Chehan counts for over 28 years’ experience in managing research and financial services businesses based in South-East Asia and South Asia. Having begun his career with the prestigious ABN AMRO Group in1995, he quickly progressed to heading the research operations in Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Mauritius for ABN AMRO and covering strategy, banks and several other sectors. He was also part of the Group’s equities management team for the ASEAN region.

In 2005, Chehan ventured out on his own and co-founded Insite Equity, Singapore – an equity research house which by 2006, partnered with leading Malaysian stockbroker KAF Seagroatt & Campbell Securities to freshly set up an institutional equities business. Over the next decade, Chehan was instrumental in building this into a competitive and well-respected institutional equities business which established global partnerships with the RBS Group and the New York based Jefferies Group.

In 2016, Chehan was invited by Malaysian sovereign fund Valuecap Sdn Bhd as Head, Capital Market Research and establish an ASEAN research team with an ESG focus which, he completed in a short span of time.