Advisory Board

Mr. Tony Chin was appointed to the Advisory Board in 2021.

He completed his Bachelor of Commerce degree majoring in Accounting, Economics and Commercial Law at the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1979. Professionally, he is a Fellow Member of both Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia.

Mr. Tony Chin was most recently the Independent Non Executive Chairman of the Board at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Malaysia Berhad (“SMBCMY”). He joined the Bank in 2015 as an Independent Non-Executive Director (INED) and was appointed Chairman in 2018. During his tenure as an INED at SMBCMY, he served as Chairman of both the Board Audit Committee and the Board Nominations and Remuneration Committee, and as a member of the Board Risk Management Committee. Mr. Tony Chin has over 30 years experience in the Banking and Finance industry. He spent 14 years with the international banking Group; Societe Generale (listed on the Paris Stock Exchange) at its offices in Melbourne, Australia, Singapore and at the Labuan Offshore Financial Centre, Malaysia.

Since 1998, Mr. Tony Chin has been a business consultant and corporate adviser to both public listed and unlisted companies in Malaysia as a Corporate and Debt Restructuring specialist. He has also held senior management positions and served as an INED in several public listed companies in Malaysia and Singapore. Mr. Tony Chin was the Group Chief Executive Officer of Denko Industrial Corporation Berhad, a company listed on Bursa Malaysia between November 2011 and May 2015.