Draft:Lee Wai Yin

In this Chinese name, the family name is Lee

Lee Wai Yin is a Malaysian corporate consultant. He is the Prinsipal Consultant of Leadway Consultant (M) Sdn Bhd in building, TNB substations and development projects. He also served Leadway Engineering as a Chief Operating Officer to oversea the EPCC projects. Lee has 8 years of experience as corporate consultant and coach. Specializing in human capital development, project management, energy services, construction works and corporate governance. He has an intuitive sense when it comes to maximizing a business potential and shareholders’ return on investment to achieve business sustainability.

Biography
Born in Perak, Lee studied at SJK (c) Wan Hwa1 (1987-1992) and he continued his studies at SMK Mengelembu. He was recognized as a professional engineer that have been professional registered by Board of Engineers, Malaysia and was subsequently admitted as a registered professional technologist by Malaysia Board of Technologist. Having worked as a corporate consultant and coach for eight years, his areas of expertise include project management, corporate governance, energy services, building, and human capital development.

Education
Lee was born and raised in Ipoh, Perak. He completed his secondary education at SMK Menglembu (1993 – 1998), where he received the King Scout Award from Persatuan Pengakap Malaysia. He then pursued his Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics at Petronas University of Technology, earning the Dean's Award.

Subsequently, he obtained his Master of Business Administration from Nottingham Trent University. In 2020, he graduated from Universiti Sains Malaysia with a PhD in Business Administration, also receiving the Dean's Award from the Graduate School of Business. As a proud Perakian, he was awarded the Mybrain Scholarship for his outstanding academic achievements.

Career
He has a total of 20 years of work experience in various companies spanning across Constructions, Technology and Energy industries. Dr. Lee started his career as a Design Engineer with UMS-Norelco Limited, a LV machine fabrication company.

He gained design experience of production machines before he moved on to the testing department of Carsem (M) Sdn Bhd. With Carsem, he was a R & D Engineer; testing system involved in the project with US-based companies ST and TI. Then he joined Kejuruteraan Wah Keong a Perak as Project Manager in the EPCC of the various manufacturing plant and commercial projects.

He moved on to join Sancora Industries Sdn Bhd as Senior Project Manager to manage overall projects at the property development site in all states of Malaysia. He serves Leadway Consultancy(M) Sdn Bhd as a Principal Consultant for buildings, substations and development projects. Besides, He also served Leadway Engineering as a Chief Operating Officer to oversee the EPCC projects.

In 2022, he was appointed as an adjunct lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Petronas and to an Industry Advisory Panel atUniversiti Tunku Abdul Rahman.

Awards

 * SME Icons Award, Malaysia Services Provider Council
 * Best Design Award (Silver Award), Engineering Exhibition XII, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
 * Management Award (Discovering Voltage Spike), Carsem (M) Sdn. Bhd.
 * Management Award (Achieving ISO9001:2015), SNS Network (M) Sdn. Bhd.
 * Dean’s Award, Graduate School of Business, Universiti Sains Malaysia
 * Dean’s Award, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
 * King Scout’s Award, Persekutuan Pengakap Malaysia