The UOB-SMU Entrepreneurship Mentorship Programme is to provide professional guidance and strategic advice to SMU students who are budding entrepreneurs planning their own start-ups and business enterprises.

The Programme will help SMU students bring their business blueprint from the drawing board to reality.

Budding student entrepreneurs will be assigned a mentor for each entrepreneurial project group. Three mentors who are established local entrepreneurs in their areas of expertise have volunteered to provide training in business planning, marketing, entrepreneurship and financing.

• Dr Gregory Leong, Managing Partner/Director of the Shenton Family Clinics,
• Mr Edmund Chye, Owner of Serangoon Garden Village Center, and
• Mr Winson Lan, CEO of A&P Coordinator and Kikuze Solutions.

They will also provide students with advice in the areas of goal-setting, as well as problem identification and how best to manage them. Moving forward, the team of mentors will be increased. SMU students who have business plans can apply to be placed on The Programme.

The mentorship programme aims to further reinforce the objectives of the Alliance to develop and train SMU student consulting teams to increase their capability and business experience to address the development and growth needs of local enterprises more effectively.

By steering a business start-up of their own, students will gain first-hand experience of the possible peaks and troughs when running a local enterprise. In addition, they will be equipped with increased knowledge and perspectives fo the business environment in the real world. Ultimately, it will help to build a healthy community of young entrepreneurs.

In line with the Alliance's objectives of developing and growing the local enterprises sector in Singapore, there are plans in the pipeline to extend this Programme to other young entrepreneurs outside of SMU.