Nick Gan

CEO

Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia25 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led real estate transformation across Asia Oceania.
  • Achieved significant cost savings in operational excellence.
  • Managed large-scale real estate projects with strategic impact.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Real Estate and Facilities Management expert with a strong focus on strategic project leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementLeadershipFacility ManagementVendor ManagementMarketingSales ManagementIt ManagementIt Support

Other Skills

Change ManagementContract ManagementContract NegotiationOperations ManagementProcess ManagementTeam LeadershipBusiness AnalysisIT Service ManagementSupply Chain ManagementBusiness StrategyStrategic PlanningITILBusiness Process ImprovementCommercial Real EstateNegotiation

About

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Experience

25 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
8 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Shell

12 roles

Real Estate Strategic Contract Manager & BA for Asia Oceania & Qatar

Promoted

Nov 2025Present · 5 mos

  • A member of regional AOQ real estate leadership team. Responsible for strategic contract and request to pay delivery for global and local contracts.
Project ManagementChange ManagementLeadershipVendor Management

Real Estate Transformation Lead Asia Oceania | Integrated Facilities Mgmt Contract Strategy

Oct 2024Dec 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • VP-1 / GM level and part of Real Estate Asia Oceania Leadership Team.
  • Accountable for implementing a “renewed” IFM contract across a large number of different asset archetypes (corp. offices, fuel and lubricants plants, tech centers etc.) within the Asia Oceania (AO) region.
  • Regional Contract Holder IFM and Asset Protection across the AO region.
  • Part of asset divestment, responsible for transitioning RE Bukom/SJI team to new counterparty.
Project ManagementChange ManagementContract ManagementLeadership

Head Of Real Estate | Integrated Facilities Mgmt. SG & MY | Business & Contract Asia

Promoted

Aug 2021Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • At VP-1 / GM level and part of Real Estate Asia Oceania Leadership Team
  • Accountable for Shell Real Estate managed sites in Singapore & Malaysia:
  • Singapore: 2x Industrial Refineries, 1xLubricant Plant, 1x Fuels Terminal & 1x Corporate Multi-Tenant HQ office.
  • Malaysia: 2xJV upstream assets and 1x Corporate Multi-Tenant HQ Office & 1x Training Centre. Updated: Q3-Q4 2023 Added 4x Fuels Terminal in West MY into my patch’s accountability.
  • Asia Pacific/Oceania: Lead Facilities Business Growth & Expansion, Contract Mgmt. & Tendering, Supplier Performance Management to align with company’s powering progress ambition.
  • Total Dimension : 3.6M sqm.
  • Annual Budget (OPEX and CAPEX) : USD restricted (13 assets as of year 2023 excl. site expansion/growth in the pipeline)
  • Leader of Community
  • Total Direct Employees - 23 staff
  • Indirect Suppliers - 500+ staff
Project ManagementFacility ManagementLeadershipContract Management

Real Estate Business Manager Asia Oceania

Promoted

Jan 2020Aug 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Role expanded to Asia Oceania.
  • Major Deliverables
  • 1. Continue to expand Real Estate footprint within the Asia Oceania region with six major sites coming on stream.
  • 2. Delivering global facilities management global RFP exercise (i.e. tender, evaluate, award, deploy and perform) for RE managed sites for the region.
  • 2021 Achievements
  • 1. Q1 2021: Onboarded to RE by managing E2E IFM services for
  • Shell Retail training facilities in Philippines.
  • Shell Jurong Island refinery, Singapore (1.5M sqm)
  • Shell Miri Lutong and Plaza KK office
  • 2. Successfully Transitioned Asia 5x resources, contract performance and process control management activities to centralised team Shell BPO in India.
  • 2020 Achievements
  • 1. Onboarded to RE by managing non hydrocarbon asset SIngapore Tuas Lubrications Plant with a total 1M sqft in size.
  • 2. Onboarded E2E IFM services for two Shell VIetnam corporate offices located in Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi with a total 10k sqft in size.
  • 3. Lead and Delivered a regional Facility Mgmt. transition of 40 sites (across 7 countries MY, SG, India, China/HK, TH, PH, Indonesia) to a refreshed supplier via a global RFP exercise with double digit savings
  • Note: RFP commercials are confidential.
Project ManagementChange ManagementLeadershipVendor Management

Real Estate Facilities Business Manager Asia

Jan 2018Jan 2020 · 2 yrs

  • Responsible strategically to identify and deliver Real Estate Facilities Management (FM) growth within the Asia region.
  • Collaborate with FM Site Managers across Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, India, Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia) to ensure Global Facilities Management Program (GFMP) partner’s scorecards, innovation, customer experience program, benchmarking, processes and regional/global initiative are delivered via the contract performance management team.
  • Support HSSE Real Estate team by continuously aiming for Zero-LTI (Loss Time Injury) and Zero-LSR (Life Saving Rules) on Real Estate managed sites.
  • Achievements by delivering 5 key strategic sites/locations on Asia’s RE foot print expansion from 2017-2020
  • 1. Bukom Manufacturing Refinery, Singapore (2.4M sqm)
  • 2. Downstream Retail Training Center, Malaysia (60k sq ft)
  • 3. Downstream Lubricant Oil Blending Plant, Taloja Mumbai India (700k sq ft)
  • 4. Midstream Hazira LNG Terminal and Port, Gujarat India (6.1m sq ft)
  • 5. Ahmedabad Office, Gujarat, India (18k sq ft)
  • 6. Gresik Terminal, Surabaya Indonesia (80k sq ft)
  • 7. Etc. Other Strategic sites in development and OPEX per site remains confidential.
Project ManagementFacility ManagementLeadership

Head of Site Facilities Management Malaysia/Indonesia

Promoted

Feb 2016Jan 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Head of Real Estate FM services responsible for several Malaysia/Indonesia corporate office and holiday assets totaling approx. 1.0 M sqft. Delivering a conducive, fit for purpose working facilities and environment for over 1600 employees in Malaysia. A dynamic and lean team size over 10 employees (L3 - direct) and 100+ employees (L4 - indirect) rendered from collaborative partnership with JLL Malaysia.
  • As a continuous improvement/six sigma green belt specialist,
  • 1. I had achieved savings in less than 9 months on the role of approx. USD1M by sharpening operational excellence of holiday asset rationalization, car park, energy savings plan and building contractual content and lease agreement review/renewal in collaboration with other work-stream such as JLL, Legal, C&P and RE teams within the Asia-Pacific Oceania region.
  • 2. Constructing a fit for purpose employee hub comprising gym, café, yoga area, mother’s room, games & collaboration area.
  • 3. VP award winner (2018) for mothballing 7 floors and then reposition/restacking employees to achieve 80% space utilisation. All 7 floors are then sublease and achieved 85% recovery of rental rate.
Project ManagementFacility ManagementLeadership

Global Supplier Services Performance Manager

May 2013Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Lead and Collaborate with global IT providers (AT&T, HPE, T-System) by ensuring services are delivered per contract vendor management obligations. Design and improves contractual service level KPIs through contract negotiation, deep check and continuous improvement exercise with respective IT technology stream owners. The deep check exercise garnered an average year on year savings at approx. USD15M p/annum.
Project ManagementFacility ManagementLeadership

Retail Fuels Portolio Manager MY/SG/HK - Marketing

Promoted

Oct 2010May 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Lead, Plan and Deliver a five year fuels portfolio plan for Malaysia (MY), Singapore (SG) and Hong Kong (HK). The robust portfolio plan supports the brand building and marketing campaigns on fuels product ranging from main grade fuels of Shell FuelSave, Shell Diesel, Shell Bio-Fuels to high performance fuels of Shell V-Power across 1000 retail stations within the cluster of MY, SG and HK. The brand and marketing calendar are often tied up with either Lubricants, Payment/Loyalty, Commercial Fleet and Non Fuels Retailing (Select shop, Shell's in house convenience retailing branded shop with other prominent co-locator). Just to highlight several key achievements such as re formulating a fuel that garnered saving of USD21M p/annum in Malaysia, successfully launched Shell V-Power in Macau and designed/implemented a marketing campaign with Bonuslink which delivered a national fuels growth of 7%.
Vendor ManagementContract NegotiationLeadership

Retail Territory Manager - Sales & Operations

Promoted

Jun 2008Oct 2010 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Part of a sales team that manages the operational excellence, HSSE, fuels and non-fuels volume performance and overall profitability of 35 retail petrol stations (direct) and 60 retails station (in direct) in a particular northern district envelope of Malaysia. Key achievements is having the ability to turnaround an assigned territory (35 stations) from bottom 3 ranking to top 3 within 12 months on the role. The stations within my jurisdiction subsequently contributes between a 5% to 7% financial year on year growth within an approx. 900 petrol stations across the country.
Project ManagementMarketingLeadership

Global IT Operations & Process Manager

Feb 2005Jun 2008 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Leader of community of approx. 120 IT employees across Europe, Americas and Asia-Pacific. Lead and implement global operational processes. Additional job scope (1 year) for being part of a core team that successful migrate IT services from Europe/Americas to Bangalore, India via partnership with Wipro. This migration program achieved savings of approx. USD20M.
Sales ManagementOperations Management

Regional IT Service Desk Team Leader

Promoted

Feb 2002Feb 2005 · 3 yrs

  • Leader of teams of approx. 45 IT employees in Asia-Pacific. Lead a team that deliver IT supports to Shell staff across all businesses. In addition to my job scope (1 year), i had successfully set-up and transition UNIX-LINUX service desk from Aberdeen, Scotland and Miri, Sarawak to Cyberjaya. This newly setup additional team size of 15 staff provides global 24x7 Unix/Linux front line support to all Shell Exploration and Production customers. The migration exercise garnered approx. USD2M savings.
IT ManagementProcess Management

Service Desk IT Analyst

Feb 2001Feb 2002 · 1 yr

  • Part of a team that provide IT solutions to shell staff across the Asia-Pacific region. Best problem solver and subsequently promoted to Regional Team Leader within 1 year on the job.
IT SupportTeam Leadership

Shell singapore

Real Estate (RE) Business Opportunity Manager

Jan 2017Mar 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Singapore

  • Special Project - Delivering Business Growth within the Asia region:
  • Lead and conducted a robust feasibility study to on-board a complex manufacturing site by adopting the Real Estate (RE) Global Facilities Management Platform model.
  • Feasibility study outcome to support the entire master planning exercise.
  • RE on-boarded the manufacturing site delivering FM services commencing via a transition period from 1st Dec 2017 and go-live effective 1st March 2018.
IT Support

Shell malaysia limited

Real Estate (RE) Business Opportunity Manager

Aug 2016Jun 2017 · 10 mos · Malaysia

  • Lead a total of 4 non core asset rationalisation/ disposal in Malaysia.
Project ManagementBusiness Analysis

Ericsson

IT Solutions Analyst

Sep 2000Feb 2001 · 5 mos · Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

Project ManagementBusiness Analysis

Education

University of Southern Queensland

Master of Business Administration (MBA) — International Business

Jan 2006Jan 2008

The George Washington University

Certified Business Analyst (CBA)

Jan 2005Jan 2006

Universiti Sains Malaysia

Computer Science/IT

Jan 1997Jan 2000

SMSU Subang Jaya High School

High School Diploma / SPM

Jan 1996Present

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