A Curtin accounting graduate has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of Hong Kong-based manufacturer Highway Holdings Ltd.<\/p>\n
Alan Chan, 47, has succeeded Po Fong in the top accounting job at the company.<\/p>\n
Mr Chan began his career as an accountant with Australian CPA firm Nelson Wheeler and later with PricewaterhouseCoopers.<\/p>\n
He earned a Master of Arts degree in accounting from Curtin after taking a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Lancaster in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
Mr Chan, a Hong Kong national, is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and English.<\/p>\n
Most recently he served as chief financial officer for a joint venture in China with Laureate Education Group.<\/p>\n
He previously served as vice president and chief financial officer for DeCoro, an Italian sofa manufacturer – supervising more than 30 accounting professionals.<\/p>\n
Mr Chan’s experience includes serving as financial controller for San Miguel Shunde Brewery Co Ltd, a joint venture that manufactures and sells beer in China and other markets.<\/p>\n
“Alan’s extensive background in finance and accounting, combined with his extensive knowledge and experience of operating in China, provides our organisation with a unique combination of qualities that will serve the company well …” said Highway Holdings CEO and President Roland Kohl.<\/p>\n
Highway Holdings produces components for equipment manufacturers, and finished products including light fixtures, LED lights and radio chimes. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Curtin accounting graduate appointed Chief Financial Officer of Hong Kong manufacturer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-4712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 17:07:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4712"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=4712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}