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Edmond Lau
FD/CFO
Hong Kong
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Edmond Lau
30 years of finance and business development journey has enriched me with versatile business knowledge. It’s however not until I started and ran my own business that I felt my career complete. Whether you’re on your lone entrepreneurial journey, a small business with a passion to be big, a mid-size team that needs some guidance from someone who shares the passion and has tumbled before you.
Specialist Skills
Strategic Thinker
Strategic planning for new markets/sector entry via partnership, JVs or M&A
Cash flow Improvement
Working capital optimisation to support growth
Business Planning
Revenue and business modelling
Executive Coaching
Support entrepreneurs/CEOs in their growth journey
Leadership
Aligning and tracking KPIs among teams to achieve group goals
Track Record Highlights
- Support strategic planning to enter Korea and China markets for a US toy business, which helped double the regional revenue in three years.
- Improved ROCE by 20ppt in two years by consolidating inventories around Asian markets and raising gross margin by 10ppt for a regional toy business
- Market entries to Indonesia, Philippines and Cambodia, hence growing a fashion retailer's store network from 250 to 300 in three years outside of China.
- Plan and execute a brand new online shop for a leading household retailer, bundled with a new CRM program which recruited 400,000 members in three months.
- Start a fashion jewellery business distributing lifestyle products from Italy/Europe. A once-in-a-lifetime entrepreneurial journey of my own
Sector Experience
- retail-consumer-products Branded toys, gifts, fashion
- retail-consumer-products Retail >300POS across Asia/ME
- retail-consumer-products My own business: distributing fashion jewellery from Italy/Europe
- healthcare Pharmaceutical
- manufacturing-transport-logistics Sourcing
