Description
Tommy is the only Singaporean that has ever achieved a Double First in the English Accountancy Examination for Financial Management and in the Accountancy Finals. He is also the first to qualify as a US Forensic Accountant in Singapore, a Chartered Banker, a System Auditor and a Certified Fraud Examiner.
During his early years, he has taught Financial Management in both the ACCA and the post-graduate ACCA Certification and MBA business finance for many years in Singapore and abroad. Notwithstanding the fact that he is exceedingly well known in the Financial and Economic Crime circle as a Number One Fraud Buster, his first love is Financial Management After all, the language of business is finance.
In 2005, he was appointed as Compliance Adviser to a US$25 billion Asset Management Company. In the following year he was invited to be the FEC Adviser to a European financial institution
He conducts Asset and Liability Management Executive Coaching sessions to some of the most established Financial Institutions in the region. He is also a member of The Board of Regents of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Board based in Texas, USA
Tommy created history when he was elected to the ACFE World Headquarters Board of Regents, first as a member and subsequently as its Vice Chairman. He is the only Asian that sits on the American Board of Regents.
Today, he spent a substantial amount of his time in advising financial institutions and government bodies in sound Financial Management through public speaking and private coaching His most notable accomplishment thus far is in giving the bank practitioners a firm grip on Internal Audit, Risk Management and Compliance issues. Throughout his prolific career, he has trained tens of thousands of managers in all these three areas.
For his philanthropic endeavors, he founded CSI World Headquarters in Singapore one whole year before the global financial crisis came to pass and systemic risk became a household word. He intends to build CSI World Headquarters into a global classification and certification body preventing systemic risk and using Digital Forensics as a tool in fraud investigation. For his contribution in the area of high finance, he was honoured as a course Professor of Economics by the CIOD, Shanghai, Greater China.
