Michael Chan

Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Michael Chan is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer responsible for all aspects of Textainer’s finance function including Accounting, Treasury, Investor Relations, Risk Management, and FP&A. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President of Finance, overseeing Accounting, Treasury, and FP&A. Although he recently joined in 2017, he is well known to the company as this is his second tenure with Textainer. During his first stint, he served as Controller from 1994 to 2006. He brings extensive experience having successfully raised nearly $6 billion in capital during his 18 years in the equipment finance and leasing industry.

From 2015-2017, Michael was CFO at Ygrene Energy Fund, a market-leading specialty finance company, where he raised nearly $1 billion in capital and achieved the industry’s first AAA rating on the company’s senior notes. From 2011 to 2015, he worked as Senior Director of Treasury and Capital Markets for The Cronos Group, a leading global container leasing company which was acquired by Shenzhen stock exchange listed Bohai Leasing Company. Before that, he held the CFO position at Chartres Lodging Group from 2006-2011, where he was instrumental in executing key acquisitions and sales for the hotel investment and asset management company. He started his career in 1989 as an Audit Manager with Coopers & Lybrand, now PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Michael is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and holds a BS in Business Administration – Accounting from California State University East Bay.