Faculty Bio
Module 1: The Role of Directors: Duties, Responsibilities & Legal Obligations
Module 2: Assessing Strategic Performance: The Board Level View
Module 3: Finance for Directors
Pearlie Koh is an Associate Professor of Law in the School of Law at the Singapore Management University . She is also an Advocate and Solicitor of the Singapore Supreme Court. Prior to joining academia, she worked with the corporate department of a major Singapore law firm. Thereafter, she joined the Nanyang Technological University , teaching company law as well as business law to Accountancy and Business undergraduates at the Nanyang Business School . She was also responsible for developing the Corporate Law and Administration course for MBA participants at the Nanyang Business School .
Adrian is Head of the Corporate Department and a Senior Partner at Lee & Lee. He has been a partner since 1995. He actively practises in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance , venture capital work, corporate and commercial law, capital markets, domestic and international joint ventures, corporate restructuring, securities law, stock exchange practice and employment law.
He is recommended as a Leading Individual for Corporate/M&A in Singapore by Chambers Global in its 2006 edition of The Client's Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers for Business. He has also been described by The Asia Pacific Legal 500 in its Guide to Asia 's Commercial Law Firms as “a terrific corporate lawyer with an impressive track record in the market”. In addition, he has been recommended in the same publication as a Leading Individual in the field of Capital Markets. He has separately been one of the few named by the World Legal Forum in its Guide to Law Firms Around the Globe as part of the “impressive next generation” of top corporate lawyers in Singapore.
He continues into his ninth year of service on the Corporate Practice Committee of the Law Society of Singapore. He is also a director of Lovells Lee & Lee, the joint law venture between Lee & Lee and the international law firm, Lovells. He is the Non-executive Chairman of AEM Holdings Ltd and is an independent director on the Boards of United Pulp & Paper Company Limited, Isetan (Singapore) Limited, Oniontech Limited and Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd, which are public-listed companies on the Singapore Stock Exchange.
NEIL R. JONES (DBA, Harvard University)
Neil Jones is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Singapore Management University. Prior to joining SMU, he was an Affiliate Professor in Strategy and Technology Management at INSEAD (2000 to 2004), a Visiting Assistant Professor at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, (1999-2000) and an Assistant Professor at the Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, (1996 to 2000).
Before going into academia, Neil had also held positions at McKinsey and Company, First National Bank of Chicago and Amoco Production Company (now BP). Neil's research areas are in Technology Strategy, Management of Technological Change and Product Development Performance. The companies that Neil had taught Executive Education and had consulting engagements with include a wide variety of firms, such as Nokia, 3M, 3i, BOC, Shell, SAP, DKSH, Hewlett-Packard, Alcatel, United Technologies, Unilab etc.
ANG SER KENG (MBA, London Business School)
ANG SER-KENG is a Senior Lecturer of Finance at SMU. Besides his academic appointment, he is the director of the UOB-SMU Entrepreneurship Alliance Centre. He also served as the Associate Director of the MSc in Wealth Management Program at SMU.
Prior to his appointment at SMU, Ser-Keng spent over seven years in investment banking. He spent nine years in London and Hong Kong, where he was involved in the origination and execution of a number of cross-border transactions in the Asia Pacific region at international banks, such as Deutsche Bank, ABN AMRO and Flemings, especially in mergers & acquisitions and capital markets. At Deutsche Bank, he was responsible for an acquisition in the US, amounting to US$5.5 billion, for a Japanese MNC. As a Senior Vice President at ABN AMRO, he was also responsible for cross-selling a broader range of products, ranging from debt to derivative products, M&A to ECM, as well as cash management to trade services. Prior to his career in investment banking, Ser-Keng worked at Arthur Andersen and Credit Suisse First Boston.
HWANG SOO CHIAT (PhD, Macquarie University)
Hwang Soo Chiat is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the School of Accountancy, Singapore Management University. Soo Chiat first joined academia in 1979 as a lecturer with the then University of Singapore. Soo Chiat’s current research interests include the use of accounting ratios for prediction of bankruptcy of companies, corporate governance, and changing cultural values in Singapore. He has published in local and international journals.
