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ProEdge Finance's Commander In Chief

Tommy Seah is the Executive Chairman of The Active Information Group (AI Group), the leading provider of certification in the area of Certified Digital Forensic Analysis. Mr. Seah founded The AI Group with its proposed World Headquarter in Washington, D.C. in response to the need for the bank’s implementation of the BIS requirements for compliance to Risk Management in Basel II.

As a Member of the Board of Regents of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners in Texas, USA, a global 35,000-member professional association whose members are dedicated to fighting and preventing fraud, Mr. Seah has come across many cases of irregularities and fraudulent practices in the banking industry’s IT systems procurement and implementation. However it was in his practice as a Compliance Examiner in Risk Management in financial institutions whereby he has encountered a very serious threat to the global financial system in its implementation of Risk Management systems in Basel II and AML.

With his career being dedicated to developing anti-fraud training and educational products to help organizations and financial institutions better protect themselves from the impact of fraud, he saw the need for better methodology in analyzing Risk Management projects such as IT systems implementation, procurement and returns in IT investments. He has a particular interest in preventing and detecting IT implementation fraud in financial institutions and in public companies and has developed new techniques in digital analysis to enhance this field. This new technique is presently under patent rights application and when completed will lead to a revolutionary method at looking at the net results of the Basel II implementation in the areas of Risk Management. Not withstanding his very potent mix of multifarious professional qualifications in auditing, information technology, international banking and fraud examination, he remains true to his initial calling as an accountant.

Today, he is still a Fellow member of one of the six recognized RQBs Accountancy bodies in U.K. and throughout the European Union (EU) and many other international financial centers. What is even more remarkable is that as at this moment, he is still the only Singaporean that completed his English accountancy examination with a “double firsts” in Financial Management and in the overall aggregate finals in a world wide examination. Notwithstanding his academic brilliance, he has never aspired to be any form of professor. He would rather be a practitioner. In his own words, he would rather do it than talk about it. And for his very active involvement in his practice of Risk Management, he is accorded full individual membership of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) and is a circuit speaker on Risk Management in the Asia Pacific region.

He has also presented numerous papers for IIA and ISACA. The thousands of professional working people that have been his audience can testify to the fact that he has a very firm grip on all risk management issues in the banking and financial industry. For the past 30 years, he has been consulted by many bankers in the Asia/Pacific region on areas of Credit Risk, Liquidity Risk, Market Risk, Operational Risk and Trading Book Risk.

Mr. Tommy is also the appointed agent in ensuring compliance to Central Bank requirements for Outsourcing for a $25,000,000,000.00 asset management financial institution with interests span in three continents.