Trainer | Writer
Datuk John was a member of the working party that launched the Green Book on CG in 1999 and was involved in the roll out of the Malaysian Code in 2000. He was a member of the working party that drew up the Malaysian Corporate Governance Blueprint in 2011 and the MCCG 2012 and drafted the IOSCO Emerging Markets Corporate Governance Task Force report on behalf of the Securities Commission in 2016.
He speaks regularly on leadership and governance and wrote for The Star on governance-related topics (2007-2013). He was voted “Writer of the Year” on CG matters in 2014 by the Minority Shareholders Watchdog Group. His other specialties are “Leading Brand-Based Change”, “Reconciling Leadership and Governance” and “Ethics in Business”. He has led board effectiveness evaluations in banking, insurance and government entities and has written codes of conduct and board charters for several development banks. He is a certified training professional who has done extensive training in branding and leadership.
Since 2007, he has trained more than 1,500 directors in CG as well as senior managers of public listed companies. He has also trained ASEAN regulators on behalf of the Securities Commission Malaysia and the Australian Government as part of their capacity building programs in ASEAN and APEC.
From 2001-2006, Datuk John was Associate Professor of Marketing and Strategy at Nottingham University Business School, Malaysia Campus and was responsible for the MBA programme. Before coming to Malaysia in late 2000, Datuk John ran companies in a variety of industries across Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong.
