Adj. Prof. Paul W Chan
Chairman, Perpetual Trustees Berhad
Paul is the Senior Independent Non Executive Director (Sr.INED) and Audit Committee Chairman of AwanBiru Technology Bhd, an IT Services Company listed in Bursa Malaysia, and INED in SGX-listed Audience Analytics Ltd. He had served on numerous Boards of Public Listed Companies and Privately-Owned Companies in industries such as Port Facilities Operations, Manufacturing, an Industrial Group, Life Insurance & Financial Services,Industrial Chemical, Asset Management, Media and in Regulatory Committees and not-for-profit Professional entities. He had served as Chairman of Audit, Nomination, and Risk Committees, a member of Finance & Investment, and Remuneration Committees.
In December 1999, Paul was instrumental in setting up the Financial Planning Association of Malaysia (FPAM) as its Founding Board Member and Vice President and introduced the CFP (Certified Financial Panner) Certification programme to Malaysia. He graduated from The American College, Pennsylvania, USA, in 1989 as Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) and Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU). He is also a Certified Senior Advisor (CSA) from Denver,Colorado. Financial Planning was an extension of his practice as a Chartered Accountant/CPA, a Chartered Secretary, and in Business/Strategic Consultancy.
Paul is the President & Co-Founder of Malaysian Alliance of Corporate Directors (MACD) in February 2009, a not-for-profit, independent, membership entity, and Vice President I of Federation of Public Listed Companies (FPLC). He brings his wide knowledge, experience, and practices in Financial Planning, including Trust Advisory Services, to the Corporate Sector.
He serves on the Strategic and Membership Committees of GNDI (Global Network of Director Institutes) that has 24 leading Director Institutes globally with over 150,000 individual members. He has delivered and facilitated numerous presentations in forums, seminars, workshops, and conferences, locally and internationally, on issues of Corporate Governance, Board Practices, Directorship, Integrated Value Creation and Corporate Reporting. He serves on the global ESG Exchange Advisory Committee, based in South Africa.
A Chartered Accountant, a Fellow Member of, respectively, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA, UK), the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (FCIS)/Chartered Governance Institute (FCG, UK), and CPA Australia (FCPA), he is also an NACD Governance Fellow and NACD Board Leadership Fellow of the National Association of
Corporate Directors, and a Life-Member of Ascend Pinnacle Asian Corporate Directors, USA. He is an Adjunct Practice Professor in Sunway University Business School.
Paul is the President of Business Transitions Asia Sdn Bhd, a boutique strategic business advisory firm. He is based in Malaysia and travels widely in ASEAN, Asia-Pacific, the US and Europe.