Hong Leong Assurance
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.
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Hong Leong Assurance
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Hong Leong Assurance Berhad (HLA) is one of the largest insurance companies in Malaysia. It is a well-established and respected Malaysian brand offering financial planning and protection solutions to meet the various needs of Malaysians at different cycles of their lives. Commitment to the customer is the key to HLA's success, where service is provided through a large network of branches, agents and brokers throughout the country as well as bancassurance and alternative distribution channels. HLA began as a General Insurance business under the name of Malaysia Pacific Insurance Berhad in 1972. The Life Insurance business was added into its portfolio a year later. In December 1982, Hong Leong Assurance Sdn Bhd, a composite insurance company was formed eventually acquiring the entire General and Life business of Malaysia Pacific Insurance. Today, HLA is a subsidiary of HLA Holdings Sdn Bhd (HLAH), which is wholly-owned by Hong Leong Financial Group Berhad (HLFG), the financial services arm of Hong Leong Group Malaysia. Pursuant to a strategic partnership, in October 2010, HLA merged its General Insurance business with MSIG Insurance (Malaysia) Bhd (MSIM). Concurrently, HLAH took a 30 percent equity interest in MSIM and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company Limited (MSI) took a 30 percent equity interest in HLA. Moving forward, the General Insurance business would be provided by MSIM, while the life insurance business would continue to be provided by HLA.