Ed Chan is a co-founder and non-executive chair of Chan & Naylor, a model firm studied by students when completing their MBA at the University of Queensland and for Accounting students passing their CPA exam. He is a graduate from the Sydney's University of Technology with a Degree in Business (Accounting Major) and worked in the Chartered Accounting environment for many years before starting Chan & Naylor from a small home office and growing it into a National Financial Services Organisation with offices in most major capital cities around Australia that services more than 10,000 clients. Mr Chan is a regular keynote speaker in many property seminars around Australia, and is recognised as one of Australia’s foremost authorities on tax and property. He has co-authored 4 best-selling books in subjects covering “How to Legally Reduce Your Tax” to “Creating Wealth for Life through Property Investing”, “Buying Property with your Self Managed Superfund” and how to run a successful Small Business called “From Small to Great”. Mr Chan is also a regular contributor to many magazines and publications around Australia, and speaks at many business seminars around Australia in Best Practice Methodologies on how to build successful businesses. He has presented at the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Institute of Public Accountants and Australian Society of CPA’s and was the keynote speaker at the annual National Congress of the Australian Taxation Office in Canberra. As a way of giving back to the accounting industry, Mr Chan contributes at a board and strategic level to many independent accountancy firms, helping them improve their efficiencies and run better businesses, resulting in better work-life balance. He also sits on various steering committees at a higher educational level in helping to shape the educational outcomes of students.
