Lucas Chow

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Lucas Chow Wing Keung
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Lucas Chow speaking at the movie premiere of It's a Great, Great World
Born1953/1954(age 68–69) [1]
Hong Kong
NationalitySingaporean [2]
Alma mater University of Aston
Occupation(s) Chairman, Health Promotion Board

Lucas Chow Wing Keung is the former chief executive officer of MediaCorp, SingTel Mobile. [3] and group chief executive officer and managing director of Far East Orchard.

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He is currently the chairman of Health Promotion Board [4] and a member of the board of trustees of National University of Singapore [5]

Early life

Chow was born in Hong Kong and subsequently granted Singapore citizenship. [2] He graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree from the University of Aston, United Kingdom. [5]

Career

Chow started his career at Hewlett-Packard, where he worked for over 20 years and eventually became the company's head in Singapore. [2] [6]

He joined SingTel in May 1998 and was subsequently appointed chief executive officer of SingTel Mobile. In July 2000, he was appointed executive vice-president of consumer business and responsible for the fixed-line, multimedia and mobile communications services. He assumed the position of executive vice-president of corporate business in April 2004, looking after the telecommunications needs of corporate customers. [3]

He joined MediaCorp in 2005. During his tenure at Mediacorp, he served as the chairman of Smart Alliance, a regional broadcasters’ association, to cooperate along three areas — content, sales and marketing, and technology — and capitalise on the economies of scale and combined market that the region can offer. [7]

He relinquished his position as CEO of MediaCorp in July 2011. [7] and assuming the post of executive director at Far East Organization (FEO). [8]

In March 2012, Chow was appointed the CEO of Far East Orchard (previously known as Orchard Parade Holdings), a subsidiary of FEO. [1] [9] He was re-designated as group chief executive officer and managing director on July 12, 2012.

In June 2014, FEO announced that Chow will retire on September 1, 2014. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Lucas Chow appointed CEO of Orchard Parade Holdings". Singapore Business Review. Retrieved 2012-07-20.
  2. 1 2 3 Ho, Frankie (20 June 2012). "The Far East Re-organization". The Edge Singapore. pp. 18–20.
  3. 1 2 "Lucas Chow leaves SingTel". telecompaper.com. Retrieved 2012-07-20.
  4. ↑ "Health Promotion Board". Health Promotion Board. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
  5. 1 2 "NUS Board of Trustees". National University Singapore. Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
  6. ↑ "Far East Orchard Group CEO Lucas Chow to retire". Channel NewsAsia. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  7. 1 2 "CEO Lucas Chow resigns from MediaCorp". Channel NewsAsia . Retrieved 2012-07-20.
  8. ↑ "Far East Organization appoints Mr Lucas Chow as Executive Director". Channel NewsAsia . Retrieved 2012-07-20.
  9. ↑ "Lucas Chow appointed CEO of Orchard Parade Holdings". Channel NewsAsia . Retrieved 2012-07-20.
  10. ↑ "Press Release" (PDF). Far East Orchard. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
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