Lucas Chow Wing Keung is the former

chief executive officer A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especial ...

MediaCorp Mediacorp Pte. Ltd., doing business as Mediacorp and stylised as mediacorp, is a media conglomerate in Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the holding company of the Government of Singapore—it owns television, radio, and digital media prope ...

, SingTel Mobile. and group chief executive officer and managing director of

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. He is currently the chairman of

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and a member of the board of trustees of National University of Singapore

Early life

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

Career

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

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and combined market that the region can offer. He relinquished his position as CEO of MediaCorp in July 2011. and assuming the post of executive director at

Far East Organization Far East Organization is one of the largest private real estate developers in Singapore. It has businesses in property development, retail, hospitality, and food and beverage brands in Asia and Australia. The company was founded by the late Sin ...

(FEO). In March 2012, Chow was appointed the CEO of

(previously known as ''Orchard Parade Holdings''), a subsidiary of FEO. 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.

References

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