Leon Lai

Head of Strategic Sourcing, Japan & Asia Pacific Adobe

Leon is the Head of Strategic Sourcing for Japan and Asia Pacific at Adobe. He leads regional procurement strategies and sourcing activities in Asia across a wide range of functions with a focus on marketing. Prior to this, Leon started his career as a sales engineer with Hitachi in Singapore. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University and Japanese language proficiency in Waseda University, Leon was selected to work for Mitsubishi’s procurement group in Japan as part of their globalization efforts. Leon has also recently completed his studies in leading global businesses at Harvard Business School. Now in Adobe, Leon has transformed the regional procurement by repositioning it from an operational to strategic function. He strongly believes in investing in stakeholder-supplier relationship management for critical spend and a self-service approach for non-critical spend, procurement will remain scalable for the future to maximize value as a trusted business partner.