Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 11, 2015

Interview with the Group President: Noah Holdings Limited (NOAH)

Kenny Lam
Kenny Lam is currently Group President of Noah Holdings Limited. He oversees Noah’s operational and management functions, and key strategic initiatives. Mr. Lam brings 14 years of experience in strategic, operational and management transformations in the financial industry. Prior to Noah, he was a Global Senior Partner at McKinsey and a co-leader of its Asia Financial Service Practice, covering 13 markets across Asia. He was the fastest-rising Partner in McKinsey Asia when elected as a Global Partner within six years from his entry to McKinsey. Under his leadership, McKinsey's private, retail and digital banking practices more than tripled their client activities. He has led transformational programs for leading financial institutions across China, India, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan on a wide range of strategic, financial and operational topics, and was McKinsey's expert on private banking and wealth management. He has worked with governments and regulators on private banking strategy in the key offshore hubs of Asia. At McKinsey, he was also the Chairman of its people performance review committees, overseeing the review of Greater China's more than 200 professionals. Before McKinsey, he was with the American law firm Shearman & Sterling in New York and Hong Kong, counseling multinational corporations in various M&A transactions and NYSE/Nasdaq public offerings. Mr. Lam graduated with an M.A. with honors in law from Oxford University and magna cum laude with a B.S. in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Joseph Wharton Scholar and a Benjamin Franklin Scholar. Profile
TWST: If you could, please give us a history of Noah Holdings Limited.

Mr. Lam: Noah Holdings Limited was started in 2004 by our Chairman, Founder and current CEO, Chairman Wang Jingbo.