Sanjay Sidhu

Sanjay is an Executive Director in multiple Advisory practice areas, an Audit Partner, and sits on the BDO Global Risk Advisory Steering Committee and the BDO Global Forensic Steering Committee. He has over 34 years of investigative, dispute resolution, compliance, assurance and advisory experience across Southeast Asia, and the Europe, Middle-East & Africa regions.

Sanjay has led corporate, stakeholder and regulator-driven investigations, leading to identification of issues and responsibility, and remediation and recovery actions. He has also successfully assisted clients and their legal counsel in collecting, analysing, compiling and presenting evidence in litigation and dispute resolution matters, bringing them to successful conclusion. Sanjay regularly provides Expert Witness testimony, appearing in Court, Arbitration and Mediation in Malaysia and overseas.

Sanjay also leads Risk Advisory, Information Systems Assurance and Information Security engagements for a range of clients in Malaysia and overseas.

Sanjay commenced his career in 1991, executing statutory audit, IT audit, data analytics, process transformation and investigations/special audits in the UK and Eastern Europe. He then held Internal Audit leadership roles at a number of Fortune 500 companies, based in the Netherlands over an 11-years period, with responsibility for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Sanjay joined BDO upon his return to Malaysia in 2012.

Sanjay’s corporate experience included a focus on the design, implementation and execution of programmes for US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance, healthcare marketing (IFPMA Code) compliance, the conduct of internal FCPA investigations for reporting to the United States DOJ and SEC, and the operation and follow-up of whistleblower complaints and resultant internal investigations.

Country Experience

Malaysia, United Kingdom, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa
 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS / EDUCATION