A firm built on both sides of the table.
Beacon Advisory & Solutions operates across two complementary lines of business — one rooted in strategic advisory, the other in hands-on commercial execution. Together, they let us serve financial institutions and the technology companies that sell to them with equal depth.
The Team
Yvonne Nguyen
Yvonne Nguyen is a senior executive in banking and financial services with extensive experience across Vietnam and South Korea. Most recently Chief Operations Officer at Prudential Vietnam Assurance, she led large-scale operations, customer experience, and digital transformation initiatives. She has held senior leadership roles with Prudential, AIA, and HSBC Group, including international COO and global risk leadership positions.
She is recognised for driving complex change, building high-performing teams, and delivering sustainable business outcomes across the insurance and banking sectors. Her expertise spans operations transformation, digital enablement, and customer experience — underpinned by strong change leadership, robust risk and governance, and disciplined strategic execution.
Representative Experience
- Chief Operations Officer, Prudential Vietnam Assurance
- Led enterprise-wide operations across underwriting, claims & servicing
- Spearheaded large-scale digital & customer experience transformation initiatives
- Oversaw a workforce of 400+ professionals across core operations functions
- Chief Operating Officer, HSBC Fund Services (Korea)
- Vice President, Global Business Risk Review, HSBC Securities Services
- Head of Vitality & Digital Transformation, AIA Vietnam
- Head of Trade Finance, HSBC Vietnam
Henry Wong
Henry is a seasoned thought leader in financial services with over 23 years of experience driving value creation across wealth management and insurance. He has a strong track record of advising senior executives on strategy, transformation, and growth initiatives, combining deep industry expertise with a technology- and data-driven perspective. Henry is a frequent speaker at InsurTech and industry forums and has published influential investment research in the U.S. market. Passionate about using innovation to build sustainable competitive advantage, he now leads business development and strategic growth initiatives across the Southeast Asia region.
Representative Experience
- CX Transformation — Life Insurance: Delivered high-impact automated underwriting implementations, significantly improving straight-through processing (STP) rates and customer experience, and doubling insurer client bases year-on-year across multiple Asian markets.
- Account Management: Managed strategic regional accounts across Asia, acting as the single point of accountability for pre- and post-implementation success, performance reviews, and innovation roadmaps.
- Business Development — Life Insurance: Spearheaded Asia market expansion for advanced underwriting and actuarial solutions, winning new clients and penetrating high-growth, under-served markets. Drove C-suite engagements through executive presentations, solution demos, onsite workshops, and complex commercial negotiations.
- Investment Strategy — Wealth Management: Authored time-sensitive investment research on 200+ preferred securities from over 60 issuers, informing portfolio decisions across USD 15 billion in average AUM. Helped shape strategic and tactical views of the U.S. preferred market, including retail-oriented securities totaling approximately USD 250 billion.
Our Lines of Business
Management Consulting & Advisory
Fee-based consulting for financial services and fintech companies, covering strategy through to implementation.
- Business strategy & corporate planning
- Digital transformation & digitalisation
- Regulatory compliance, risk management & governance
- System integration & data analytics
- Process automation & financial technology solutions
- Training, coordination & implementation support
Fintech Sales & Channel Management
Commission-based commercial representation for technology vendors and software providers entering or expanding within financial services.
- Sales, marketing & promotional support
- Business matching & lead generation
- Customer acquisition & account management
- Channel management & commercial representation
- Client engagement & relationship support
- Contract-based go-to-market execution
Who We Serve
Our work concentrates where advisory depth and commercial execution matter most — institutions managing complex risk and compliance, and vendors trying to reach them.
