As the Head of Investment Science at Maybank Asset Management, I work at the intersection of Quantitative and Fundamental Investing - every Quant idea must make sense from a Fundamental perspective. I lead a team of data scientists and quantitative fund managers who support the Fundamental team with quantitative insights, and manage quantitative investment strategies across global markets. Our first Quantitative fund, the Maybank All Weather Quant fund, was awarded a five star rating by Morningstar after completing our 3 year track record, and is ranked in the top 3% of the peer group in 2023. In 2021, we launched Singapore's first Islamic mixed asset fund, combining Islamic Quant Equities with Fundamental Sukuk investing. Other responsibilities and projects include: • Business Strategy. Update Board of Directors on recent developments in Artificial Intelligence, recommend strategies to adopt AI and start Investment Science team.• Artificial Intelligence. (1) Built & deployed on Cloud an app to find companies exposed to similar investment themes using word embeddings & NLP. (2) Built engine to read research emails and predict sentiment using BERT. (3) Built A.I. chatbot to answer RFP questions.• Machine Learning. (1) Built Machine Learning model using Random Forest, AdaBoost, Lasso Regression, improved Quant fund Sharpe ratio by 0.2. (2) Built Machine Learning model using K-means and PCA to classify market conditions into: normal, bubble, crash, and recovery conditions. • Web Scraping of company announcements in real-time.

I have been an integral part of the Asian Equities team which manage in excess of US$1bn in the region. As a Fund Manager and Lead Data Scientist, I integrated Quantitative Analytics into my Fundamental Investing process, improved portfolio performance, and shared my quant insights with colleagues using an Investment Dashboard that I built and deployed on the cloud. Other key responsibilities and involvement summarized below:• Formulating active portfolio strategy across multiple mandates within Asia Pacific ex Japan equities • Responsible for mandates ranging the entire spectrum from Absolute to Relative Return• Interpreting macroeconomic trends and estimating market impact• Conduct detailed financial analysis of the companies we invest in• Absolute Return mandate cumulative return 121.9% vs 30.7% for benchmark, Oct 2015 to Jan 2021. • REIT fund annualised return 10.5% vs 6.7% for benchmark, Sep 2017 to Feb 2021 • Relative Return Insurance mandate outperformed Asia ex-Japan benchmark by ~1.5% annually from Oct 2015 to Dec 2019.

Changi Airports was growing its investments in global airport infrastructure. As a Corporate Finance lead, I evaluated a new investment opportunity in Russia, supporting the business team with financial modeling, valuation estimates, macroeconomic forecasting using econometrics.

ARN Investment Partners, established in 1997, is a long-short hedge fund specialising in Absolute-Return investment strategies in Asia ex Japan equity markets. As a Portfolio Manager, I was responsible for stock selection in the Technology sector and ASEAN markets, combining top-down international economic analysis with bottom-up industry and business analysis.• Stock selection in the Technology sector returned +534 bps over benchmark over a 2.5-year period, and comprised roughly 14% of the fund. • Stock selection alpha in select Emerging Markets: Thailand +274 bps, India +191 bps, Malaysia +12 bps, Indonesia -43 bps; over a 2.5 year period and comprised roughly 7% of the fund • Model Portfolio of stock recommendations across Asia returned +290 bps above benchmark over seven months from Aug 2013 to Feb 2014.

As a Business Analyst, I evaluated more than 10 M&A deals in Asia, supporting business owners in business valuation, financial due diligence, synergy estimation and price negotiation. I collated information from all stakeholders, prepared the internal pitch deck and presented larger deals to our global CEO for approval. • My largest deal was a $600 million unsolicited bid for a China industrial gas group. Without access to target financial statements, I worked with business intelligence team to estimate business value from bottom-up research on target’s physical assets. • I worked with global M&A Director to evaluate a private-equity offer for the largest industrial gas company in Sri Lanka. I developed a new streamlined deal evaluation process for small acquisitions to enable quick business expansion. • Strategic Planning for country business plan. Estimate addressable market size, and ROI for business lines. Develop capex plan to support growth projections based on market growth. Worked in Shanghai for ten months to share knowledge with local team.

As an Assistant Director for Northeast Asia, I was responsible for monitoring political and economic developments in China and Taiwan, analyzing their impact on Singapore, and developing foreign policy recommendations. I helped to draft briefing notes, speeches, and policy papers on foreign policy.