Stanley Chia
Group Managing Director
FCSI, CFE, CAMS, CGRC, BEcon, MCom (Business Law)
Member of GRC Group, New York
Member of Australsian Compliance Institute
Stanley Chia is no ordinary person. He is a man of great resilience and generous by nature.
Stanley is the genius who founded the ICFE Group of companies with barely six years of work experience since graduation. Like all successful entrepreneurs, he is thoroughly convinced he can accomplish something constructive and meaningful for organisations that require qualified fraud examiners that can put an end to fraudulent practices. He is a man of boundless curiosity, endowed with valuable insights and a lively sense of humor.
His spirit of inquiry and devotion to fraud examination laid the foundations for ICFE Group of companies. In a short span, he managed to transform the ICFE Group of Companies into a think-tank group that has offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. ICFE group provides multi-consultancy solutions to companies world-wide. Stanley specializes in investigative interviewing & profiling techniques and has handled numerous cases for both local and foreign financial institutions. He has worked for large financial institutions like AIA Insurance, Singapore Exchange and United Overseas Bank where he was involved in anti-money laundering, compliance, enforcement and fraud investigation work. To date, Stanley has investigated more than 100 fraud and compliance-related cases and some of them involved over US$1M. Recently, he assisted Morgan Stanley, Singapore to review AML issues with its Private Wealth Management.
Stanley is also the current Honorary Vice Chairperson of CSI World Headquarters, an international accreditation body for Digital Forensics. He was recently conferred the coveted Fellow title of the CSI World Headquarters. He is well versed in financial products knowledge, fraud examination techniques and compliance methodologies. Stanley is often invited to speak at conferences and seminars in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Shanghai where he teaches fraud investigation, investigative interviewing and profiling techniques and internal control. He has also co-authored a series of pocket-sized guide books for auditors published by CSI World Headquarters. He is currently writing a book on Interviewing & Profiling techniques – ISBN 978-981-08-0599-9.
Stanley holds a Master of Commerce, specializing in Business Law from The University of New South Wales. He obtained his Bachelor of Economics, majoring in Money & Banking and Accounting in 2001 from The University of Western Australia.
