Yak Chau Wei is a director of GAO Advisors which specializes in providing valuation and financial investigative services in dispute resolution and litigation in Singapore. She is also CEO of GAO Capital,a fund management company founded in 2008. Chau Wei’s extensive corporate finance experience at JPMorgan and UBS Investment Bank, in their New York, Tokyo, and London offices, has enabled her to provide specialist support to cross-border clients for complex investigations and
valuation matters. Chau Wei relocated the firm’s headquarters back to Singapore in 2010 and has been operating in the Asia Pacific region for over a decade.
Chau Wei graduated summa cum /aude from the University of Pennsylvania with a dual degree, BS in
Economics and BA in Asian & Middle Eastern Studies from the Wharton School and the College of Arts and Sciences, respectively, with a minor in Mathematics. She is fluent in English and Mandarin with proficiency in Japanese.