Mr. Tan Soon Liang is our Non-Executive Director and was appointed to our Board on 9 June 2009. Mr. Tan has more than 10 years of experience in the banking and finance industry, particularly in the field of corporate finance, strategy consulting and execution.
Mr. Tan is currently director of Ti Ventures Pte Ltd which provides corporate development and business advisory services to growing companies in Asia. Prior to this role, he was Head of Business Advisory with BDO Raffles Advisory Pte Ltd since April 2006 and responsible for origination and execution of Pre-IPO, mergers and acquisition and growth advisory mandates. He was also an Associate Director of Sirius Venture Consulting Pte Ltd where he was involved in private equity investments and strategy consulting for SMEs. He has full experience in deal origination, evaluation, due diligence, structuring, execution and project management of IPO and fund raising projects in Asia. He was also Director of Sirius Management Services and Pyxis Communications & Consultancy Pte Ltd. From 1997 to 2002, he worked in JP Morgan & Co Inc, as an analyst, in DBS Bank Group as a Deputy Manager in the Equity Capital Markets Department before founding T2 Global Pte Ltd and joining AIA Company Ltd as a financial consultant to provide financial advisory to high net worth individuals and business owners.
Mr. Tan graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a Bachelor of Business (Honours) Degree majoring in Financial Analysis in 1997 and subsequently, in 2000, obtained a Master of Business Administration Degree from the University of Hull, United Kingdom. Mr. Tan is also a CFA charterholder and member of CFA Institute.
