VICTOR LAI
Principal Consultant

Victor has over 24 years of professional and management experience with a focus on Corporate & Governance Advisory in the capital markets sector, advising Boards and management on strategy, corporate governance and business development. His significant board advisory engagements include board governance and regulatory compliance for stock-exchange-listed issuers and large private companies.
Victor also serves as a management consultant for M&A transactions, with a focus on commercial and regulatory due diligence, arising from his experience in the Corporate Advisory sector.
Victor’s corporate governance experience in directorships of listed issuers extends across Singapore (SGX), Malaysia (Bursa) and USA (NASDAQ). In his respective independent non-executive roles as Chairman of the Board and the Audit Committee, Victor has led the various Boards and ACs towards board strategy, governance, crisis management, and regulatory compliance, amongst other business matters.
He is a faculty member of the SGX-prescribed “Board of Directors Masterclass”, a mandatory training program for directors of SGX-listed companies. He designed and trains course participants on the modules covering Corporate Governance and Risk & Audit.
Victor has extensive experience in working with the Monetary Authority of Singapore & ACRA, having served as the Country & Sector Representative for global regulatory reviews by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) relating to Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Financing-of-Terrorism (AML/CFT). He is currently a member of ACRA’s CSP Advisory Panel that drives the development of CSPs locally and internationally.






