Datin Hoi Lai Ping is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Zurich Life Insurance Malaysia Bhd since 2013, where she is the Chairman for the Nomination and Remuneration Committee (NRC) and Board Investment Committee. She is also a member of the Audit Committee and Risk Management Committee.

Datin Hoi joined the Board of FGV Holdings Bhd, a public listed company as an Independent Non-Executive Director in 2018. She was the Chairman of the Investment Committee, Chairman of Audit committee and a member of the NRC. She retired from FGV Holdings in June 2021.

Datin Hoi is also a Director of General Rewards Sdn Bhd, a private property investment holding company.

She also served as a Mentor for a leadership development programme by ICAEW and TalentCorp Malaysia between 2013-2018.

Datin Hoi graduated from Monash University in 1983 and started her career as a banker. She was in the banking industry for 11 years with Hong Leong Finance and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia where she was exposed to evaluation of property development projects, managed loan syndications, managed the credit department, business banking, corporate banking, implementation of risk rating, centralization and underwent two mergers.

Datin Hoi joined Accenture in 1994 specialising in Change Management and Financial Services Industry. She was the Head of the Financial Services Human Performance Service Line in ASEAN from the year 2000 and Lead for Lead for Talent and Organization Performance in Kuala Lumpur from year 2005. She retired as Partner of Accenture in 2009.

During her time in Accenture, she worked with major banks in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore on strategic changes and lead various merger integration of banks.

Datin Hoi is an author of Take on Change, the book that provides insights and perspectives for managing change in organisations.