Ken Chern Lee

Credit Rating Assessment • Conduct internal credit rating assessment through studying their P&L and balance sheets, performing ratio analysis and cross-checking with non-financial credit determinants to identify potential credit risks and mitigation plans before proceeding to finalization of Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), a long term electricity sales contract ranging from 15-25 years. Performed similar studies onto subcontractors of the company too to decide whether to obtain bank guarantees and/or performance bonds from them Financial Modelling (Project Cashflow) • Prepared financial models with data inputs/ assumptions such as system capacity, PPA tenure, total installation cost, recurring costs and financing related inputs such as interest rate and loan tenure to derive a project’s equity IRR and debt-service coverage ratios (DSCR) in order to hit the internal required IRR and minimum DSCR to comply with the loan’s conditional precedent (CP). Performs sensitivity tests on changes on inputs such as forex, system capacity or solar panel prices to examine the impact on IRR and DSCR Investement Committee presentation and assessment • Prepared presentation materials along with financial modelling and internal credit check input to the company’s Investment Committee, who will then decide whether to proceed or abandon the project Assist on Financial Close Preparation all the required documents to fulfil the Condition Precedent and Drawdown Condition for all the Project Financing for Financial Close. Assist on RFP process on finance activities Manage, track and execute for all RFP query from Bankers including information compilation, term sheet comparison and follow up on Letter of Offer (LO) issuances Other ad-hoc work • Internal subsidiary valuation for discussion of future corporate exercises • Assisted on amendment of a platform valuation model that consolidates the value of all the projects under the company • Investor reporting and information compile

Facilitated a process enhancement project through visualizing departmental flowcharts, identifying cost factors and metrics within procedures as well as structuring surveys to unveil outsourcing/ improvement

Tasks involved: Market entry study for a Japanese non-banking financial institution • Performed a market entry study about the non-performing loans market in Malaysia. Highlights include data collection, cleaning and structuring of NPL pool of 20 biggest Malaysian banks in 2022 to provide a NPL breakdown by sector and purpose Buy side analysis of a Malaysia based fintech startup • Mainly assisted in the building of 3 statement model, preparation of slide deck and arrangement of expert interviews Buyer list construction for a Japanese automotive parts company • Assisted the delivery of an exhaustive list of buyers with over 150 actual buyers under 15 investment reasons to an automotive parts company aiming to divest its subsidiaries

Conducted market studies, competitive benchmarking and case study development Some of the featured projects include European cold chain market study for a global distribution chain company: • Studied competitor profiles and competitive benchmarking for UPS Healthcare in 4 different European countries (UK, Poland, Italy, Germany) based on different indicators such as quality assurance, healthcare logistics and distribution, global freight forwarding, cold chain capabilities and customer service technologies Development of case studies for an American mobile computing company • Researched extensively through secondary means for interesting case studies for high level meetings • Developed visual diagrams and slidedeck to illustrate successes/ failures of the selected companies and to unlock learnings/ key lessons from such case studies

Conducted market studies mainly through secondary research through databases like Bloomberg, Factiva, EMIS and more. Some of the main studies conducted include trend analysis, identification of case studies, patent analysis, competitor profiling and benchmarking as well as industry best practices Some of the featured projects include: Service robot research for a R&D subsidiary of a Korean technology company • Analysed indoor autonomous service robot industry from various perspectives of competitor analysis, regulatory overview, patent trends as well as investment and M&A climates. Studied 15,757 patents to provide patent breakdown by category and subcategory technologies, by region and top companies Competitive benchmarking for multiple companies • Applied an internally developed 2 dimension framework for competitor benchmarking to score and position competitors in the Americas water filtration market as well as the global motion control industry players to enable the client to understand better with its company position

Conduct secondary research as well as simple quantitative analysis based on public sources such as World Bank, United Nations, government and company websites to prepare business documents Some key projects involved: Financial inclusion research for Singapore based remittance company • Involved in a research about foreign domestic workers which required me to quantify the economic contribution of foreign domestic workers in their destination country and their contribution to their country of origin Chinese medical device R&D study for a global medical device company • Produced insights inferred from the R&D efforts and pipelines of its competitors Strategy benchmarking exercises for multiple MENA telecommunication carrier companies Digital government study for a Korean agency • Identify the best digitization practices in terms of government structure and initiatives through studying e-government strategies across countries in South East Asia, South Asia as well as countries with advanced e-government practices Digital experience study for an American insurance company • Provided best digital experience practices and user interfaces to boost metrics as measured in sales, customer satisfaction and retention Articles on trends and development in media and broadcasting industry for a Korean agency • Monthly updates of articles to the agency