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Kenny entered the world of banking in 2006 without any prior academic knowledge of accounting, finance and investment.
Trained as a computer engineer, he landed a role in a fledging French consulting firm upon graduation, working alongside the Chief Engineer at Philips Electronics for six months before moving on to restart his career in finance.
He started off by working on several valuation engagements at KPMG Corporate Finance in Singapore and subsequently joined a Korean securities house as part of its pioneering team in Southeast Asia to run origination and execution.
Thereafter, he joined the corporate finance team at BNP Paribas focusing on mergers & acquisitions. He was also in Standard Chartered Bank's industry coverage team focusing on technology and cleantech.
Investment banking provided him with the unique opportunity of being able to work across a spectrum of cultures in Southeast Asia and the broader Asia Pacific region. He also had the opportunity to work across various industries spanning power & utilities, natural resources, consumer, manufacturing, renewable energy, technology and other sectors.
After leaving banking in 2016, Kenny co-founded IJK Capital Partners, an investment and advisory firm that focuses on catalyzing opportunities between China and the rest of the world. He was chiefly responsible for assembling the team in Singapore and building its corporate access business from scratch.
In 2018, he also started lecturing in an adjunct capacity and has since taught numerous courses relating to business valuation, financial modeling and leveraged acquisitions.
Having taken the un-orthodox path to this trade, his approach to understanding how businesses work, the workings of corporate finance and valuation tend to be highly non-academic in nature.
His teaching style is rooted in the application of corporate finance, primarily aimed at guiding experienced executives from non-finance backgrounds in terms of navigating the corporate venture capital space and strategic decision-making at the workplace.
In early 2021 amidst the pandemic, Kenny moved to Hong Kong to lead investor relations, capital raising and international business for SY Holdings, a Hong Kong mainboard listed supply chain platform. He is currently also an affiliate faculty lecturer at the Singapore Management University's continuing education arm, SMU Academy.
Over the course of his professional career, Kenny has lived in Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
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