Fong Tuan leads the group’s overall people and culture transformation, driving bold talent strategy, building a future-fit workforce embedded in a performance-driven culture, to support the Group’s growth agenda. He is a Chartered Fellow of CIPD, UK, a qualified professional engineer holding an honours degree in Electrical Electronic Engineering, an MBA in Organizational Behaviour and a CFA. He is currently a Doctoral candidate researching on the reliability of quantitative correlation between psychometric traits with success profiles.

He started his career with Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia’s power utility company, where he was a scholar, subsequently leading and holding senior HR leadership roles for global MNCs and blue-chip corporations Coca Cola, OCBC, Watson Wyatt, British American Tobacco, Maybank Group, B Braun, Samsung and for one of Malaysia’s largest and most diverse consumer group, Berjaya Corporation. Most recently, he led people strategy, practices and policies in Maybank to accelerate the bank’s transformative, purpose-driven people plans. Fong Tuan has been personally recognized regionally including The Economic Times HR Icon 2023, 2024 and 2025 100 Top HR Leaders in Southeast Asia, and 40 Most Influential HR Leaders in Southeast Asia 2022.