Edmund Lin joined Bain & Company’s San Francisco office in 1990 and relocated to Singapore in 1994 to help found the global consultancy’s Southeast Asian practice. From 2010 to 2019, he served as Bain’s Global Head of Financial Services, and had led the firm’s practice area, advising the world’s leading financial institutions on their most critical business issues. Under his leadership, Financial Services has been one of the largest and fastest growing practices within the firm. Ed works extensively with leading global and domestic financial institutions across Asia, Europe and the United States spanning growth strategies, mergers and acquisitions, and large scale transformation programs.
Ed serves on the Singapore Management University Board of Trustees and is Chairman of the Finance and Remuneration Committee. He is also Chairman of the SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business Advisory Board and SMU College of Integrative Studies Advisory Board.
Ed has an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Distinction, Beta Gamma Sigma) and a B.S. degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley (High Honours, University of California Regents Scholar, National Merit Scholar).