Mr. Lai, Director and Portfolio Manager/Analyst on Lazard's Equity Advantage team. He began working in the investment field in 2002. Prior to joining Lazard in 2008, Mr. Lai was a Vice President and Quantitative Portfolio Manager in the Global Active Equity group at State Street Global Advisors (“SSgA”). Prior to that, he was an investment-banking analyst at Lehman Brothers Asia in Hong Kong.