Adam is an adjudicator of the Financial Industry Disputes Resolution Centre in Singapore, Affiliated Faculty of Singapore Management University and Associate lecturer in Singapore Institute of Management. He has conducted workshops for bank participants in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Bahrain, Shanghai, Sri Lanka and Pakistan and is one of the few successful developers of training programmes accredited under the Institute of Banking and Finance Standards.

He was previously a General Manager with Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore and Hong Kong), Director of Corporate Banking at the American Express Bank, Head of Cash Management and Trade Sales for DBS Bank Group and Vice President Director of a joint venture bank in Indonesia. He is credited with significantly growing global banks' SME assets by 450% over a 3-year period in Singapore and doubled the trade finance business in Hong Kong within a year. He also started a new cash management business for a leading bank in Asia and grew it to a multi-billion business annually.