Summary
Dominic Chan is an accomplished academic and business strategist who combines an engineering PhD from Cambridge with over two decades of hands-on experience in strategic consulting, entrepreneurship and higher education leadership. As Director of MSc Aviation Management and Associate Professor at CUHK Business School, he blends curriculum leadership with real-world deal-making, having previously advised clients at McKinsey and led China-facing ventures. He founded Decisive Consulting and co-founded an investment vehicle, applying deep expertise in market entry, due diligence, e-commerce and telecom across Greater China and Asia. Fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese, Dominic is known for turning technical insight—from his DSP research and systems development roots—into commercially viable products and scalable business models. His network spans top-tier consulting, academia and private investors, and he routinely bridges startup execution with institutional strategy. Outside work he publishes personal projects and maintains two websites, reflecting a long-standing habit of combining technical curiosity with entrepreneurial storytelling.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
GCE A-levels and O-levels, Mathematics and Science, GCE A-levels and O-levels, Mathematics and Science at Victoria College Jersey
PhD, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Information Engineering, PhD, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Information Engineering at University of Cambridge
English, chinese, mandarin, chinese, cantonese, French, Japanese