After working in the United Kingdom for a period in the mid-1990s, he returned to Singapore in search of broader and more promising career opportunities.
He joined one of the Big Four accounting firms, where he specialised in serving financial institutions for three years. After qualifying as a Singapore Certified Public Accountant (CPA), he left the firm to join a Singapore-based bank, where he was responsible for fraud investigations across the entire institution. He later moved on to a publicly listed company in Singapore, serving as a department head, before venturing out on his own to establish a finance and accounting school.
In early 2012, as Myanmar began to open up, he returned to his home country. Over the years that followed, he worked across various private enterprises that he and his wife had established together. This period continued until the nation found itself on a knife edge following extraordinary circumstances arising from the disputed 2020 elections.