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Langauge Spoken: Mandarin

Yiyan Lin

Yiyan joined MDD’s Singapore office in 2014. He is now a Manager and works out of the firm’s London office.

Since joining MDD, Yiyan has worked across a variety of practice areas including advance loss of profits/delay in start-up, business interruption, contingent BI and extra expenses, stock and contents, cyber, personal injury & wrongful death cases. His recent assignments have involved the energy, hospitality and tourism, manufacturing, oil & gas, power generation and retail sectors.

He graduated from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) with a degree in Accountancy and Business and is fluent in Mandarin.

Wina Marita

Wina began her career with Matson Driscoll & Damico in 2014 and is now a Manager in the firm’s Singapore office.

Since joining MDD, Wina has been involved mainly in the economic damage quantification of business interruption and stock losses.  She has also worked on litigation support and business valuation cases.  Wina has been involved in assignments across the region, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines.

Her industry experience includes agricultural, automotive, banking and financial services, distribution and warehouse, hotels and resorts, manufacturing, mining, petrochemical and oil refineries and technology.  Wina is fluent in Bahasa Indonesia and speaks conversational Mandarin.

Wina graduated from the University of London with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance (Honours). She is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).  She currently serves as the Treasurer of the Singapore Insurance Institute.

Jerome McDonagh

Jerome has over 10 years of experience in Forensic Accounting.  He joined MDD in 2015 and is Director of their Litigation Support Services in Hong Kong.

He focuses on matters related to business valuation, business disputes, loss of profits and fraud & investigations. He has extensive experience in litigation support and has acted as an expert witness in Hong Kong and UK court proceedings.

In business valuations, Jerome has advised clients and acted as an expert witness in a variety of assignments including shareholder disputes, divorce proceedings, and valuations of start-ups and mature businesses.  The assignments relate to parties from various jurisdictions including Hong Kong, Singapore, PRC, Korea, Cayman Islands and United Kingdom.

Jerome has been involved in numerous damage quantification matters including loss of profits, post-M&A breaches of warranties and aborted contract claims.

Jerome’s loss of profit experience extends to catastrophe services experience from his involvement in assignments related to the Tianjin explosions in 2015 and Typhoon Hato in 2017.

His expertise spans a wide range of industries including financial services, manufacturing, textiles & apparel, IT, property, shipping & freight, telecommunications, casino and gaming.

Jerome is the creator of the MDD Duxbury Calculator, an online, subscription-based calculator designed to enable Duxbury calculations to be completed quickly and cost-effectively.  The Duxbury Calculator can be accessed here.

He has presented various seminars and workshops on business valuation, financial statement fraud, losses from aborted contracts and Duxbury calculations.

Fluent in Cantonese and conversant in Mandarin, Jerome graduated from Manchester University (UK) with a Bachelor of Economic Science degree and the University of London (UK) with a Master of Science degree in Professional Accountancy.  He holds various professional qualifications and affiliations including:

  • Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK)
  • Member of the Academy of Experts (UK)
  • Certified Fraud Examiner (USA)
  • Certified Valuation Analyst (USA)
  • Member of the Hong Kong Family Law Association (HK)
  • Treasurer of the Hong Kong Insurance Law Association (HK)

Rachel Cai

Rachel joined MDD Forensic Accountants in 2008. She has worked for the firm in Singapore and Tokyo and is currently a Senior Manager at its Hong Kong office.

Rachel’s practice focuses on the quantification of economic damages related to business interruption, extra expenses/increased costs, fidelity claims, liability losses and stock losses. She has also been actively involved in catastrophes, especially the 2011 Thailand Floods, providing economic damage assessments.

Rachel’s professional experience spans a wide range of industries including automotive manufacturing, food and beverage, electronics manufacturing, semiconductor, steel, hotels and resorts, power generation, credit cards, insurance, and wholesale and retail industries.

Fluent in Mandarin, Rachel has presented seminars and workshops to industry professionals to help them understand the methodology to calculate business interruption and the problems associated when setting the sum insured. She has also assisted in the preparation of expert witness reports.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts from the National University of Singapore, majoring in Economics. Rachel is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (ACMA).

Bhurima Tienwuttinun

Bhurima joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ Singapore office at the end of 2011 and relocated to Thailand to set up and manage the firm’s Bangkok office in 2016.

Her forensic accounting expertise spans a wide range of practice areas, including business interruption, advance loss of profits/delay in start-up, commercial disputes, construction defect/delay, employment litigation, fraud and investigations, and stock & contents losses. She also has experience in the catastrophe services area, providing economic damage assessments during natural disasters such as the 2011 Thailand Floods.

She has worked across many industries, such as manufacturing, power plants, chemical processing, refineries and hotels.  Bhurima has testified as an expert witness in various courts in Thailand such as the civil, labour and provincial courts.

Bhurima is well-known and respected in the Thai insurance market and leads our MDD Academy in Thailand, giving numerous presentations to insurers, brokers, the Thai General Insurance Association, and law firms. She is an associate member of CIArb, a member of ArbitralWomen, and has served as Honorary Treasurer for the Insurance Law Association Singapore (ILAS).

Bhurima received her Bachelor of Business Administration degree (BBA), majoring in Finance from Thammasat University, Thailand.  She also spent one year as an exchange student at Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.  She is fluent in Thai and English and has basic knowledge of spoken Mandarin.

Nattakarn Prasitsumrit

Nattakarn joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ Singapore office in 2013 as a Senior Accountant. She is now a Senior Manager at the firm’s Singapore office.

Fluent in Thai, English, Mandarin and Japanese, Nattakarn has worked on various economic damage quantification cases across Asia, Africa and Europe. Her expertise includes advanced loss of profits/delay in start-up, business interruption, business valuation, catastrophe services, contingent BI & extra expenses, and stock & contents.  In addition, she has provided litigation accounting services to MDD clients and has been active in catastrophe services, quantifying damages that occurred as a result of the 2011 Thailand Floods.

Nattakarn has been engaged on numerous assignments in the automotive, manufacturing, hotels and resorts and telecommunications sectors. She has extensive experience in the Energy sector which includes oil & gas, power generation and distribution and mining & refining.

She has presented seminars and training sessions to industry professionals on various topics including business interruption, power generation losses and refinery & petrochemical losses.

Nattakarn received her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting (First Class Honors) from the Chulalongkorn Business School in Thailand. She also spent one semester at Japan’s Akita International University in the Global Business Faculty. Nattakarn is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA).

Norman Kwan

Norman joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ San Francisco office in 2001 as a Staff Accountant. In 2007, he relocated to the Singapore office to assist with the firm’s expansion of its Asia Pacific operations. In 2009, Norman opened the Hong Kong Office and in 2013, he opened the Tokyo Office. He is a Partner at the firm.

Fluent in both English and Cantonese, Norman has vast international experience and has provided litigation services to clients in Hong Kong, Singapore, the United States and the United Kingdom.

He has performed economic damage quantification assessments for many of MDD’s practice areas including matters related to fidelity, business interruption, extra expenses and stock & contents.  Additionally, he has significant experience in the environmental damages and catastrophe services areas, having been engaged on assignments resulting from hurricanes Katrina, Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne, as well as the Asian tsunami, the Great Tohoku earthquake and the Thai Floods.

He has conducted and presented seminars on forensic accounting topics such as business interruption, extra expenses, stock & contents and catastrophe services.

Norman graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics.