Benson Chan: From Accountant to Hedge Fund CEO

Benson’s journey

I am a professional accountant, a psychologist and an entrepreneur. I received my training from Deloitte and was qualified there. Afterwards, I entered into the investment banking industry to pursue my interest in financial management and corporate finance. As an investment banker, I advised clients on IPOs, M&As and fund raising. At the same time, I completed an MBA.

I am now the CEO, Asia Pacific (excluding China) of a fast-growing hedge fund and I am responsible for technology development and innovation for the group. I chose the Cambridge Master of Accounting programme because of the world class faculty and the content of the programme, in particular leadership training and analytics in financial information. The most challenging part of the programme for me was coding for relational databases and predictive analytics. However, though it was challenging, I found it very interesting and useful in my career.