Jeffrey Chew Sun Teong

Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), United Kingdom

Fellow of the Asian Institute of Chartered Bankers (AICB)

Member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants

Mr Jeffrey Chew, a Malaysian, aged 60,  joined Paramount on 1 July 2014 as Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and was appointed to the Board on 8 June 2015.

Under his leadership, Paramount has achieved sustained growth and diversification. Since 2015, Paramount has launched 20 property projects in Selangor and Kedah and expanded into Penang in 2016 and Kuala Lumpur in 2021. It also strengthened its regional footprint through a joint-venture property development in Bangkok in 2020 and in 2024, further enhanced its international presence via an equity investment offering access to the United Kingdom and Australian property markets.

Guided by his strategic vision, Paramount achieved a significant milestone in 2024 with the issuance of its first sustainability-linked sukuk, reinforcing the Group’s commitment to integrating business practices with environmental stewardship. In the same year, the Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework received a Gold Impact Assessment from MARC Ratings Berhad.

In 2025, Mr Chew led the strategic investment of Envictus International Holdings Limited (Envictus), expanding the Group into the high growth food and beverage sector, and was subsequently appointed a Non-Executive Non-Independent Director of Envictus.

He unlocked value in the pre-tertiary education segment by scaling Paramount’s single-campus school operations into Malaysia’s largest pre-tertiary education group by 2019, followed by a full exit from the business in 2022. In 2018, Paramount divested the majority stake of its home-grown KDU tertiary education institutions to the University of Wollongong, an Australian public university.

Paramount and its businesses received multiple industry recognitions, including Top Five and Top 10 rankings at the Malaysia Developer Awards 2025 and StarProperty Awards 2025, respectively.

Prior to joining Paramount, Mr Chew spent over two decades in the banking industry. He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1987 and, thereafter, joined Citibank Berhad in 1991, leaving as General Manager of Commercial Banking.

In 2003, he joined OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Berhad (OCBC) as Head of SME Businesses and was subsequently promoted to Head of Business Banking. He was then appointed Director and CEO of OCBC in August 2008, a position that he helmed for six years. During his tenure, he also served as a Director of Credit Bureau Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (CBM), Credit Guarantee Corporation Malaysia Berhad (CGC) and OCBC Al-Amin Bank Berhad.

Mr Chew was on the Advisory Committee of ACCA Malaysia until 2017 and was a member of the Small Debt Resolution Committee of Bank Negara Malaysia until December 2023. He is currently an Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Asian Banking School.