Alex S.

Head of Corporate Development @ AIA Hong Kong and Macau

About

Building multiple new ventures and businesses for both established and high-growth companies from scratch to finish covering retail banking, insurance and healthcare Love strategy consulting rigour and spirit of entrepreneurship - helping venture teams across the journey from fundraising, deal negotiation, product development, team building to commercialization Deep academic and business management experience in financial services and public health Bring curiosity and passion to everything I do. An amateur open water swimmer, home chef, scuba diver and remote island explorer

Country

Hong Kong SAR

City

Hong Kong

Industry

Financial Services

Skill

Business Strategy, Research, Start-ups, Entrepreneurship, Business Planning, Strategic Planning, Consulting, Strategy, Financial Modeling, Accounting

Experience

Head of Corporate Development

AIA Hong Kong and Macau

2024-8 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Hong Kong SAR

Identify, pursue and manage strategic partnerships & inorganic opportunities for AIA Hong Kong & Macau business

Associate Director, Group Strategy

AIA

2021-9 - 2024-8 · 3 yrs

Hong Kong SAR

Formulate the Group's longer-term strategic priorities, identification and evaluation of potential new value pools for AIA Develop Integrated Health Strategy (IHS) structure and rollout. Led target scan, commercial due diligence and post deal integration of multiple M&A in healthcare & health insurance. Work closely with AIA Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia from insurance product design, distribution strategy, provider management to TOM design

Senior Manager, Strategy

EY-Parthenon

2017-1 - 2021-9 · 4 yrs 9 mos

Greater China

- Engagement Manager of 20+ projects from M&A due diligence, product design, customer research, partnership assessment, business case to market entry assessment - Specialized in financial services, healthcare, FinTech and retail - Strategy, Ecosystem Partnership & Product Lead in different ventures. Founding member of two virtual banks in Hong Kong (LiviBank and Mox) and a retail loyalty program (Yuu by Dairy Farm) achieving 2mn users in 3 months from JV structuring, product development, customer research to market launch - Managed recruitment and consulting skills training program

Manager, Industry Solutions and Partnerships

LSEG Data & Analytics

2013-9 - 2016-12 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Hong Kong, London

- Joined as Graduate Program with different department rotations - Built the FinTech partnerships function in Asia-Pacific, building multiple data partnerships and structuring new solutions including sentiment analysis and private company screening with industry coverage (e.g., Huffington Post, SCMP and Sina)

Education

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Global Business (Second Major: Information System)

2010-9 - 2013-6 · 2 yrs 10 mos

- Dean's List with GPA 3.7/4.0 - Asia Champion in Inter-Asia Business Challenge in Japan (out of 2500 candidates). Invited to Tokyo and presented market entry strategy for DeNA, the leading mobile gaming company. Awarded by Ms Tomoko Namba, the prominent entrepreneur in Japan - Global Champion in Challenge:Future (out of 1000 candidates). Invited to Bled in Slovenia and presented the interdisciplinary research on the interaction between social enterprises and urban planning to the country President of Republic of Slovenia