Mr. Low Yik Sen, Adam, is the Co-founder of Y Ventures Group, and serves as Executive Chairman and Director of the Company.
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, he 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 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 Yung Suh is the Lead Independent Director and the Remuneration Committee Chairperson of Y Ventures Group.
Mr. Tiong joined Allen & Gledhill LLP since 1998 and is currently the Deputy Head of the Restructuring & Insolvency Practice, where his main areas of practice are corporate restructuring and insolvency, commercial and banking litigation and property disputes.
Mr. Tiong has been lead counsel in several high-profile cases, in particular, restructuring matters (both cross border and domestic), 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 Main Board 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 Chade Phang, Roger, is one of our Independent Directors and the Audit Committee Chairperson of Y Ventures Group.
Mr. Tan is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Voyage Research since 2009 till present. Prior to setting up Voyage Research, Mr. Tan was an Investment Analyst with Standard Chartered Bank Singapore from 2007 to 2008, and was also the lead Investment Analyst in SIAS Research from 2005 to 2006.
Currently, Mr. Tan is the President of the Small and Middle Capitalisation Association (SMCCA), where he actively gathers small and middle capitalisation companies within a single entity to work closely with the authorities and professionals to improve the visibility and governance standards of its members. Mr. Tan also sits on the Board of TIH Limited and Luminor Financial Holdings Ltd as an Independent Director.
Mr. Tan sat on the Board of TBK & Sons Holdings Limited as an Independent Director from September 2019 to October 2020.
Mr. Tan graduated with a Bachelor of Business in Accountancy degree from RMIT University and obtained a Master of Finance degree from the same university.
Mr. Tan Jia Kien, Felix, is one of our Independent Directors and the Nominating Committee Chairperson of our Group.
Mr. Tan is currently the Mentor-in-Residence and former 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.
Prior to that, he was active in Performance Leadership Pte. Ltd. as an Associate Director conducting management training for local SMEs, and as a mentor at NTU Ventures Private Limited (now known as NTUitive) to undergraduate students aspiring to be entrepreneurs. From 2007 to 2010, he was the Vice President (Deposits) and Head of finatiQ.com at Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (“OCBC”), responsible for strategic and business planning to grow both AUM (Assets Under Management) and earned fees. 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 (Applied Mathematics and Computer Science).
Mr. Ng Tiong Gee is an Independent Director of Y Ventures Group.
Mr. Ng is currently serving as an independent director of 8VI Holdings Limited since 2021, as a lead independent director of Pacific Radiance Ltd. since 2013 and as an independent director and chairperson of the remuneration committee of GYP Properties Limited (previously known as Global Yellow Pages Limited) since 2007. Both Pacific Radiance Ltd. and GYP Properties Limited are listed on the SGX-ST.
From 2013 to 2016, Mr. Ng 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 Master in Business Administration (Accountancy) from Nanyang Technological University in 1999 and went on to complete the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School in 2003.
