Winston Chan

Background

About Winston Chan

Winston is the CEO of FT Consulting - South East Asia's leading business consulting group founded in 1991. He is a winner of the Rotary Club of Singapore - Association of Small & Medium Enterprise's Entrepreneur of the Year award 2023/24, Singapore's most established entrepreneur award.Listed in “IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists” since 2018, Winston has been actively involved in franchising, technology transfer, strategic planning, branding, innovation and IP management projects across countries for almost 2 decades.Before joining FT Consulting, Winston was asset manager with CapitaLand - one of Asia’s largest real estate companies. He had also previously held a management position at the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), a Statutory Board under the Ministry of Law. Until recently, he successfully served six years as board director and chairman of Audit Committee of IPOS International, before retiring as board member in July 2025. He continues to further the IP cause as World Intellectual Property Organization's appointed Lead Consultant for the ASEAN IPR Action Plan 2026-2030.Winston graduated as the top student from the Singapore Management University’s Master of Science in Innovation (MI) in 2017 with an unprecedented perfect GPA score of 4.0/4.0. He was the first Singaporean to have completed the KIPO-WIPO-KAIST-KIPA Advanced International Certificate Course in Intellectual Property Rights (AICC) in Seoul, South Korea in 2014. He was also the first in Singapore’s IP sector to receive the Skillsfuture Fellowships award in 2019. Presented by the President of the Republic of Singapore, the Award honours individuals as masters of skills and mentors of future talent. More recently, as a strong believer of life-long learning, he completed the Advanced Certificate in Learning and Performance (ACLP) course.