William Yap

William Yap has extensive experience in data analytics and statistics. William most recently held the position of Head of Data Analytics at Hong Leong Assurance Berhad in 2023. Prior to that, they were the Lead Data Scientist (Analytics) at Grab from 2021 to 2023. William also worked as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University Malaysia from 2020 to 2022. William served as an Assistant Vice President, Analytics at GREAT EASTERN in 2020. Earlier in their career, William worked as a Data Scientist at Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) from 2016 to 2017 and founded their own company, ONz, from 2014 to 2015. William began their career as a Senior Actuarial Analyst at GREAT EASTERN from 2009 to 2013.

William Yap obtained a Bachelor of Commerce in Actuarial Science from the University of Melbourne between 2004 and 2006. William has also completed additional certifications, including AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner from Amazon Web Services in March 2022, Data Engineer with Python from DataCamp in an unknown year, and Data Scientist with Python from DataCamp in 2019.