European, where Curley is an executive chef. Fellow LPGA player Lindsey Wright helped to arrange the meeting between Kerr and Curley, who are both very passionate about raising money for cancer research.

All of the proceeds from Kerr’s wine label, Curvature, go toward funding the fight against breast cancer.

“Chef Ian was very interested to hear from one of his friends and one of my mates, Lindsey Wright, about the wine,” Kerr said. “He said let’s get it over here and have a tasting and possibly carry it. We had a nice dinner there [Monday]. The food was fantastic. I am a New Yorker and I told him this was fantastic food. It was a fun time.”

The wine label is a part of a unique collaboration between Kerr and Suzanne Pride Bryan, co-owner of the Pride Mountain Vineyards. Kerr has committed her career to the cause of developing a cure for breast cancer. Having witnessed her mother, aunt and godmother battle the disease, Cristie founded Birdies for Breast Cancer, a charity that has raised several million dollars for breast cancer research and treatment. In 2010 she opened the Cristie Kerr Women's Health Center at the Jersey City Medical Center.