Board of Directors

CHAIRMAN

Mr Ng Chee Yuen

Mr Ng Chee Yuen joined the Board in 2011. Mr Ng is the founder of Shenning Investments Private Limited, and was Chairman of Capella Hotel Group Private Limited for 9 years.

Before being a serial entrepreneur, Mr Ng has worked in international strategy consulting, private equity and in the Singapore government service. He spent 17 years in the United States, Europe, China and the Middle East where he learnt to conduct businesses in different cultures and across business structures ranging from start-ups and partnerships, to family offices, MNCs and government. He is active in cross-border business tie-ups between the Middle East and Asia, and he had been actively involved in the Technology / Telecom / E-commerce, Real Estate, Natural Resources and Hospitality sectors.

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN

Ms Adeline Sum

Ms Adeline Sum is the CEO of Singapore Labour Foundation and Deputy CEO, Strategic Alignment of NTUC Enterprise Co-operative Limited. She also holds directorships in several NTUC social enterprises and ComfortDelgro Corporation Limited.

She joined the NTUC First Campus Board in August 2019.

Ms Adeline Sum

Associate Professor Mary Daniel

Associate Professor Lourdes Mary Daniel is a Senior Consultant and the Head of the Department of Child Development, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Her sub-specialty interests include learning problems in children, especially those with chronic medical problems and hearing impairments, developmental support of children from vulnerable families, long term developmental outcome of premature infants, mental health in preschool children and the continued support of high-risk children in mainstream preschools and primary schools.

She was a Neonatologist for more than 20 years. She was the Head of the Neonatal Ambulatory Services till 2012 and the Director of the Universal Newborn Hearing Programme till 2014. She is involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. She serves on several committees for parenting, inclusive and developmental screening.

Mr Andy Lim

Mr Andy Lim is the Deputy Secretary-General of the Singapore Manual & Mercantile Workers’ Union (SMMWU), one of the largest unions affiliated with NTUC, representing mainly commerce and service workers in the private sector. He has held this position since 2014. He first joined the union in 2000 and has been serving in it for two decades.

Mr Lim was elected to the NTUC Central Committee (CC) in Dec 2011. He is now serving his third term in the CC.

Mr Lim currently chairs the NTUC Hospitality & Consumer Business Cluster and co-chairs the NTUC International Relations Committee. He is a member of the NTUC Industrial Relations Council, NTUC Membership Council, NTUC Training Council and NTUC Audit, Risk and Governance Committee. He has also been the Tripartite Mediation Advisor since 2019. He sat on NTUC LearningHub’s Board of Directors from 2016 to 2019.

Ms Ng Lai Leng

Ms Ng Lai Leng joined the Board in 2018. Ms Ng is the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Changi Airport Group (CAG), overseeing CAG’s Finance, Strategy, Business Development, Legal & Compliance, Communications & Marketing and Enterprise Risk Management functions.

Prior to joining CAG, Ms Ng held senior positions in various subsidiaries of CapitaLand Ltd. She was the Chief Financial Officer of Raffles Holdings Limited, Chief Corporate Officer at the Ascott Limited, as well as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Ascott Residence Trust Management Limited.

Ms Ng is a Fellow Chartered Accountant of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants as well as a Fellow of CPA Australia.

Ms Wong Su-Yen

Ms Wong Su-Yen joined the Board in 2014. Ms Wong is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bronze Phoenix, a company focused on helping organisations and leaders reinvent themselves. She is concurrently Chairman of Nera Telecommunications, Chairman of the Singapore Institute of Directors, and Independent Director at Yoma Strategic Holdings, CSE Global, First Resources, and NTUC First Campus. Previously, she was the Chief Executive Officer of the Human Capital Leadership Institute; Chairman of Marsh and McLennan Companies (Singapore); Southeast Asia Managing Director of Mercer; Asia Managing Partner for the Communications, Information, and Entertainment Practice at Oliver Wyman.

She is a Board and C-Suite advisor on strategy, human capital, leadership development, and the future of work. She has advised and worked with organisations including Citibank, China Mobile, Hewlett-Packard, ExxonMobil, Microsoft, SK Telecom, and the Government of Singapore. She is an accomplished keynote speaker and facilitator, and adjunct professor of global leadership at the National University of Singapore.

Mr Wong Toon King

Mr Wong Toon King joined the Board in 2018. Mr Wong is the Managing Partner of FarSight Capital, an early stage internet VC. He is a pioneer of the internet start-up scene in Singapore in 1994 through his involvement in SilkRoute Ventures, ECnet and Sembawang Ventures (Pacific Internet). He also brought the well-loved US Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream brand to Singapore and won the Best International Operator Award two years in a row in 2006 & 2007.

Since 2001, Mr Wong has served on a number of private and government boards in Singapore and India spanning across diverse industries. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and is the winner of the Best Thesis prize in Computer Science for 1989. In 2001, he was given the National Youth Award for Entrepreneurship and the World Economic Forum’s Global Leaders for Tomorrow Award.

An avid fencer and national sportsman, Mr Wong and several national fencers founded Z Fencing in 1993, Singapore’s most well-known and largest fencing academy.