Ted Tan

Ted Tan has extensive experience in establishing strategic partnerships, building high performance organisations and growing successful enterprises. Ted brings to boards more than 30 years of experience in leadership, mentoring, profit and loss responsibility, governance, risk management and building high performance organisations. He spent the first 18 years of his career in the private sector and held senior positions including CEO and Managing Director of U.S. and UK companies. At GE Information Services, he was awarded the Markmakers Award 3 times for achieving the Top 1% sales in Asia Pacific. Ted was instrumental in the public listing of a Fintech company before joining the public service in 2003 for the next 18 years.

He is an advisor and mentor to ESG in industry and enterprise development and establishing strategic partnerships to help start-ups and enterprises grow into globally competitive companies. He is currently the Board Member of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), and the Committee for Private Education (CPE) of SkillsFuture Singapore. Ted is also the Chairman of the Aquaculture Innovation Centre (AIC) and Member of the Advisory Panel of the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technology University.

Education

• INSEAD - International Directors Programme, Business Administration and Management Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
• Harvard University - Advanced Management Program, Business Administration and Management 2005 - 2005
• University of Minnesota - Master of Business Administration - MBA 1985 - 1987
• University of Windsor - Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering 1980 - 1984