Eliza Lau
Founder & CIO, Synergy Fund Management Group
Ms. Eliza Lau is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Synergy Fund Management Group. Ms. Lau has over 25 years of experience in the financial industry, of which includes managing Alternative and Traditional portfolios for Institution, Pension, and Family Office investors globally. Ms. Lau was awarded "The 25 Most Influential Women in Asset Management“ by Asian Investor in 2011. Prior to founding Synergy, Ms. Lau was the CEO and CIO of SAIL Advisors, where she spent 8 years at Search Investment Group and helped the Principal, Mr. Robert Miller, to build an institutional investment platform for Global and Asia Alternative Investment. Ms. Lau built and setup SAIL Advisors Limited in 2003 from Family Office to one of the largest Funds of Funds in Asia. Before Search Investment Group, Ms. Lau was one of the founding partners of JL Capital Partners Limited, an Asian macro hedge fund based in Singapore. Prior to JL, Ms. Lau spent 13 years with Salomon Brothers, based in New York and Hong Kong. Ms. Lau helped to build the Salomon Brothers HK Asset Management business and setup Pan-Asia focus funds including equity long/short hedge funds and long only funds where she was responsible for managing Pan-Asian equity portfolios and convertible bond portfolios. Ms. Lau spent 6 years in research at Salomon Brothers New York, where she conducted intensive research on global equity, fixed-income and quantitative modeling for investment and portfolio construction.
