Gary is a Partner of JPWALL, based in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, and joined the firm in 2008.
With over 15 years of industry experience, he has been involved in all areas of actuarial work such as product design and pricing for various lines of business, capital assessment and management, and statutory Appointed Actuary roles that includes the valuation of liabilities and preparation of Financial Condition Reports. He has also worked on less traditional areas including enterprise risk management, reinsurance optimization and mergers and acquisitions.
Before he joined JPWALL, from 2000-2004, he worked with two direct composite insurance companies; his roles being in life insurance actuarial in one and in general insurance actuarial in the other. As the team setups were small in those insurers then, Gary’s roles were in both pillars of traditional actuarial work, i.e. valuation and pricing. In 2005, he took up a general insurance actuarial opportunity with a regionally well-known consulting firm.
Gary joined JPWALL in 2008 as Senior Consultant to manage the newly established Kuala Lumpur office with a team of just three people. Over the several years that followed, the firm worked on building relationships with existing and potential clients and experienced great success, leading the firm to grow to a team of over ten people. He was promoted to Principal in 2014 and JPWALL continued its progress and strengthened its presence in Malaysia.
In 2014, Gary decided to return to the corporate world and took up an EXCO-level opportunity as the Chief Actuary in the Malaysian office of the globally renowned Japanese insurance giant, Tokio Marine. Here, he led a newly setup actuarial department and built the team to ten people in a few short months. His responsibilities included assuming the statutory Appointed Actuary role, as well leading the product pricing function and capital management initiatives.
Realizing that he missed consulting however, Gary made a decision to return to JPWALL at the end of 2015 as Partner, with a deep appreciation of the experience and opportunity of having been with Tokio Marine. Gary’s scope of responsibilities continues to expand at JPWALL, now with a regional focus on business opportunities and development while still very much involved in the Malaysian consulting work and assignments.
Gary graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Actuarial Science in 2000 from the National University of Malaysia and is a Fellow of both the US Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS, 2006) and the Society of Actuaries (FSA, 2016). He is currently the President-Elect of the Actuarial Society of Malaysia and will assume office as President for two years in 2017 and 2018.