Lucas Chow

Chow was born in Hong Kong and subsequently granted Singapore citizenship.^[5] He graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree from the University of Aston, United Kingdom.^[4]

Chow started his career at Hewlett-Packard, where he worked for over 20 years and eventually became the company's head in Singapore.^[5][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.^[2]

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]