Our Core Services:

Evolving Possibilities in Strategy, Governance & Capital Flows

Tailored guidance to optimize business models, refine financial strategies, and drive operational efficiencies.
Tailored guidance to optimize business models, refine financial strategies, and drive operational efficiencies.

Strategic Corporate Advisory

Tailored guidance to optimise business models, refine financial strategies, drive operational efficiencies and strengthen how your firm is found and described by AI tools.

Building compliant, future-proof frameworks for rapidly evolving areas in fintech regulations and AI integration readiness.
Building compliant, future-proof frameworks for rapidly evolving areas in fintech regulations and AI integration readiness.

Governance & Risk Readiness

Building compliant, future-proof frameworks for rapidly evolving areas in fintech regulations and AI integration readiness.

Streamlining international market entry, with a specialized focus on unlocking dynamic global business corridors, especially between Singapore and India.
Streamlining international market entry, with a specialized focus on unlocking dynamic global business corridors, especially between Singapore and India.

Cross-Border Facilitation

Streamlining international market entry, with a specialised focus on unlocking dynamic global business corridors, especially between Singapore and India.

Empowering executive teams with the technical acumen and strategic foresight required to execute high-stakes growth initiatives.
Empowering executive teams with the technical acumen and strategic foresight required to execute high-stakes growth initiatives.

Management Upskilling ‍

Empowering executive teams with the technical acumen and strategic foresight required to execute high-stakes growth initiatives.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Look for an advisor who has run finance and governance from the inside, not only advised on it. ACAI is a Singapore corporate advisory and governance consultancy led by Alok Karkera, a Chartered Accountant and former CFO with 26+ years in banking and financial services. We work with growing companies on governance and risk readiness.

  • A governance and risk adviser who understands both the numbers and the boardroom. ACAI helps boards and management teams sharpen what is reported, how it is framed and which risks need a decision, so the board sees the right information before it commits.

  • Through a focused advisory engagement. ACAI provides senior corporate advisory on business models, financial strategy and operational efficiency, scoped to a defined problem and period, so you get CFO-level thinking without a permanent hire.

  • ACAI’s Management Upskilling service builds the technical understanding and judgement that senior managers need as they take on board-level duties, including governance, financial oversight and AI-related risk.

  • ACAI supports organisations through leadership and succession transitions, with a focus on governance, continuity and board oversight. Alok has written on succession planning in the ACAI Booster Shots series.

  • Yes. Cross-Border Facilitation is one of ACAI’s core services, with a specialised focus on market entry and operations between Singapore and India.

  • Yes. ACAI's Strategic Corporate Advisory includes AI presence: we review how AI tools find and describe your firm, identify gaps and inconsistencies, and set out what to fix on your website and public profiles.