Edmund Lin

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. In 2010, he was appointed Bain’s Global Head of Financial Services, and has 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 has served on the SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business Advisory Board since 2004 and joined the SMU Board of Trustees in 2013.

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).