David Tran

David joined Actis in 2018 and is a member of the South East Asia Real Estate investment team.

He came on board when Actis purchased Standard Chartered Bank’s Principal Finance Real Estate group (PFRE) where, for 6 years he was responsible for the evaluation and execution of real estate investment opportunities across the South East Asian markets, focusing on Vietnam and Malaysia.

Prior to joining PFRE, David was an International Graduate at Standard Chartered Bank where he was one of the top performers and ranked second in his graduate class of 162.

Before that, he spent two years at Singapore Airlines, representing the company in the negotiations with the pilot and cabin crew unions, notably in resolving the salary package for the world’s first commercial Superjumbo A380 aircraft pilots.

Overall, he has 11 years of commercial business experience, of which 7 years were directly in real estate. David holds an M.B.A (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Notre Dame and a B.E. degree in Computer Engineering (First Class Honours, straight Dean’s List in 4 years) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.