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Who's Who on the
ACS OBA Management Committee 2012

Cheo Chai Hong, President

Cheo Chai Hong (President)

Chai Hong (ACS Class of 1968) is Managing Director, Head Corporate Planning and International Strategy. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) from the University of Singapore and has more than 30 years of experience in corporate banking, relationship management and credit approval. He is currently an OBA representative on the  ACS BOG and chairs the Sports Sub-Committee of the ACS OBA Management Committee; he is also the current Honorary Secretary of the Singapore Rugby Union. Chai Hong is married to Elaine, an old girl from MGS.
Joy-Marie Toh - 2nd Vice President

Joy-marie Toh (2nd Vice President)

Joy-marie, ACJC Class of ’91, is the General Manager of the Anglo-Chinese Schools Foundation. She is the Second Vice President of the ACS OBA Management Committee and a member of the Methodist Girls’ School (MGS) Alumnae Association Committee. A fifth generation ACSian, Joy-marie was on the Executive Committee of the 15th Students’ Council in ACJC and active in the ACJC Drama Club. Joy-marie was previously an Executive Director at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in Hong Kong where she was responsible for Marketing Communications for the Goldman Sachs Investment Management Division in Asia ex-Japan (AEJ).
Chandra Mohan

Chandra Mohan Rethnam (PBM) (Honorary Secretary)

Chandra is a partner in the law firm, Rajah & Tann LLP. A true blue ACSian - ACPS (1974), ACS (1978) and ACJC (1980), he has served the ACS OBA since 1991, holding the position of Honorary Secretary from 1995 to 2005 and from 2007 to date. Chandra did his first law degree in NUS and subsequently his LLM in the University of Cambridge. He also serves on the ACS Board of Governors and the Board of ACS (International).
Rayson Seow 

Rayson Seow (Assistant Honorary Secretary)

Rayson (ACS Class of 75) is a Financial Services Manager with Prudential where he leads a team of financial consultants. A devout Christian and avid footballer, he organises outreach events through football for the Sports Coalition Singapore, Christian Sports Club, the Bible Society and the Methodist Welfare Services. Rayson is married with a daughter aged 23 and a son aged 17. His son is studying in ACJC
Mervyn Lim 

Mervyn Lim (Honorary Treasurer)

Mervyn (Pre-U Class of 76), the CFO and Executive Director of Solar Silicon Resources Group, is no newcomer to the ACS OBA as he has served on the committee before. An ACS thoroughbred, he enjoyed the final years of pre-university education in ACS Barker Road before this was replaced by ACJC. Mervyn is married to Serena, an old girl from MGS; they have three boys - Shaun (13) the youngest is studying in ACS (Barker) while his brothers Mark (18) and Nicholas (16) are in the Singapore American School.
Lin Tat 

Lim Tat (Assistant Honorary Treasurer)

 

Tat (ACS Class of ’79 & ACJC Class of ‘81) is the managing partner of a law firm.  He holds an MBA/LLM and MSc (Construction Law and Arbitration) from NUS and King’s College London.  He currently serves on the Board of Management of ACS (Independent).  Tat is married to Angeline.  They have 2 boys (ACS (Independent) and ACS (Primary)) and a girl (MGS).
Lim Jen Howe 

Lim Jen Howe (Committee Member)

Jen Howe is a partner of Thong & Lim, a local accounting and auditing company. He schooled in ACS, from ACPS right through to ACSS (‘O’ Level Class of 69 and ‘A’ Level Class of 71), and has been actively involved in the ACS OBA since the early 1990s. Jen Howe is an ACS OBA representative on the ACS Board of Governors. He also served on the ACS (Independent) Board of Management from 1993 to 2009.
Oon Jin Gee 

Oon Jin Gee (Committee Member)

A two-time Olympian, Jin Gee is a grateful beneficiary of an ACS education (ACPS, ACSS & ACJC).  He is a strategic vendor manager with a multinational infocomm organisation and also volunteers with the Singapore National Olympic Council, Singapore Swimming Association and National Anti-Doping Advisory Board Singapore.  He and his wife, Li-Min (an MGS alumnus), have two sons, Darren and Colin, who are presently in ACS.  Jin Gee firmly believes in the ACS brand of a holistic education and hopes to further the OneACS cause through service.
Phang Kien Yip 

Phang Kien Yip (Committee Member)

Kien Yip is the founder of Bronco Media House, a TV and film production company in Singapore. Prior to this, he was with a multi-national company as a research engineer before he ventured out to pursue his passion for film making 12 years ago. He schooled in ACPS, ACSS and ACJC (Class of 1985) before furthering his studies at Nanyang Technological University; he also obtained his Masters from the National University of Singapore. Kien Yip is married to Geraldine.
David Tan 

David Tan Hsien Yung (Committee Member)

David (ACJS Class of 1990, ACS Class of 1994 and ACJC Class of 1996) is a Family Physician in a government polyclinic. A graduate from medical school in NUS, he is also involved in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. David hopes to contribute to the ACS OBA Management Committee and he hopes to see more of the younger ACSians connected through the various portals. He is married to his secondary school sweetheart and they have two daughters.

Lee Su En 

En Lee (Committee Member)

 

En (ACS Class of 1990 and ACJC Class of 1992) is a Director at Impact Investment Exchange Asia. Previously, En was an Executive Director of Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong and a Corporate Associate with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London.  In school, he actively served as a prefect, student counsellor, scout and in athletics. Having returned to Singapore from over two decades overseas, En is honoured to serve the ACS family once again. En holds a Bachelor of Laws degree (First Class Honours) from the University of Leicester, UK. 
Timothy Chew 

Timothy Chew (Co-opted Member)

 

Timothy (ACS Pre-U Class of 62) is ACS through and through, from Primary and Secondary schools to Pre-University, and continuing to be of service to the Alma Mater. He has sat on various ACS boards, including the ACS Board of Governors, and is probably the ACS OBA Committee’s longest serving member. An Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, he owns an insurance agency. Timothy is married to Pauline and they have two grown up children.
Ong Tek Khoan 

Ong Tek Khoan (Co-opted Member)

 

As Managing Director of Templeton Asset Management, Tek Khoan helps to oversee the management of assets invested across emerging markets. An ACSian – ACPS, ACSS and ACJC (Class of 79) - he went on to Imperial College, London where he graduated with BSC (Eng) Honours and MSc degrees in 1984 and 1985 respectively. In 1993, he also earned a MBA with Distinction degree from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Tek Khoan is married to Yew Khuan and his two sons are studying in ACS (Independent) and ACS (Primary).
 
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