14 University Students Selected for CEOx1Day 2018-2019

Singapore, 4 January, 2019 - The CEOx1Day (CEO for a Day) programme is a global initiative, the first and only one of its kind, designed to uncover promising future leaders and to match them with today’s top leaders. The programme enables these young talents to learn about and experience the responsibilities and complexities required to lead some of the world’s leading businesses and organisations. At the same time, CEOs, through their interaction with and mentorship of the selected students, can better understand what drives the next generation of leaders.

This year’s programme attracted 160 undergraduate student applicants for 14 finalist places, a more than two-fold increase from the 69 applicants with 7 finalists in its inaugural year of 2017-2018 edition. The participating tertiary institutions were the National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore Management University (SMU), with Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) being the most recent participating university this year.

Mr Andie Rees, Managing Partner, Odgers Berndtson Southeast Asia said, “Singapore was chosen as the first country in this region to roll out the programme due to its diversity, dynamism and openness. We believe that the landscape of leaders in Singapore has changed tremendously and the CEOx1Day will enable organisations to remain at the top of their game in terms of attracting high calibre candidates from local tertiary institutions to be groomed as future leaders.”

 

The 14 pairs of participating CEOs and finalists for CEOx1Day 2018-2019 include: 

BANG YING HO

Singapore Management University

Double degree in Business Management (Finance) & Economics

Matched with: John Davison, CEO at Zuellig Pharma

 

DENG JING

Singapore University of Technology and Design | Singapore Management University

Business Management (SMU) | Engineering (SUTD)

Matched with: Ai Hua Ong, Company Group Chairman APAC at Janssen

 

HUI YING LEE

National University of Singapore

Political Science and Government

Matched with: Maya Hari, MD APAC at Twitter

 

JIA HAO TAN

Singapore University of Technology and Design | Singapore Management University

Engineering Systems and Design (SUTD) | Business Management (SMU)

Matched with: Loke Kheng Tham, CEO at Mediacorp

 

JIELE LIN

Nanyang Technological University

Accounting

Matched with: Yen Yen Tan, President APAC at Vodafone

 

JING SHUN ANG

National University of Singapore

Mechanical Engineering

Matched with: Martin Hayes, President at Bosch Southeast Asia

 

LIGONG ZHANG

Nanyang Technological University

Double degree in Accountancy and Business

Matched with: Adam Reynolds, CEO APAC at Saxo Group

 

LUCAS KANG HAN-WEI

Nanyang Technological University

Communication Studies

Matched with: Mark Heap, CEO APAC at MediaCom

 

RUI YING CHAN (REGINE)

Nanyang Technological University

Business (Strategy & Management) and Computer Science

Matched with: Tian Chong Ng, President APJ at HP

 

SASHIKUMAR KANNAPPAN

Singapore Management University

Double degree in Business Management (Operations) and Social Sciences (Politics, Law and Economics)

Matched with: Yoong Kang Zee, CEO at Health Promotion Board

 

WINDRICH

National University of Singapore

Electrical Engineering

Matched with: Tim Schmid, Company Group Chairman APAC at Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices

 

XUEFEI BAI

Singapore University of Technology and Design

Engineering Systems and Design

Matched with: Walter De Oude, CEO at Singapore Life

 

YIFAN CUI

National University of Singapore

Chemical Engineering

Matched with: Wouter Van Wersch, President & CEO APAC at General Electric

 

YU XUAN CHUA

Nanyang Technological University

Mechanical Engineering and Technology Management

Matched with: Hari Krishnan, CEO at PropertyGuru

 

Added Mr Rees, “While still in its fledgling state in Singapore, compared to other offices in the world, we see great promise in growing this programme further, to attract more tertiary institutions and organisations to participate in this initiative. The success of the programme in Singapore is attested to by the fact that we have doubled the number of applicants we have received from undergraduates from participating tertiary institutions since the launch just last year. We have also grown the number of participating CEOs from seven to 14 this year, with three repeat participating companies.”

 

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