William Nyam - Member Profile

With over 25 years of experience, William has notable consulting experience for the public sector. He focuses on Strategy & Economics and covers broad areas of industry and sectors. William spent over 20 years doing management consulting (approximately 12 years of his consulting career was in Big 4 Assurance, Taxation and Advisory firm in Malaysia). He started from leading the Portal Strategy & Management services unit to be the Head of Strategy & Operations for the Management Consulting practice.
He left the Big 4 in 2014 and joined a Public Listed Property and Plantation company as the Group COO. Subsequently in 2016, he started STRAT369 Consulting Sdn. Bhd. William is the Principal and owner of STRAT369 Consulting Sdn. Bhd. and also served as a Consultant under the ADB’s Financial and Economics Specialist Resource Network.

In the public sector front, he led various economic and regulatory reforms and PPP advisory. The projects that had profound impact on him were his involvement in the: –
• transformation of Water Services Industry for Malaysia and all aspects of water advisory;
• transition of the Public Sector’s Modified Budgeting System to Outcome-based Budgeting;
• effectiveness of tolled highway privatisations in a developing country like Malaysia;
• development of thematic Industrial Parks for a competitive Malaysia; and
• study of Co-operatives sector as the third economic force or social economy contributing to the socio-economic growth in Malaysia.

William holds a Master in Finance from RMIT (Aust) and holds a professional qualification from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK.
He started his career in a consultancy firm specializing in strategic cost and financial management. His specific involvement was in the areas of activity-based cost management, process improvements, value-based management, and financial modelling. Later, he joined a start-up company specializing in software and internet solutions as the Finance Manager thereafter as the Financial Controller. He joined a PE firm as an Investment Manager for short stint and later joined KPMG Management & Risk Consulting in Malaysia.