Kevin Chin
Managing Director at Arowana International, investing, and Business Growth in Australia
As the founder of Arowana International (Arowana & Co.), Kevin Chin is an expert in turnaround management as well as transformational “scale up” growth of companies and has the rare combination of operational and financial engineering skills.
Kevin has extensive experience in “hands on” strategic and operational management having served as CEO, CFO and COO of various companies across a range of industries. Kevin Chin also has significant international experience in private equity, buyouts of public companies, mergers and acquisitions and capital raisings as well as funds management, accounting, litigation support and valuations.
Kevin has been primarily responsible for delivering annualised returns in excess of 30% to investors across Arowana & Co.s’ investments since its formation in 2007. This has been achieved through driving strategic and operational excellence with minimal leverage.
Over his 20 year career, Kevin Chin has held a number of strategic and operational leadership roles and was also previously with Lowy Family Group, J.P. Morgan in Sydney and New York, Ord Minnett, PWC and Deloitte.
Kevin holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales where he was one of the inaugural University Co-Op Scholars with the School of Banking and Finance.
Kevin Chin is also a qualified Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of FINSIA, where he was a lecturer in the Masters of Applied Finance programme.