Lucas Chow

Lucas Chow Wing Keung is the former chief executive officer of MediaCorp and SingTel Mobile.^[3] Currently he is the group chief executive officer and managing director of Far East Orchard.

Lucas Chow Wing Keung
Lucas Chow speaking at the movie premiere of It's a Great, Great World
Born	1953 or 1954 (age 70–71) [1] Hong Kong
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]

Early life

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]

Career

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]