We are glad to announce that Wong Loke Suan, Chris Daniel has received our Honorary Doctorate Degree with specialization of Management.
Chris is a serial entrepreneur and corporate restructuring strategist. He
specialises in capital market and capital raising. He founded CoMetro
Capital & Private Equity since 2013 with a few like minded investor
entrepreneur and has become very active in the group since 2016 and
lead them as its CEO/GP and Director since 2017. He is currently the lead
advisor for several local companies embarking on IPO listing in Bursa Malaysia and Singapore
Exchange. He sits in two listed company in Singapore and one listed company in Australia as the
board of directors/shareholders and several regional private limited companies board of directors.
Chris is also the partner to Max Capital Holdings Ltd, a global venture and investment company
where he co-founded the Global Investment Community (GIC). He co-founded 12 companies in
various businesses such as medical wellness, ICT, eCommerce, and manufacturing. He is the Channel
Partner of Ata Plus, a recognised market operator in equity crowd funding and Venture Partner of
Singapore Digital Exchange (SDAX). He holds a fund management license from Labuan Financial
Services Authority (LFSA) and is also an Associate Partner of 5 Pillars Venture a registered Venture
Capital Management Corporation with Securities Commission Malaysia.
Prior to this Chris was the Director of Informatics Malaysia, a subsidiary company that is listed on
Singapore Exchange, Director of Dawood Holdings Malaysia where his portfolio includes managing
key client account such as Citibank, HSBC, OCBC Bank, BASF, Xyratex, Petronas, Petrovietnam, Exxon
Mobil and Gazprom to name a few. He was also the consultant to Bank Bumiputra Commerce and
was involved in the transformation of the bank from the old entity to CIMB Bank today where he
developed the business plan for the transformation of the bank's branch and launch the first the
CIMB branch in Starhill Gallery, Kuala Lumpur. He was also the consultant to Citibank Malaysia,
assisting the bank to setup the Anti-Money Laundering Department and the Consultant to HSBC
Bank Malaysia assisting the bank to setup the customer call centre in Cyberjaya Malaysia.
Formerly he tutored for Ottawa University, USA and Salem International University, USA in Liberal
Arts & Management subjects, and Sabah Skills Institute, Malaysia in soft skills subjects. He graduated
with a PhD from University Malaya with a research in Private Equity and currently pursuing his
second PhD in Advanced Private Equity Research from AMU, an MBA from Asian Metropolitan
University (AMU), Malaysia; Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Ottawa University,
USA, and an Advanced Diploma in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Wigan & Leigh College,
UK. Currently Wong is researching his second PhD with Asian Metropolitan University in the field of
economics and finance. He also completed two corporate finance programmes with Harvard
Business School – Leading with Finance and Finance Accounting. Chris is the alumni member of
University of California Berkeley, Cheong Kong Graduate Business School and European School of
Management and Technology.
At his free time, he volunteers as an economy analyst in Astro Awani News and Bernama News.