Mr. Eric Lew serves as the Executive Chairman & Director of Y Ventures Group.
Former Executive Director of Wong Fong Industries Limited (SGX:1A1) with 19 years of diverse experience in corporate strategy & business development and has invaluable experience in transforming a conventional engineering business into a public-listed industry leader.
Mr. Lew led the senior management in the execution of Wong Fong Industries’ overall strategic planning, business development, research and development, as well as human resources department. He has managed to improve synergies with strategic partners, acquisitions and technology development.
Assuming the role of Executive Chairman and Director in Y Ventures, Mr. Eric Lew will provide a strategic review of the Group’s existing business and future prospects, as well as help solidify the vision of the Principal Founders, Mr Adam Low and Mr Alex Low’s, and rendering operational support.
Mr. Low Yik Sen, Adam, is the Co-founder of Y Ventures Group, and serves as the Group’s Managing Director.
Mr. Low is responsible for overseeing the solutions division of the Group, focusing on the provision of ecommerce and training solutions, as well as the logistics division of the Group. He has accumulated decades of experience in the e-commerce market since 2003 when he co-founded the business that became Y Ventures Group.
Prior to founding our Y Ventures Group, Adam Low spent 6 years with the Singapore Armed Forces (“SAF”). His experience during his time with the SAF includes a secondment with the Defence, Science and Technology Agency. Mr. Low graduated with a Diploma in Electronics Engineering from Temasek Polytechnic and is a Spirit of Enterprise Honouree 2017.
Mr. Low graduated with a Diploma in Electronics Engineering from Temasek Polytechnic.
Mr. Low Yik Jin, Alex, is the Co-founder of Y Ventures Group, and serves as the Group’s Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director.
Mr. Low is responsible for the overall day-to-day management of the Group including business strategy, ecommerce operations, data and technology development. He has accumulated decades of experience in the e-commerce market since 2003 when he co-founded the business that became Y Ventures Group.
Mr. Low graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Science majoring in Applied and Computational Mathematics. He further obtained his Master in Business Administration from Peking University.
Mr. Edward Tiong is the Lead Independent Director of Y Ventures Group.
Mr. Tiong joined Allen & Gledhill LLP since 1998 and is currently a partner in its Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice group, where his main areas of practice are corporate restructuring and insolvency, banking litigation, commercial litigation and property disputes.
Mr. Tiong has been lead counsel in several high-profile cross-border restructuring matters and commercial disputes. He also provides legal advice to statutory boards, government-linked companies, major banks, corporate and financial institutions on schemes of arrangements and compromise, judicial management, liquidation, bond defaults and clawbacks. In litigation matters, he has represented major banks, as well as blue chip companies in private banking, construction, property, fraud, commercial disputes and fraud investigations. From 2010 to 2011, Mr. Tiong served as an independent director and a member of the audit committee of Japan Land Limited, which was then listed on the Mainboard of the SGX-ST.
Mr. Tiong graduated from the University of Hull with a Bachelor of Law (Honours) degree in 1996 and was called to the Singapore Bar in 1998. He is also a Fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore Limited (IPAS) since 2008.
Mr. Tan Jia Kien is one of our Independent Directors and the Nominating Committee Chairperson of our Group.
He is currently the Managing Director of The Finlab Pte. Ltd. and has more than 15 years of market entry and business experience. He was the Business Development Director of Wong Fong Research and Innovation Centre in 2015. From 2011 to 2015, he served Evolusia LLP as Senior Consultant responsible to help its stakeholder to identify and map out holistic strategies to achieve goals.
Prior to that, he was active in Performance Leadership Pte. Ltd. and NTU Ventures Private Limited (now known as Nanyang Technological University – Ntuitive Pte. Ltd.) as Associate Director and Mentor, respectively, to entrepreneurs and aspiring in process and business management. From 2007 to 2009, he was the Vice President (Deposits) and Head of finatiQ.com at Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (“OCBC”), responsible for strategic and business planning. Before his stint at OCBC, he was one of the founders of SilkRoute Ventures Pte Ltd, one of the pioneering internet companies during the initial dot-com boom where Pacific Century Cyberworks Limited took a 25% stake at a US$100 million valuation in 1999.
He graduated from Kent State University, Ohio (USA) in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science).
Mr. Goh Cher Shua is one of our Independent Directors and the Audit Committee Chairperson of our Group.
He has over 30 years of work experience in accounting and finance functions. He was the Chief Financial Officer at Hong Leong Asia Ltd and was responsible for all financial matters which includes financial reporting, strategic financial planning, treasury and internal controls.
Prior to joining Hong Leong Asia Ltd., he held the position of Financial Controller of UTAC Dongguan Ltd. in January 2011. Prior to that, he held various senior management positions in companies listed on Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited. He started his career with the subsidiaries of multinational corporations such as General Electric and Matsushita Electric (now known as Panasonic Corporation) in Singapore.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Accountancy from National University of Singapore in 1979 and Master of Business Administration (MBA) from University of Wales, Bangor (United Kingdom) in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.
Mr. Ng Tiong Gee is an Independent Director and Chairperson of the Nomination Committee of Y Ventures Group.
Mr. Ng is currently serving as a lead independent director of Pacific Radiance Ltd. since 2013 and as an independent director and chairperson of the remuneration committee of Global Yellow Pages Limited since 2007. Both Pacific Radiance Ltd. and Global Yellow Pages Limited are listed on the SGX-ST.
From 2013 to 2016, Ng Tiong Gee served as Senior Vice-President of Resorts World at Sentosa Pte. Ltd., where he was overseeing and managing the Information Technology, Engineering and Estate Management departments. Between 2008 and 2013, he was the Chief Information Officer and Chief Human Resource Officer of United Test and Assembly Center Ltd. From 2001 to 2008, he was with STATS ChipPac Pte. Ltd. where he left as the Senior Vice-President of the Human Resources and Information Technology departments. He also currently serves as a member of the Electronics & Info-Tech Academic Advisory Committee of the Institute of Technical Education.
Mr. Ng obtained a Masters in Business Administration (Accountancy) from Nanyang Technological University in 1999 and went on to complete the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2003.
