Lucas Chow Wing Keung is the former chief executive officerofMediaCorp, SingTel Mobile.[3] and group chief executive officer and managing director of Far East Orchard.
Lucas Chow Wing Keung
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Lucas Chow speaking at the movie premiere of It's a Great, Great World
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| Born | 1953 or 1954 (age 69–70) [1]
Hong Kong
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| Nationality | Singaporean[2] |
| Alma mater | University of Aston |
| Occupation(s) | Chairman, Health Promotion Board |
He is currently the chairman of Health Promotion Board[4] and a member of the board of trustees of National University of Singapore[5]
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]
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]