CFO Gets New SingTel CEO Gig

Written by Adam Gosling

Friday, 22 September 2006

The Group CEO position at SingTel now has a name attached to it after the appointment of Chua Sock Koong who currently serves the company as CEO International and CFO. The appointment is expected to take effect on 1 April 2007 and could be followed by changes within the company. Although she may look internally at the organisation Chua told a press ocnferernce announcing her appointment that the company would continue to look at increasing its regioinal investments. Chua, who joined SingTel in 1989, will replace Lee Hsien Yang, the current Group CEO who announced his resignation would take affect once a suitable replacment was found. "The SingTel Group will be in excellent hands," said Lee of the new appointment. "As a key member of the senior management team, Sock Koong has been intimately involved in all the key operational decisions, and has had broad exposure across all areas of the business. "She has also been instrumental to developing SingTel's strategy over the past ten years and has played a significant role in SingTel's major acquisitions, divestments and partnerships.  She is well known to our business partners and the investor community.  Having worked side-by-side with Sock Koong for many years, I am confident that she is more than qualified for her new role leading the SingTel Group." Chua said, "Hsien Yang has built up SingTel into a very highly regarded telecom operator with an unrivalled footprint in the region.  I am honoured to be given the challenge of continuing to build on its success and to be able to work with an excellent team that any CEO would be proud to lead." Chumpol NaLamlieng, Chairman of SingTel, said, "We are extremely fortunate to have a leader of Sock Koong's calibre and experience to take the helm.  Sock Koong has been an outstanding CFO, and the numerous awards and accolades she has received for her role as CFO in SingTel bears testimony to this.  She has been closely involved in the transformation and growth of SingTel and has played a key role in making SingTel the operationally and financially very strong company that it is today.   Related news items Ericsson To Build Vodafone HSPA -06/03/2008 Optus Goes Ahead With Rural 3G -29/01/2007 Optus Hands Out Freebies For Confused Customers -12/12/2006 BlackBerry's Latest: What A Pearla -28/11/2006 Optus Mobile A Biright Spot In Quarter's Results -08/11/2006 Newer news items Flat Rate Broadband Plan For 3G -16/11/2006 Vodafone Australia Exceeds Half Year Targets -14/11/2006 Soul's B Digital Offers Closes at 97.4% -13/11/2006 Soul Reaches 90% Of B Digital -08/11/2006 Vodafone Australia Signs For Nokia Services -02/11/2006 Older news items Carriers Form 4G Lobby Group -14/09/2006 BigAir First Post-IPO Result A Ripper -13/09/2006 ACCC Rejects Telstra Mobile Termination Charges -11/09/2006 Vodafone Adds Brisbane Lions To Portfolio -10/09/2006 Mobile TV In Vietnam By Year’s End -10/09/2006 Tag This Now: