Faiz Ong
Regional Director, Southeast Asia

Faiz joined PICA-SRA on the 1st January 2010 as a Consultant for the firm's Malaysian operation. Later in the same year, he was appointed as PICA-SRA's Regional Director for Southeast Asia.

He joined the Royal Malaysia Police in 1981 and successfully led a team of intelligence officers in the infiltration and destabilization of subversive and terrorist elements operating within Malaysia.

In 1987 Faiz moved to private sector where he joined Diners Club International and MasterCard International, where he spent a combined seven years investigating credit card related fraud and white collar crimes. Faiz also worked for Pinkerton C&I as a Manager handling its Malaysian operations until circa 2000, and thereafter worked for a number of years as the Southeast Asian deputy for the late Tony Gurka, a renowned Hong Kong-based investigative and security consultant. More recently Faiz was the Head of Examination under the Internal Audit & Deputy Compliance Manager for Digi Telecommunications, a leading Malaysian mobile telecommunications company.

Faiz is an expert in intellectual property protection, having conducted numerous anti-counterfeiting investigations and enforcement actions throughout Southeast Asia. Notably, Faiz had the opportunity to utilize his knowledge of counterfeiting networks in Southeast Asia by working closely with the United States Secret Service for four years in investigating the production of forged US currency notes in that region.

As a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Faiz has been tasked to provide expert opinions in Court proceedings, advisory boards to various multinational companies, and to the public at large. He has also authored articles published in STAR newspaper in relation to Commercial Crime in Malaysia.