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SENIOR SPH MANAGEMENT /26 FIRST ROW FROM LEFT Anthony Tan Chua Hwee Song Glen Francis Ginney Lim SECOND ROW FROM LEFT Mable Chan Ignatius Low Janice Wu Chua Wee Phong Julian Tan Warren Fernandez THRID ROW FROM LEFT Lee Huay Leng Goh Sin Teck Lim Swee Yeow Gaurav Sachdeva Sim Say Nee
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ANTHONY TAN and Managing Director of Tembusu In his most recent appointments, Glen
Deputy Chief Executive Officer Ventures Pte Ltd, where he managed was CIO for Global Logistic Properties
a private equity fund that invests in Limited (GLP) and Regional Head of
Anthony joined SPH in February 2015 growth companies throughout Asia IS, Asia Pacific, RS Components Pte
and was appointed to his current role since 2005. He was a director and Ltd (RS). Prior to RS, Glen worked at
as Deputy Chief Executive Officer on Group CFO of CWG International Aon as Regional Director for Asia
1 July 2016. Ltd from 2015 to 2018, prior to his Pacific, leading the development of
present role. a newly formed corporate initiative
He oversees the group’s media called Revenue Engine, and he has
business which includes titles such Prior to Tembusu, he was with the also worked in Intel (Xircom).
as The Straits Times, Lianhe Zaobao, Singapore Economic Development
Berita Harian, Tamil Murasu, as well Board, where he led the promotion Glen co-chairs Infocomm Media
as the SPH Radio network. of technology entrepreneurship Development Authority’s Immersive
and development of the enterprise Media & Advance Interface
Anthony also manages the Group’s financing infrastructure in Singapore, Technology workgroup, and is the
Silver Care business. with a specific focus on the industry ICT Programme Advisory Chairman
development of the venture capital for the Singapore University of Social
Anthony currently chairs several SPH and private equity industry. Sciences. He also serves as a member
subsidiaries, and sits on the board of of Republic Polytechnic’s Institutional
SP Group as well as several non- Hwee Song graduated in 1989 with Review Board.
profit/community organisations. a Bachelor of Engineering (First Class
Honours) in Electrical and Electronics Glen has an MBA degree from the
Prior to joining SPH, Anthony was Engineering from King’s College University of Adelaide.
Deputy Secretary (Policy), Ministry London, University of London, and he
of Health and concurrently Special is also a Chartered Financial Analyst
Assistant to the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew and Chartered Accountant. GINNEY LIM
(2011-2014). During his career with General Counsel;
the Singapore Public Service spanning Executive Vice-President,
more than 15 years, he served in GLEN FRANCIS Corporate Communications & CSR, and
various organisations including the Chief Technology Officer Group Company Secretary
Ministry of Finance, Home Affairs,
Manpower as well as the People’s Glen is the Chief Technology Officer Ginney heads the Secretariat/Legal
Association. of SPH. He serves on a number of Division and oversees the Corporate
executive boards and forums. Glen Communications & CSR Division
Anthony graduated from the National is digital, connected and enjoys of SPH. She is also the General
University of Singapore in 1997 creativity and innovation. He is also Manager of Singapore Press Holdings
with a Bachelor of Social Science well-respected by his peers in the Foundation Limited, an Institution of
(Honours) in Political Science. industry. Public Character established in 2003
He also has a Master of Science by SPH.
(Management) degree from the Glen founded CIO Academy Asia
Stanford Business School. and was its past President. At CIO When she joined SPH in 1991, she
Academy Asia, he helped develop was tasked to set up the Secretariat/
its brand and a thriving community of Legal Division. She is responsible
CHUA HWEE SONG CIOs and IT leaders across the Asia for the corporate secretarial,
Chief Financial Officer region. legal, insurance and corporate
communications functions in the SPH
Hwee Song was appointed as Chief Prior to CIO Academy Asia, Glen Group and sits on several steering
Financial Officer of SPH on 1 April co-founded IDeationEdgeAsia as a and senior management committees.
2018. non-profit association and served as
its President for 4 years. He was also
Hwee Song has many years of Vice President for IT Management
experience in investments and Association where he served for a
corporate finance. He was the founder period of 5 years.
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Ginney is a director of Times IGNATIUS LOW After graduation, Ignatius spent four
Development Pte Ltd, Orchard 290 Ltd Chief Marketing Officer years in the Singapore Administrative
and SPH REIT Management Pte Ltd, all Integrated Marketing Division Service. He served in the Ministry of
of which are wholly-owned property Finance and the Monetary Authority
subsidiaries of SPH. She is also a As Chief Marketing Officer, Ignatius of Singapore, and was mostly involved
member of the NUS Law Advisory leads the team that sells and executes in policy work relating to a major
Council and Temasek Junior College advertising and marketing solutions review of Singapore’s financial sector
Advisory Committee. across SPH’s print, digital, radio in 1998.
and outdoor media platforms. He
Prior to joining SPH, Ginney was also oversees Sweet, SPH’s content
heading the Legal & Secretariat marketing and creative services JANICE WU
department as well as the public agency. Executive Vice-President
relations arm of NTUC Income. Corporate Development
Ginney was admitted as an advocate Ignatius joined The Straits Times in
and solicitor of the Supreme Court 1999 as a correspondent for the Janice heads the Corporate
of Singapore and holds a Bachelor Money section, covering banking, Development Division. She
of Law (Honours) degree from the economics and telecoms. He later rose oversees mergers and acquisitions,
National University of Singapore. to the position of Money Editor and property tenders/acquisitions,
She is also a Fellow in the Institute moved on to several roles within the corporate planning and risk
of Chartered Secretaries and newsroom, including Sunday Times management.
Administrators and an Associate of the Editor and News Editor. In 2014,
Chartered Insurance Institute. he was appointed Managing Editor Janice has held various positions
of the newspaper, responsible for across functions in SPH, with active
newsroom operations including staff involvement in legal advisory
MABLE CHAN recruitment and deployment, budget work, M&A transactions, joint
Executive Vice-President and project management, strategic ventures, property tenders/
Human Resources, Administration and commercial partnerships and business acquisitions, corporate planning and
Times Properties development. He was also part of the analytics.
core management team that planned
Mable has been with SPH since and executed the newsroom’s digital She sits on the board of several
1997. Before taking over as Head transformation. companies, including SGX listed
of Human Resources Division in June MindChamps Preschool Limited and
2006, she was Senior Vice-President, In 2016, Ignatius was appointed iFast Corporation Ltd. She is also a
Customer Service Department, Head of Media Solutions in SPH’s director of SPH Radio Pte Ltd, The
Marketing Division. The Administration Integrated Marketing Division, where Seletar Mall Pte Ltd and SPH’s joint
Division and Times Properties were he was put in charge of the newly- venture companies for the mixed
added to her portfolio in 2014 and merged print, digital and radio ad development at Bidadari estate.
2015 respectively. sales teams.
Janice holds a Bachelor of Law
Prior to joining SPH, Mable was the Ignatius graduated from Oxford (Honours) degree from the National
Executive Director of the Marketing University in 1994 with a degree in University of Singapore and is
Institute of Singapore. Philosophy, Politics and Economics. qualified as an advocate and solicitor
During his time there, he was President of the Supreme Court of Singapore.
She holds a Bachelor of Applied of the Oxford University Malaysian Prior to joining SPH as a legal counsel,
Science degree from the South and Singapore Students’ Association. she was in private legal practice
Australian Institute of Technology and He obtained his university education and legal counsel in the Ministry of
a Masters in Business Administration on an Overseas Merit Scholarship Defence.
from the National University of from the Public Service Commission.
Singapore.
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CHUA WEE PHONG Julian is a Director on the Board of Currently he is a board member of
Executive Vice-President the Singapore Media Exchange the National Parks Board (NParks),
Circulation (SMX), a premium advertising National Heritage Board (NHB),
exchange joint venture between SPH SPH (Overseas) Ltd, Straits Times
Wee Phong has been with SPH for and MediaCorp, which he played a Press Pte Ltd, The Straits Times Press
24 years. He joined Circulation key role in setting up. He also sits on (1975) Limited, World Editors Forum
in May 1994 and was appointed the boards of various e-commerce (WEF), Asia News Network (ANN),
Division Head in May 2005. He is and online classifieds companies Singapore Symphony Group and
currently the Executive Chairman of like Qoo10, SgCarmart, Streetsine Chairman of The Straits Times School
Sphere Exhibits Pte Ltd. and Silver Indonesia. He is also the Pocket Money Fund.
Chairman of FastCo Pte Ltd, where he
Prior to joining SPH, Wee Phong drives a team of 30 to grow FastJobs
served in the Singapore Armed Forces – a non-executive recruitment platform LEE HUAY LENG
(SAF) for a period of 13 years. – across the region. Head
Chinese Media Group
He was promoted to the rank of Julian graduated with First Class
Colonel in 2005. He was awarded Honours in Economics from the Huay Leng was appointed Head of the
the Public Administration Medal London School of Economics and Chinese Media Group of SPH on
(Bronze) (Military) in August 2007. Political Science and earned two 1 December 2016. The Chinese
Executive Masters of Business Media Group includes Lianhe Zaobao,
Wee Phong graduated from the Administration (EMBA) degrees from Lianhe Wanbao, Shin Min Daily
National University of Singapore INSEAD and Tsinghua University in News, Student Publications, the digital
with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in 2009. platforms zaobao.sg, zaobao.com and
Sociology on an SAF scholarship. radio stations UFM100.3 and
96.3 Hao FM.
WARREN FERNANDEZ
JULIAN TAN Editor-in-Chief uay Leng started her journalistic
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Chief of Digital Business English/Malay/Tamil Media group career in Lianhe Zaobao in 1994
and Editor, The Straits Times upon graduation. She was with
Julian is the Chief of Digital Business the paper for 20 years in different
for SPH. In this role, he oversees SPH’s Warren is Editor-in-Chief of the roles as sports reporter, political
digital businesses and investments, English/Malay/Tamil Media group reporter, Hong Kong Correspondent,
leading the initiative to transform in SPH. He is also Editor of The Straits Beijing Bureau Chief, China Editor,
SPH’s digital businesses and expand Times, Singapore’s biggest selling News Editor and Deputy Editor. In
regionally. English daily newspaper. He joined January 2014, she took the helm of
the paper in 1990 as a political Lianhe Wanbao and was appointed
From 2008 to 2015, Julian was the reporter and rose to become News concurrently as Senior Vice-President
Chief Executive Officer of 701Search Editor. He later also served as Foreign (New Growth) of Lianhe Zaobao in
Pte Ltd, a regional online classifieds Editor and Deputy Editor. November 2015.
joint venture company between SPH,
Norway’s Schibsted and Telenor. He He left to join Royal Dutch Shell in For public service, Huay Leng currently
grew the business from a start-up in a 2008 as a Global Manager for its serves as a member of the Public
single location to a leading developer Future Energy project, before returning Transport Council, Founders’ Memorial
of online marketplaces in the region, to The Straits Times in February 2012 Committee and Lifelong Learning
with footprints in Malaysia, Vietnam, as its editor. Council. She is a board director at
Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and the National Kidney Foundation
Myanmar. Warren graduated with First Class and Governor at the Singapore
Honours from Oxford University, International Foundation.
where he read Philosophy, Politics and
Economics, and also has a Masters
in Public Administration from Harvard
University’s John F. Kennedy School
of Government. Both degrees were
obtained on Singapore Press Holdings
scholarships.
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She graduated from the National Swee Yeow graduated with a SIM SAY NEE
University of Singapore in 1994 Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Head
with an honours degree in Chinese Manufacturing Engineering from Internal Audit
Studies, and a Masters of Arts degree Oregon State University, USA. He
in Southeast Asian Studies from also holds a Higher National Diploma Say Nee was appointed as the Acting
the School of Oriental and African in Printing and Publishing Production Head of Internal Audit in October
Studies, University of London. She was from London College of Printing, UK. 2014. She subsequently took over as
a visiting scholar at the University of Division Head in April 2015.
California, Berkeley and the John F.
Kennedy School of Government at GAURAV SACHDEVA Say Nee has been with the division
Harvard University. Chief Product Officer for 13 years, having joined in October
2005. Say Nee’s 18 years of
Gaurav joined SPH as Chief Product experience in the profession spanned
GOH SIN TECK Officer in May 2018 heading the across both public and commercial
Editor Digital Media Products Division. sectors.
Lianhe Zaobao & Lianhe Wanbao He also oversees the Information
Resource Centre. She began her career in the Auditor-
Sin Teck joined SPH’s Chinese flagship General’s Office in 2000, where she
paper, Lianhe Zaobao, in 1987 As Chief Product Officer, Gaurav is was involved in the financial audit and
upon graduating from the National driving the vision, strategy, design, system controls review at the Ministry
University of Singapore with a development and monetization of of Manpower and Central Provident
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. SPH’s digital media content and Fund Board, after graduating from
products. Nanyang Technological University
He worked his way up as a crime with a Bachelor of Accountancy
reporter to become the Editor of Prior to joining SPH, Gaurav was the degree.
Lianhe Zaobao and Lianhe Wanbao. Head of Product for Growth team at
Grab. Before that, he was Product She was an Internal Auditor with
Sin Teck presently serves on the Leader at Autodesk & Adobe driving United Engineers Ltd before joining
Nanyang Technological University their respective products portfolios, SPH. She is a member of the Institute
Board of Trustees and is a member of whilst defining the next generation of Singapore Chartered Accountants
the National Translation Council. strategy and steering core thinking for and Institute of Internal Auditors.
these products through business model
transformation. He has 15 years of
LIM SWEE YEOW experience in technology, business
Senior Vice-President strategy and product management.
Production
Gaurav has a MBA from Indian
Swee Yeow has been with SPH for School of Business (India), and a
18 years. He joined Production background in computer science
in January 2000 as Production and engineering from Cambridge
Manager. Throughout his career with University (UK) and Delhi College of
SPH, he helmed various sections in Engineering (India). Outside of work,
operations, engineering, materials he dwells in photography and music,
and newsprint purchases. He and is the lead singer of two Indian
was appointed Division Head in rock bands, which he co-founded.
September 2011.
He was involved in major projects
with the company’s printing presses
and print processes such as the
GOSS Colorliner upgrades (2011),
manroland Uniset (2008) and KBA
Commander (2002). He was also
responsible for building the state-of-
art printing presses and mailroom
systems.
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