Dr. Wong Tze Yow is a career banker and have worked 32 years in various financial institutions in the areas of International Banking, Offshore Banking, Wholesale Banking, Consumer Banking, Operations, and Information Technology. He started his career in RHB Bank and became the Head of Data Centre and Operations in 1998, progressed to Standard Chartered Bank in Wholesale Banking and Consumer Banking as Directors role in Transaction Banking and Personal Banking respectively. In 2010, he joined Maybank and later stationed in Hong Kong for an international posting to cover Greater China, Indochina, and the Philippines.
Dr. Wong holds senior management positions in these banks, the last role as Group Managing Director Transaction Banking, Maybank including chairmanships and directorships in industry representations namely BAFTA in New York, ASEAN Banking Association in Singapore, HKACEF in Hong Kong and International Chambers of Commerce (ICC), Malaysia. He is a regular speaker in SWIFT SIBOS, The Assets Hong Kong and The Asian Banker (TAB), Singapore.
Dr. Wong holds a DBA from Universiti Malaya Wales, an MBA from Southern Cross University, Australia and has attended various executive education programmes in Havard Business School, USA, Asian Institute of Management, Philippines and IMD Business School, Switzerland. He is a Fellow of Universiti Malaya and Fellow in Malaysian Institute of Management (MIM).
Dr. wong holds memberships with Institute Corporate Directors Malaysia (ICDM), Singapore Institute of Directors (SID) and the Asian Institute of Chartered Bankers (AICB).