Managing Partner
Haley Lai
The Founder and a Managing Partner of Cetan Advisory & Consulting, Ms. Lai has over 20 years of experience in providing services to financial institutions.
Ms. Lai started her investment banking career at Lehman Brothers’ Financial Institutions Group where she was responsible for capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic advisory for their clients. She later joined Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, and Compass Point as senior investment banker where she provided investment banking services to financial services companies. Prior to investment banking, Ms. Lai was a senior consultant covering global financial institutions at Automatic Data Processing.
Ms. Lai received an MBA from Duke University and a B.Eng summa cum laude / first honor from Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, and spent her final undergraduate year at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania where she was on the Dean's List.