The SMU Alumni Mentors

SMU Alumni Mentors Profiles

SMU Students
Thank you for your interest in participating in the SMU Alumni Mentorship Program.

Below are 25 alumni mentors from a range of industries you can select from.
Please view their profiles carefully, and enter your 1st, 2nd and 3rd choices in the online application form from where you came. It is important to note that you may not get your selected alumni mentor, or be selected for this programme.

Nonetheless, we hope that one of them will be the perfect mentor for you to speak with and help you find the career that’s right for you.

SMU Alumni
If you are a SMU alumnus, there is no better opportunity now to give back to the university. This is a chance for you to share your knowledge with current students and help them make the transition from university to work. While the pilot run is now closed, we are always looking out for committed alumni to become mentors. Please click here to start the process.

Name Dominic Ng

Degree BBM

Year Graduated 2004

Company Cisco Systems

Industry Marketing / Sales

Dominic joined the Interactive marketing arena as a humble free-lance flash designer. Since then, he has been rummaging through the “software” and “hardware” of digital marketing with euphoric motivation. Inspired to be a Technology Evangelist, Dominic strives to "unlearn and relearn" as much as he can within this continuum of Digital Communications and Marketing.
Dominic Ng’s specialties are:
- Data/Web Analytics
- CRM Strategy Conceptualization & Planning
- Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Digital Media Partnership, Sponsorship & Contract Negotiation
- End-to-end Digital Campaign Planning & Project Management
- Regional Account Planning & Coordination
- Digital Training & Process Implementation
- Communication Planning & Insights
- Sales and Marketing Process/Measurement Integration
- Virtual Event Management (WebEx)

Name Gerald Goh Tuo-Yang

Degree BBM

Year Graduated 2004

Company Cambridge Associates

Industry Consulting

Gerald Goh is a Specialist Consultant in the Singapore office of Cambridge Associates. He works with a variety of clients in the U.S., Europe and Asia and is responsible for helping to build and oversee their dedicated global private equity and venture capital portfolios. Gerald also supports the private equity research team in providing primary investment research on Asian managers, and has led and participated in over a dozen due diligence projects in that area.

Before joining Cambridge Associates in 2005, Gerald was an Analyst with the Financial Services consulting division of Accenture, where he led and participated in several business process re-engineering projects with a number of large Asian financial institutions.
Gerald holds an undergraduate degree in Business Management with First Class Honors from the Singapore Management University.

Name Projjal Ghatak

Degree BSc (ISM)

Year Graduated 2008

Company Accenture

Industry Consulting

Projjal Ghatak graduated from SMU in 2008 with a Summa Cum Laude in BSc (Information Systems Management) and BBM (Marketing). He graduated with a perfect GPA, and was awarded the Singapore Computer Society Best Final Year IS Student award. Projjal was the founding president of the SMU International Ambassadors program run by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, to send the best international students back to leading schools in their home country to educate high school students on the attractiveness of SMU and Singapore as a undergraduate education destination. Projjal also spent some time in the SMU Debating Society representing the university in several Singapore inter-university debating competitions.

Projjal spent the bulk of his childhood in Kolkata, India and finished his high school education from St. James' School, Kolkata where he was a school prefect in his senior year, responsible for organizing school activities and being a member of the student management body of the school.

Currently, Projjal is a Business Analyst in Accenture's Strategy practice. His experience is currently in Growth Strategy, Distribution Strategy, Telecommunications and Retail. He has worked across Singapore, India and Malaysia over the last year with a global renewable energy firm, global consumer electronics giant and leading telecommunications players.

Name Chan Jing Tsyr, Jenny

Degree BBM

Year Graduated 2008

Company iris Singapore

Industry Advertising

Jenny Chan is a business management graduate (double major in marketing and corporate communications).

In her current job at iris Singapore, she works on the Sony Ericsson account. Her experience ranges from organizing events on the local account to managing retail activation projects on the regional account. Being the first junior level account servicing person in Asia to be sent on a secondment to help start up iris's Beijing office, Jenny works with the retail marketing team on several projects. These projects span from the initial stages of research, through ideation and strategic formulation to finally conceptualisation and materialisation.
Her other work experiences include a corporate affairs internship at Temasek Holdings, an internship and freelance experience at Ogilvy & Mather; working on accounts like DHL, Motorola, Nike and Rabobank, as well as assisting the Ogilvy & Mather APAC co-chairman with local, regional and international awards shows.

Name Chai Kok Hong , Clarence

Degree BAcc

Year Graduated 2004

Company Citibank NA

Industry Banking

Clarence was one of the pioneer students who joined SMU in its inaugural intake in 2000 and graduated with a summa cum laude in Accountancy and Business Management (Finance/Marketing) in 2004. He was a founding member and Vice President of the SMU Alumni Association between 2004 and 2007. He has been a member of ICPAS since 2007 and has gone on to attain his full CPA Singapore membership at the beginning of 2008.
Clarence began his career with United Overseas Bank in its Commercial Banking Sector as a Management Associate in 2004 and went on to take on the role of a Relationship Manager responsible for the execution of growth and retention strategies for a portfolio of corporate/SME clients in industries including manufacturing, oil & gas, logistics, construction/engineering, F&B, electronics and retail. His responsibilities entail credit analysis of new prospects with evaluation of financial data and business trends, credit supervision and monitoring for credit delinquencies and deterioration of existing clients, apart from identifying business opportunities and marketing of bank products to exceed targets and ensure quality service delivery.

Subsequently, he joined Citibank NA as a Relationship Manager for a portfolio of MNC clients in pharmaceutical, logistics, technology and consumer retail sectors.

Name Eric Chua

Degree BBM

Year Graduated 2004

Company APL Logistics

Industry Banking and Finance

Eric belongs to SMU’s pioneer batch of students and graduated magna cum laude in 2004 with a double degree in Business Management (Finance) and Accountancy. He was a founding member of Cognitare: The SMU Business Case Club and was actively involved in case training even after graduation.

He joined the Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) Group in 2005 as an analyst in its Business Solutions unit. He then progressed to a regional role for the Group’s business in the Asia/Middle East (and later, South Asia) region. He is currently a business planning and strategy manager in APL Logistics, the Group’s logistics business unit. His line-of-work includes long-term planning, strategy formulation and implementation, performance measurement, management reporting, as well as project planning and management.

Name Nicholas Gerald Chia

Degree BSc (Econs) cum laude

Year Graduated 2008

Company Ministry of Education

Industry Teaching

I believe that interacting with people and being in a position to guide and form them is a talent that I possess. It is with this intent that I have chosen to become a school teacher trained to teach Economics at Junior College. I graduated from SMU in 2008 with a BSc(Econs) cum laude and is the only SMU graduate that is in the current cohort of Economics teachers in the National Institute of Education(NIE). I have chosen such a route because this is something that I enjoy doing.

Being a mentor to the current juniors in SMU is a privilege as it enables me to share with them my life experience and allow them to use me as a sounding board to clarify issues such as the choice of a job and the different aspects of their life in SMU that they may need help in.

Name Wong Hur Ming

Degree BBM

Year Graduated 2005

Company Deutsche Bank

Industry Banking

Ming, as he is more affectionately known, is President of the SMU Alumni Association. He is responsible for leading the Alumni Association's Executive Committee, and coordinating its efforts in the interests of the SMU community at large. Upon graduation from the School of Business in 2005, Ming started his career at Deutsche Bank. He does business development and strategy planning for the Asset Management division, covering both Asia Pacific & Middle East markets.

Name Jeremy Nguee

Degree BAcc

Year Graduated 2006

Industry Accounting

Chef, soldier, photographer, consultant. Student, entrepreneur, employee. Been there, done that and not quite yet. On hindsight, there were a few things that I would have done differently, and there were a few things that I would not have stressed myself so much about. But that's Life. Thank God I'm now working with one of the best teams in one of the biggest consulting firms in the business. It's been a rough and hard 3 year journey getting here and I would like to share with my mentee how to avoid )and spot) the glass shards along the way. But my greatest offering to my mentee is learning how to stop (and spot) the roses along the way. Only people with a Passion for Life need apply. Nerds who want their A+ and that big nerdy banking job need not.

Name Dominic Wee

Degree BBM

Year Graduated 2004

Company Symantec

Industry Information Systems

My name is Dominic Wee and I graduated from SMU in 2004. Besides studying and working on projects in SMU, I was also part of SMUSA, SMUX, Links+ and Aikido. We also started a web marketing business with SMUâ€™s CIT support.

After graduation, I started in sales at IBM where I managed the global business accounts. While at IBM, I was president of the recreational club and organized IBM day for 2,500 staff and family. I also won an ASEAN Leadership Award in 2005 for the first Contact Center project in SEA.

In 2006, I joined HP as their youngest Enterprise Account Manager in HP Singapore history and won a HP Aspire Star Award that year. In Oct this year, I turned down Google and joined Symantec as a regional Business Development Manager to grow the SAAS business in Asia.

In my leisure, I love watching foreign films and listening to music they donâ€™t play on the local radio.

Name Lester Lim

Degree MSc (Finance)

Year Graduated 2005

Industry Information Systems

I am an outgoing person that strive on managing changes and likes facing up new challenges. This is why I like I.T. in the investment banking industry. Everything moves very quickly and I always have to reinvent myself to adapt to the demands of my job. Managing a Team increases the difficulty exponentially as you have to consider the strength and weaknesses of your team and urge them to achieve the goals of your organisation.

Having been in a government agency and 2 global investment banks; one in operations and the other in IT. I believe I will be on hand to provide a good coverage on the prospective career paths avail to someone who like to consider the pros and cons of working for the government or a stint in the financial industry in operations or IT.

Name Alvina Teh

Degree BBM (Summa cum laude)

Year Graduated 2008

Company Multinine Company Ltd

Industry Media

Alvina is an entrepreneur in the media industry. While at SMU, she was awarded the Standard Chartered Best First Year Business Student Award (2004), the OCBC Outstanding Student Award (2005), the SICC International Exchange Scholarship (2006) for a semester of study at University of Pennsylvania (The Wharton School), and the ABS Outstanding Graduating Business Student Award (2007).

Alvina served as President of the SMU Broadcast & Entertainment Club, Founding Member of the SMU Campus Radio station, Founding Chairperson of the ReadSMU Campaign, and Public Relations Manager for SMU Convocation 2005. Alvina also served as an emcee for various university events such as SMU Official Opening, SMU Convocation Ceremony, and SMU Open House. For her contributions to the university, Alvina was awarded the Tan Tee Chee & Tsan Kah Ngooh Award.

Alvina graduated as Valedictorian of SMU Class of 2007.

Name Tee Yock Siong

Degree BBM / BSc (Econs) (Summa cum laude)

Year Graduated 2007

Company Temasek Holdings

Industry Investment

Siong is a senior associate in the Investments Group in Temasek Holdings. Prior to joining Temasek, he was with McKinsey and Company in Singapore as a business analyst, where he was involved in several private equity projects and provided M&A advice to large multinational corporations. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from SMU with a B.B.M. in Finance and a B.Sc. in Economics. At SMU, he was heavily involved in the Debate Society (where he was President) and also as a member of Cognitare, where he was part of the team that won the Danone-TRUST Competition globally in Paris. Outside of work, he devotes his energies to electronic dance music and battling the proverbial bulge, a sad battle to which he is slowly but surely losing the fight.

Name Victor Ng Teck Wei

Degree BSc (Econs)

Year Graduated 2007

Company

Industry Finance

Victor graduated from SMU's pioneer class of Economics students with the determination not to go into the finance industry. A twist of fate later, Victor now works in a boutique M&A advisory and consulting firm specialising in the logistics sector. Prior to this experience, Victor was involved briefly in a finance industry start-up, and was consultant in a regional investor relations firm working closely with the senior management of S-Chip companies.

A former President of the Students’ Association, Victor continues to actively contribute his free time to community work through various channels. In particular, Victor is passionate about the mentoring of young leaders in the areas of leadership and better approaches to serving the community. Through the SMU Alumni Mentorship Program, Victor hopes to help current student leaders develop in various aspects of their lives, and hopefully escape the unimaginative (but enjoyable) end that has befallen himself.

Name Ahmad Firdaus Daud

Degree BSc (ISM)

Year Graduated 2008

Company Ministry of Community, Youth and Sports (MCYS)

Industry Government / Non-profit

Ahmad Firdaus Daud works in the Community Relations department of the Ministry of Community, Youth and Sports (MCYS), specializing in Malay-Muslim affairs. He was previously involved in ASEAN Free Trade Agreements (FTA) in the Trade division of the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI).

Firdaus graduated Magna Cum Laude from Singapore Management University with a BSc (Informations Systems Management) with a second major in Law. During his time in SMU, he was awarded the Goh Foundation Scholarship and was also President of the Students' Association.

Besides being a regular fixture at Arab Street, Firdaus also works on a social enterprise web application with some friends and plays the drum for a post-rock band.

Name Sarah Seow

Degree BAcc (summa cum laude)

Year Graduated 2005

Company Pursuing Masters degree at Lund University

Industry Management

I was among the first batch of students in the School of Accountancy from 2001 to 2005, and graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Accountancy (2nd major in Law) in July 2005 as the Valedictorian of SoA for that year. During my time with SMU, I travelled overseas through summer courses (UBC in Vancouver, Canada in 2002), student exchange (Lund University in autumn of 2004) and special competitions (visited Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, USA as reward for winning the Microsoft-SMU Business Competition). Upon graduating, I entered General Electric's 2-year financial management program which further extended my international exposure, this time in the context of the real working world, through various roles in Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, and USA. I subsequently joined Deloitte & Touche Singapore as a tax senior for 1.5 years, before relocating to Lund, Sweden in April 2009 after my marriage to my Swedish husband. I am currently doing a 1-year Masters course in Corporate and Financial Management at the School of Economics and Management in Lund University.

I would like to mentor SMU students who come to Lund University on exhange, particularly in the area of career and academic related advice.

Name Elfarina Zaid

Degree BBM

Year Graduated 2004

Company ProGolf International

Industry Marketing / Sales

- Co-Active Coach
- Brand Manager - Progolf International LLC
- Parent
Whether you want to enrich your professional career or attain a fufilling personal life, I am here to help you be creative with your inner resources to achieve the changes and the outcomes you truly want.

As a Co-Active Coach, I have successfully completed Co-Active Coaching Course which is an ICF (International Coach Federation) Accredited Coach Training Program.I am also a professional Co-Active Coach. A pioneer SMU alumnus, I have also been working and living in Dubai for 5 years, and am currently based there.

My professional experience as Cabin Crew and currently as Brand Manager of Progolf International has allowed me to interact with multi-nationalities and practice multi-dimensional marketing in retail & golf industry.

I also wear a different hat as a new parent to a baby girl.

Name Jessene Lim

Degree BBM (cum laude)

Year Graduated 2005

Company Citadel Consulting

Industry Human Resources

Jessene Lim is a consultant under the Citadel Consulting arm, customising programs like training, coaching, teambuilding, assessments, profiling tools and 360 feedback surveys to produce desired performance outcomes for clients. She was also involved in the start-up phase of the headhunting arm of Citadel Search and also handles all the marketing aspects of the group from managing events to advertising. In 2008, Jessene was also engaged in a 1 year full-time volunteer program. She has spent time in Laos, Indonesia and Timor Leste undertaking developmental work to teach English, computer skills and running health and water projects. Jessene graduated from the Singapore Management University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Business Management (cum laude) with a major in marketing.

Name Audrey Ung

Degree BBM (magna cum laude)

Year Graduated 2005

Company VMware

Industry Information Systems

Audrey is currently assisting Senior Director for VMware Partner Organization for Asia Pacific and Japan. At VMware she is responsible for assisting Senior Director for the OEM, Distribution, resellers, system integration partners and relationships. Audrey set up workshops to train partner managers and partners in the ecosystem to better equip them to sell VMware. She utilizes business planning tools to assist in supporting operations and provide reports to assess business effectiveness.
Prior to joining VMware, Audrey has worked for Microsoft, Dimerco Express and most recently with Servcorp where she was Virtual Office Manager. Audrey is an SMU alumnus from the School of Business class of 2001 – she graduated in 2005 magna cum laude with double majors in Finance and Marketing after attending an exchange program with the University of British Columbia in summer 2005.

Name Ben Toh Zhi Sian

Degree BAcc

Year Graduated 2009

Company NTUC Income

Industry Insurance

-Presently a management trainee at a financial institution.

-Experienced professional in delivering creative sales presentations, preparing written proposals and client handling.

-Prior working experience in banking, private equity and insurance.

-Background in business administration, financial accounting and corporate communications.

- Active student leader in events and project management previously, chairing numerous committees and initiatives.

Name Yeo Keng Hong , Chris

Degree BSc (ISM)

Year Graduated 2008

Company Lucas Film

Industry Information Systems

I have a bachelor degree in Information System Management and a second major in Finance. During my course of study and after I graduate, I have been into quite a few different industry before finding out what I really want for in my career. I believe with my personal experience and the wide range of job experience and the various type of interview I been through, I would be able to provide some assistance to the students. With that, I also had a chance to lived in Korea for my exchange program and in US for my work. This valuable experience had made me a more independent person, able to adapt to different environment and communicate well with people from all over the world. With Singapore having more expats coming, it's important to know how to work with them.

Name Serene Lim

Degree BSc (Econs)

Year Graduated 2007

Company MF Global

Industry Finance

Currently sales trading with one of the largest international futures brokerage, MF Global. 2 years with Morgan Stanley’s Equity Sales and Trading team and internships with leading institutions in the consulting and banking industries. A fast learner, mature and confident. A committed and consistent member of the Singapore National Netball squad since 2003. Economics and Finance graduate from Singapore Management University.

Name Goh Di Kun

Degree BSc (Econs)

Year Graduated 2008

Company Macquarie Capital

Industry Banking

Graduated from School of Economics, majoring in Econs and Finance. While in SMU, I was involved in Obligato (String Ensemble) and the United Nations' Student Association (UNSA). - Initiated and embarked on a "gap year" project in April 2006. Beginning with an internship in a consultancy in Shanghai, I then went on an exchange programme at the European Business School in Germany. In early 2007, I landed an internship with ABN AMRO's M&A team in Frankfurt, where I had my first taste of corporate finance advisory. In summer 2007, I participated in the Tata International Internship Programme, during which I interned with Tata Consultancy Services in India. Subsequent to which, I initiated an independent research project on automotive strategic alliances in China.- Since Jan 2008, I have been working with Macquarie Capital in Singapore, where I focus on corporate finance advisory for clients in the telecommunications, media and technology sectors across Asia.

Name Poon Baoqin

Degree BSocSc

Year Graduated 2008

Company Singapore Prisons Service

Industry Government / Non-Profit

Someone who enjoys learning and loves books and research, I graduated from the pioneer BSocSc cohort in 2008 with a double major in Psychology and Sociology. As a student, I lived life to the fullest, exploring as many channels that interested me as I could fit into my schedule, be it through activities in SMU or outside. As someone out in the workforce, I approach each day with an inquiring mind, and an open heart. Believing that however small a gathered piece of new information, it would eventually enrich our store of knowledge in ways we cannot fathom and open up doors for us in ways we may not even begin to imagine.

	Name	Dominic Ng
	Degree	BBM
	Year Graduated	2004
	Company	Cisco Systems
	Industry	Marketing / Sales
	Dominic joined the Interactive marketing arena as a humble free-lance flash designer. Since then, he has been rummaging through the “software” and “hardware” of digital marketing with euphoric motivation. Inspired to be a Technology Evangelist, Dominic strives to "unlearn and relearn" as much as he can within this continuum of Digital Communications and Marketing. Dominic Ng’s specialties are: - Data/Web Analytics - CRM Strategy Conceptualization & Planning - Search Engine Marketing (SEM) - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - Digital Media Partnership, Sponsorship & Contract Negotiation - End-to-end Digital Campaign Planning & Project Management - Regional Account Planning & Coordination - Digital Training & Process Implementation - Communication Planning & Insights - Sales and Marketing Process/Measurement Integration - Virtual Event Management (WebEx)

	Name	Gerald Goh Tuo-Yang
	Degree	BBM
	Year Graduated	2004
	Company	Cambridge Associates
	Industry	Consulting
	Gerald Goh is a Specialist Consultant in the Singapore office of Cambridge Associates. He works with a variety of clients in the U.S., Europe and Asia and is responsible for helping to build and oversee their dedicated global private equity and venture capital portfolios. Gerald also supports the private equity research team in providing primary investment research on Asian managers, and has led and participated in over a dozen due diligence projects in that area. Before joining Cambridge Associates in 2005, Gerald was an Analyst with the Financial Services consulting division of Accenture, where he led and participated in several business process re-engineering projects with a number of large Asian financial institutions. Gerald holds an undergraduate degree in Business Management with First Class Honors from the Singapore Management University.

	Name	Projjal Ghatak
	Degree	BSc (ISM)
	Year Graduated	2008
	Company	Accenture
	Industry	Consulting
	Projjal Ghatak graduated from SMU in 2008 with a Summa Cum Laude in BSc (Information Systems Management) and BBM (Marketing). He graduated with a perfect GPA, and was awarded the Singapore Computer Society Best Final Year IS Student award. Projjal was the founding president of the SMU International Ambassadors program run by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, to send the best international students back to leading schools in their home country to educate high school students on the attractiveness of SMU and Singapore as a undergraduate education destination. Projjal also spent some time in the SMU Debating Society representing the university in several Singapore inter-university debating competitions. Projjal spent the bulk of his childhood in Kolkata, India and finished his high school education from St. James' School, Kolkata where he was a school prefect in his senior year, responsible for organizing school activities and being a member of the student management body of the school. Currently, Projjal is a Business Analyst in Accenture's Strategy practice. His experience is currently in Growth Strategy, Distribution Strategy, Telecommunications and Retail. He has worked across Singapore, India and Malaysia over the last year with a global renewable energy firm, global consumer electronics giant and leading telecommunications players.

	Name	Chan Jing Tsyr, Jenny
	Degree	BBM
	Year Graduated	2008
	Company	iris Singapore
	Industry	Advertising
	Jenny Chan is a business management graduate (double major in marketing and corporate communications). In her current job at iris Singapore, she works on the Sony Ericsson account. Her experience ranges from organizing events on the local account to managing retail activation projects on the regional account. Being the first junior level account servicing person in Asia to be sent on a secondment to help start up iris's Beijing office, Jenny works with the retail marketing team on several projects. These projects span from the initial stages of research, through ideation and strategic formulation to finally conceptualisation and materialisation. Her other work experiences include a corporate affairs internship at Temasek Holdings, an internship and freelance experience at Ogilvy & Mather; working on accounts like DHL, Motorola, Nike and Rabobank, as well as assisting the Ogilvy & Mather APAC co-chairman with local, regional and international awards shows.

	Name	Chai Kok Hong , Clarence
	Degree	BAcc
	Year Graduated	2004
	Company	Citibank NA
	Industry	Banking
	Clarence was one of the pioneer students who joined SMU in its inaugural intake in 2000 and graduated with a summa cum laude in Accountancy and Business Management (Finance/Marketing) in 2004. He was a founding member and Vice President of the SMU Alumni Association between 2004 and 2007. He has been a member of ICPAS since 2007 and has gone on to attain his full CPA Singapore membership at the beginning of 2008. Clarence began his career with United Overseas Bank in its Commercial Banking Sector as a Management Associate in 2004 and went on to take on the role of a Relationship Manager responsible for the execution of growth and retention strategies for a portfolio of corporate/SME clients in industries including manufacturing, oil & gas, logistics, construction/engineering, F&B, electronics and retail. His responsibilities entail credit analysis of new prospects with evaluation of financial data and business trends, credit supervision and monitoring for credit delinquencies and deterioration of existing clients, apart from identifying business opportunities and marketing of bank products to exceed targets and ensure quality service delivery. Subsequently, he joined Citibank NA as a Relationship Manager for a portfolio of MNC clients in pharmaceutical, logistics, technology and consumer retail sectors.

	Name	Eric Chua
	Degree	BBM
	Year Graduated	2004
	Company	APL Logistics
	Industry	Banking and Finance
	Eric belongs to SMU’s pioneer batch of students and graduated magna cum laude in 2004 with a double degree in Business Management (Finance) and Accountancy. He was a founding member of Cognitare: The SMU Business Case Club and was actively involved in case training even after graduation. He joined the Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) Group in 2005 as an analyst in its Business Solutions unit. He then progressed to a regional role for the Group’s business in the Asia/Middle East (and later, South Asia) region. He is currently a business planning and strategy manager in APL Logistics, the Group’s logistics business unit. His line-of-work includes long-term planning, strategy formulation and implementation, performance measurement, management reporting, as well as project planning and management.

	Name	Nicholas Gerald Chia
	Degree	BSc (Econs) cum laude
	Year Graduated	2008
	Company	Ministry of Education
	Industry	Teaching
	I believe that interacting with people and being in a position to guide and form them is a talent that I possess. It is with this intent that I have chosen to become a school teacher trained to teach Economics at Junior College. I graduated from SMU in 2008 with a BSc(Econs) cum laude and is the only SMU graduate that is in the current cohort of Economics teachers in the National Institute of Education(NIE). I have chosen such a route because this is something that I enjoy doing. Being a mentor to the current juniors in SMU is a privilege as it enables me to share with them my life experience and allow them to use me as a sounding board to clarify issues such as the choice of a job and the different aspects of their life in SMU that they may need help in.

	Name	Wong Hur Ming
	Degree	BBM
	Year Graduated	2005
	Company	Deutsche Bank
	Industry	Banking
	Ming, as he is more affectionately known, is President of the SMU Alumni Association. He is responsible for leading the Alumni Association's Executive Committee, and coordinating its efforts in the interests of the SMU community at large. Upon graduation from the School of Business in 2005, Ming started his career at Deutsche Bank. He does business development and strategy planning for the Asset Management division, covering both Asia Pacific & Middle East markets.

	Name	Jeremy Nguee
	Degree	BAcc
	Year Graduated	2006
	Industry	Accounting
	Chef, soldier, photographer, consultant. Student, entrepreneur, employee. Been there, done that and not quite yet. On hindsight, there were a few things that I would have done differently, and there were a few things that I would not have stressed myself so much about. But that's Life. Thank God I'm now working with one of the best teams in one of the biggest consulting firms in the business. It's been a rough and hard 3 year journey getting here and I would like to share with my mentee how to avoid )and spot) the glass shards along the way. But my greatest offering to my mentee is learning how to stop (and spot) the roses along the way. Only people with a Passion for Life need apply. Nerds who want their A+ and that big nerdy banking job need not.

	Name	Dominic Wee
	Degree	BBM
	Year Graduated	2004
	Company	Symantec
	Industry	Information Systems
	My name is Dominic Wee and I graduated from SMU in 2004. Besides studying and working on projects in SMU, I was also part of SMUSA, SMUX, Links+ and Aikido. We also started a web marketing business with SMUâ€™s CIT support. After graduation, I started in sales at IBM where I managed the global business accounts. While at IBM, I was president of the recreational club and organized IBM day for 2,500 staff and family. I also won an ASEAN Leadership Award in 2005 for the first Contact Center project in SEA. In 2006, I joined HP as their youngest Enterprise Account Manager in HP Singapore history and won a HP Aspire Star Award that year. In Oct this year, I turned down Google and joined Symantec as a regional Business Development Manager to grow the SAAS business in Asia. In my leisure, I love watching foreign films and listening to music they donâ€™t play on the local radio.

	Name	Lester Lim
	Degree	MSc (Finance)
	Year Graduated	2005
	Industry	Information Systems
	I am an outgoing person that strive on managing changes and likes facing up new challenges. This is why I like I.T. in the investment banking industry. Everything moves very quickly and I always have to reinvent myself to adapt to the demands of my job. Managing a Team increases the difficulty exponentially as you have to consider the strength and weaknesses of your team and urge them to achieve the goals of your organisation. Having been in a government agency and 2 global investment banks; one in operations and the other in IT. I believe I will be on hand to provide a good coverage on the prospective career paths avail to someone who like to consider the pros and cons of working for the government or a stint in the financial industry in operations or IT.

	Name	Alvina Teh
	Degree	BBM (Summa cum laude)
	Year Graduated	2008
	Company	Multinine Company Ltd
	Industry	Media
	Alvina is an entrepreneur in the media industry. While at SMU, she was awarded the Standard Chartered Best First Year Business Student Award (2004), the OCBC Outstanding Student Award (2005), the SICC International Exchange Scholarship (2006) for a semester of study at University of Pennsylvania (The Wharton School), and the ABS Outstanding Graduating Business Student Award (2007). Alvina served as President of the SMU Broadcast & Entertainment Club, Founding Member of the SMU Campus Radio station, Founding Chairperson of the ReadSMU Campaign, and Public Relations Manager for SMU Convocation 2005. Alvina also served as an emcee for various university events such as SMU Official Opening, SMU Convocation Ceremony, and SMU Open House. For her contributions to the university, Alvina was awarded the Tan Tee Chee & Tsan Kah Ngooh Award. Alvina graduated as Valedictorian of SMU Class of 2007.

	Name	Tee Yock Siong
	Degree	BBM / BSc (Econs) (Summa cum laude)
	Year Graduated	2007
	Company	Temasek Holdings
	Industry	Investment
	Siong is a senior associate in the Investments Group in Temasek Holdings. Prior to joining Temasek, he was with McKinsey and Company in Singapore as a business analyst, where he was involved in several private equity projects and provided M&A advice to large multinational corporations. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from SMU with a B.B.M. in Finance and a B.Sc. in Economics. At SMU, he was heavily involved in the Debate Society (where he was President) and also as a member of Cognitare, where he was part of the team that won the Danone-TRUST Competition globally in Paris. Outside of work, he devotes his energies to electronic dance music and battling the proverbial bulge, a sad battle to which he is slowly but surely losing the fight.

	Name	Victor Ng Teck Wei
	Degree	BSc (Econs)
	Year Graduated	2007
	Company
	Industry	Finance
	Victor graduated from SMU's pioneer class of Economics students with the determination not to go into the finance industry. A twist of fate later, Victor now works in a boutique M&A advisory and consulting firm specialising in the logistics sector. Prior to this experience, Victor was involved briefly in a finance industry start-up, and was consultant in a regional investor relations firm working closely with the senior management of S-Chip companies. A former President of the Students’ Association, Victor continues to actively contribute his free time to community work through various channels. In particular, Victor is passionate about the mentoring of young leaders in the areas of leadership and better approaches to serving the community. Through the SMU Alumni Mentorship Program, Victor hopes to help current student leaders develop in various aspects of their lives, and hopefully escape the unimaginative (but enjoyable) end that has befallen himself.

	Name	Ahmad Firdaus Daud
	Degree	BSc (ISM)
	Year Graduated	2008
	Company	Ministry of Community, Youth and Sports (MCYS)
	Industry	Government / Non-profit
	Ahmad Firdaus Daud works in the Community Relations department of the Ministry of Community, Youth and Sports (MCYS), specializing in Malay-Muslim affairs. He was previously involved in ASEAN Free Trade Agreements (FTA) in the Trade division of the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI). Firdaus graduated Magna Cum Laude from Singapore Management University with a BSc (Informations Systems Management) with a second major in Law. During his time in SMU, he was awarded the Goh Foundation Scholarship and was also President of the Students' Association. Besides being a regular fixture at Arab Street, Firdaus also works on a social enterprise web application with some friends and plays the drum for a post-rock band.

	Name	Sarah Seow
	Degree	BAcc (summa cum laude)
	Year Graduated	2005
	Company	Pursuing Masters degree at Lund University
	Industry	Management
	I was among the first batch of students in the School of Accountancy from 2001 to 2005, and graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Accountancy (2nd major in Law) in July 2005 as the Valedictorian of SoA for that year. During my time with SMU, I travelled overseas through summer courses (UBC in Vancouver, Canada in 2002), student exchange (Lund University in autumn of 2004) and special competitions (visited Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, USA as reward for winning the Microsoft-SMU Business Competition). Upon graduating, I entered General Electric's 2-year financial management program which further extended my international exposure, this time in the context of the real working world, through various roles in Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, and USA. I subsequently joined Deloitte & Touche Singapore as a tax senior for 1.5 years, before relocating to Lund, Sweden in April 2009 after my marriage to my Swedish husband. I am currently doing a 1-year Masters course in Corporate and Financial Management at the School of Economics and Management in Lund University. I would like to mentor SMU students who come to Lund University on exhange, particularly in the area of career and academic related advice.

	Name	Elfarina Zaid
	Degree	BBM
	Year Graduated	2004
	Company	ProGolf International
	Industry	Marketing / Sales
	- Co-Active Coach - Brand Manager - Progolf International LLC - Parent Whether you want to enrich your professional career or attain a fufilling personal life, I am here to help you be creative with your inner resources to achieve the changes and the outcomes you truly want. As a Co-Active Coach, I have successfully completed Co-Active Coaching Course which is an ICF (International Coach Federation) Accredited Coach Training Program.I am also a professional Co-Active Coach. A pioneer SMU alumnus, I have also been working and living in Dubai for 5 years, and am currently based there. My professional experience as Cabin Crew and currently as Brand Manager of Progolf International has allowed me to interact with multi-nationalities and practice multi-dimensional marketing in retail & golf industry. I also wear a different hat as a new parent to a baby girl.

	Name	Jessene Lim
	Degree	BBM (cum laude)
	Year Graduated	2005
	Company	Citadel Consulting
	Industry	Human Resources
	Jessene Lim is a consultant under the Citadel Consulting arm, customising programs like training, coaching, teambuilding, assessments, profiling tools and 360 feedback surveys to produce desired performance outcomes for clients. She was also involved in the start-up phase of the headhunting arm of Citadel Search and also handles all the marketing aspects of the group from managing events to advertising. In 2008, Jessene was also engaged in a 1 year full-time volunteer program. She has spent time in Laos, Indonesia and Timor Leste undertaking developmental work to teach English, computer skills and running health and water projects. Jessene graduated from the Singapore Management University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Business Management (cum laude) with a major in marketing.

	Name	Audrey Ung
	Degree	BBM (magna cum laude)
	Year Graduated	2005
	Company	VMware
	Industry	Information Systems
	Audrey is currently assisting Senior Director for VMware Partner Organization for Asia Pacific and Japan. At VMware she is responsible for assisting Senior Director for the OEM, Distribution, resellers, system integration partners and relationships. Audrey set up workshops to train partner managers and partners in the ecosystem to better equip them to sell VMware. She utilizes business planning tools to assist in supporting operations and provide reports to assess business effectiveness. Prior to joining VMware, Audrey has worked for Microsoft, Dimerco Express and most recently with Servcorp where she was Virtual Office Manager. Audrey is an SMU alumnus from the School of Business class of 2001 – she graduated in 2005 magna cum laude with double majors in Finance and Marketing after attending an exchange program with the University of British Columbia in summer 2005.

	Name	Ben Toh Zhi Sian
	Degree	BAcc
	Year Graduated	2009
	Company	NTUC Income
	Industry	Insurance
	-Presently a management trainee at a financial institution. -Experienced professional in delivering creative sales presentations, preparing written proposals and client handling. -Prior working experience in banking, private equity and insurance. -Background in business administration, financial accounting and corporate communications. - Active student leader in events and project management previously, chairing numerous committees and initiatives.

	Name	Yeo Keng Hong , Chris
	Degree	BSc (ISM)
	Year Graduated	2008
	Company	Lucas Film
	Industry	Information Systems
	I have a bachelor degree in Information System Management and a second major in Finance. During my course of study and after I graduate, I have been into quite a few different industry before finding out what I really want for in my career. I believe with my personal experience and the wide range of job experience and the various type of interview I been through, I would be able to provide some assistance to the students. With that, I also had a chance to lived in Korea for my exchange program and in US for my work. This valuable experience had made me a more independent person, able to adapt to different environment and communicate well with people from all over the world. With Singapore having more expats coming, it's important to know how to work with them.

	Name	Serene Lim
	Degree	BSc (Econs)
	Year Graduated	2007
	Company	MF Global
	Industry	Finance
	Currently sales trading with one of the largest international futures brokerage, MF Global. 2 years with Morgan Stanley’s Equity Sales and Trading team and internships with leading institutions in the consulting and banking industries. A fast learner, mature and confident. A committed and consistent member of the Singapore National Netball squad since 2003. Economics and Finance graduate from Singapore Management University.

	Name	Goh Di Kun
	Degree	BSc (Econs)
	Year Graduated	2008
	Company	Macquarie Capital
	Industry	Banking
	Graduated from School of Economics, majoring in Econs and Finance. While in SMU, I was involved in Obligato (String Ensemble) and the United Nations' Student Association (UNSA). - Initiated and embarked on a "gap year" project in April 2006. Beginning with an internship in a consultancy in Shanghai, I then went on an exchange programme at the European Business School in Germany. In early 2007, I landed an internship with ABN AMRO's M&A team in Frankfurt, where I had my first taste of corporate finance advisory. In summer 2007, I participated in the Tata International Internship Programme, during which I interned with Tata Consultancy Services in India. Subsequent to which, I initiated an independent research project on automotive strategic alliances in China.- Since Jan 2008, I have been working with Macquarie Capital in Singapore, where I focus on corporate finance advisory for clients in the telecommunications, media and technology sectors across Asia.

	Name	Poon Baoqin
	Degree	BSocSc
	Year Graduated	2008
	Company	Singapore Prisons Service
	Industry	Government / Non-Profit
	Someone who enjoys learning and loves books and research, I graduated from the pioneer BSocSc cohort in 2008 with a double major in Psychology and Sociology. As a student, I lived life to the fullest, exploring as many channels that interested me as I could fit into my schedule, be it through activities in SMU or outside. As someone out in the workforce, I approach each day with an inquiring mind, and an open heart. Believing that however small a gathered piece of new information, it would eventually enrich our store of knowledge in ways we cannot fathom and open up doors for us in ways we may not even begin to imagine.