Gary Chan,
Senior Consultant and Trainer
Gary Chan is a Digital Transformation & AI Practitioner, helping organisations adopt AI to drive growth and navigate ethical risks.
Gary Chan is a Digital Transformation & AI Practitioner, Go-to-Market Leader, and Educator helping organizations deploy applied AI systems, drive regional growth, and establish responsible AI governance.
Over a 25-year career running marketing, channel strategy, and communications across 17+ Asia Pacific markets at Microsoft, Nokia, and StarHub, Gary has consistently bridged high-level business strategy with operational execution. At Microsoft, he led teams to 10 consecutive years above revenue targets and was recognized with the Microsoft FY20 Marketing Hero Award as well as an EFFIE Award for end-to-end campaign ownership. He restructured agency ecosystems to reduce non-working costs by 80% and leveraged AI across targeting, social listening, persona modeling, and RPA-automated demand flows to boost marketing return on spend by 40%.
Beyond executive leadership, Gary is an active full-stack software developer who writes production Python and deploys AI architecture in real-world corporate and non-profit environments. His recent technical work includes building and deploying a real-time multilingual transcription and translation platform. Having served as a Board Chairperson for over two decades, Gary combines deep technical fluency with governance expertise—authoring formally adopted corporate AI use policies that cover ethical boundaries, disclosure, and organizational risk management.
Gary holds a B.Sc. (Hons) First Class in Business Information Technology from the University of Westminster, an M.A. in Theology & Ministry from King’s College London, a Professional Diploma with Distinction in Full Stack Software Development with AI, and is an AsiaGlobal Fellow at the University of Hong Kong. He has also completed executive certification in Applied AI in Digital Transformation and Change Management with Boston Consulting Group and is currently pursuing an M.Sc. in Computer Science.
