Board of Directors

Mr. Tong is an entrepreneur and an analyst.

He has varied business interests in different countries and writes regularly for The Edge Malaysia and The Edge Singapore.

Mr. Tong is on the board of Taiga Building Products Ltd., a subsidiary corporation of the Group listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canada.

Mr. Tong  is a nominee director of Khazanah Nasional Berhad and sits on the Board of M+S Pte Ltd.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and a Master of Arts in Economics and Finance from Simon Fraser University,  Canada. In 2002, he was bestowed his Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) from the same university.

Mr. Tong  is a husband,  a father to 4 children and has 6 grandkids.

Mr. Tong Ian is the Chief Executive Officer of the Group. He joined the Group in 2012 and was appointed Executive Director in 2017 and Chief Executive Officer in 2020. He is also the Chairman of Taiga Building Products Ltd., which became a subsidiary corporation of the Group in 2017, and oversees the Group’s interests in that company.

Mr. Tong Ian is a director of The Edge Media Group Pte Ltd that publishes The Edge Singapore, The Edge Malaysia. He is also a director of The Edge Property Pte Ltd which owns the property portals EdgeProp.sg and EdgeProp.my.

Mr. Tong Ian holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Trinity Western University and a Masters in Management from Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Ms. Lai has over 20 years of corporate and investment banking experience. Formerly Head of corporate banking for CIMB Singapore and Head of international corporate banking for CIMB group. Responsible for business strategy and portfolio development, managed asset portfolio in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and other countries. Served as a member of the Group Credit, Risk and Compliance, Asset and Liability and Business Management committees of the bank.

Prior to CIMB, she joined the international banking of DBS.  She was also partner of a real estate private equity firm.

Ms. Lai presently serves on the board of directors of 3Cnergy Ltd, listed on the Singapore Exchange. She also serves as the Chairman of Audit Committee and is a member of the Remuneration and Nominating committees of the company.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from The University of Western Australia. A Fellow of CPA.

Mr. Moey is the founder and Chief Executive  Officer of GM Capital Management Singapore, an investment management and principal investments firm in Singapore.

Over the last two decades, Mr. Moey has been investing in early-stage growth companies in the Asia-Pacific region (including Japan), advising and growing the businesses, investing through  successful  financing rounds and eventual public and private exits. He has also been active in commercial real estate in the UK and Japan and was previously with Salomon Smith Barney and Goldman Sachs in New York and Singapore before founding GM Capital Management.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Philosophy from the National University of Singapore.

Mr. Lim has held various managerial positions in financial institutions and stockbroking firms in Malaysia and Singapore.

He was Head of Dealing in Phileo Allied Securities Sdn Bhd in the late 1990’s and Head of Equity Capital Markets in Aminvest Bank Berhad in 2003 – 2005.

Mr. Lim served as an independent non-executive director in WCT Holdings Berhad (listed in Bursa Malaysia) from 2013 – 2017. He is currently a private investor.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.

Mr. Kang is an executive director and the CEO of HThree City, a real estate investment management firm in Singapore.

Mr. Kang has over twenty years of experience in private equity, fund management and investment banking.  Prior to establishing HThree City, Mr. Kang was the Deputy CEO of a private equity real estate manager, and before that with ANZ Investment Bank and Ernst & Young.

Mr. Kang holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and an MBA from the Melbourne Business School, Australia.  He is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (Australia).