Andrew L.W. Lee - Director
An accomplished instructor and consultant

Personal data

Andrew LW Lee is a Singapore citizen born on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean and who grew up in Singapore from age 15. After graduating from the University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, he entered the banking industry and spent the next 28 years serving in various businesses, the bulk of which was in the areas of treasury dealing and settlement.

He moved into the area of business continuity management in late 1997 and was made a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP #4299) with the DRII not long after that. He had also been certified as a CORS with The ICOR (#08081412BCM). Prior to his current role in DRBCM Associates Pte Ltd, he was the regional head of BCM with a major European bank with responsibility for the oversight of 17 countries in Asia Pacific and he held that post for 8-1/2 years until March 31, 2007.

Andrew is a very experienced instructor and a much sought-after conference speaker who is able to hold his audience and bring to life the subject matter at hand.

Affiliations and Honors

Andrew had been a qualified instructor with the Disaster Recovery Institute International since 2003 and had taught many classes of BCLE-2000, a course designed to prepare participants for the CBCP certification examinations. He is currently the trainer for DRI Singapore and has also been appointed as a BCM instructor for The ICOR.

Training and instructing had been part and parcel of Andrew's career since the early 1980s when he was a trainer in treasury products for one of the big US banks in Singapore. He was able to hold audience with finance directors, treasurers and CFOs and training them on the intricacies of the markets - how to maximize their investment returns while minimizing their costs. Over a period of six years, he taught more than a hundred classes of varying durations ranging from 3 days to 5 weeks.

Besides being a licensed BCMM® Assessor, Andrew has also availed himself as a mentor for BCM to companies in Singapore through the Singapore Business Federation.

Customer references

He is very passionate about BCM and had been known to share his wealth of experience with the participants in the courses he had taught as well as in the numerous conferences that he had been invited to share his experience and these were reflected in the very positive feedback responses received.

His passion for BCM was not just confined to the classroom or at the conference. He took his colleagues under his personal tutorage and groomed them for their BCM roles in the major European bank.

Since April 2007, Andrew had been involved in helping a number of financial institutions in Singapore on their BCM programs as well as appointed independent BCM auditor for one of the local polytechnics. His other clients include a number of MNCs and Singapore GLCs.

Andrew is the author of the following courses: -

• BCM-PM – Business Continuity Management – Programme Management
  
• BCM-Audit – Business Continuity Management Audit Programme
  
• BCM-SS540 - Business Continuity Management – Singapore Standards
  
• BCM -BS25999 – Business Continuity Management using British Standards Framework
  
• BCM-PDSG - Pandemic Business Continuity Management
  
• BCM-RSFI – Recovery Strategies for Financial Institutions