Founder & Author of To Bank or Not to Bank; From Pauper to Millionaire, From Hopeless to Hopeful, Loi Chan has lived the American dream, from “Pimp” in Macau to Executive Vice President in a global bank. Born to a wealthy Chinese family, he lived in abject poverty after his family fled for their lives to Macau from Mao’s Regime.

Through sheer determination and a touch of luck he started his banking career with Citigroup after
graduating from the Moore School of Business at The University of South Carolina with a Master’s in International Business in 1979.

For 27 years, he worked for major American and European banks in nine countries across four continents and ultimately retired from international banking in 2006 after serving as EVP and Country Head of Consumer Banking in Thailand, China and Korea for the London based Standard Chartered Bank.

A significant disillusion caused him to start some serious soul searching to discover the mystery of how to live a good life. He gave up his banking career to launch the Save Exploited Women Foundation, a non profit charitable organization incorporated in the State of Washington to rehabilitate prostitutes and battered women. Majority of book sales royalty will go toward funding his charity work. His website is www.SaveExploitedWomen.org.

Loi has two adult children. He and his American wife live in a small western Washington farm that he nicknamed “The Leiteng Estate” in memory of his mother.

Book royalties of To Bank or Not To Bank: From Pauper to Millionaire, From Hopeless to Hopeful will go toward funding his charity work.