AVARGA - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Lead Independent Director
Ms. Lai has over 20 years of corporate and investment banking experience. Formerly Head of corporate banking for CIMB Singapore and Head of international corporate banking for CIMB group. Responsible for business strategy and portfolio development, managed asset portfolio in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and other countries. Served as a member of the Group Credit, Risk and Compliance, Asset and Liability and Business Management committees of the bank.
Prior to CIMB, she joined the international banking of DBS. She was also partner of a real estate private equity firm.
Ms. Lai presently serves on the board of directors of 3Cnergy Ltd, listed on the Singapore Exchange. She also serves as the Chairman of Audit Committee and is a member of the Remuneration and Nominating committees of the company.
She graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from The University of Western Australia. A Fellow of CPA.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Independent Director
Mr. Kang is an executive director and the CEO of HThree City, a real estate investment management firm in Singapore.
Mr. Kang has over twenty years of experience in private equity, fund management and investment banking. Prior to establishing HThree City, Mr. Kang was the Deputy CEO of a private equity real estate manager, and before that with ANZ Investment Bank and Ernst & Young.
Mr. Kang holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and an MBA from the Melbourne Business School, Australia. He is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (Australia).
Mr. Lim has held various managerial positions in financial institutions and stockbroking firms in Malaysia and Singapore.
He was Head of Dealing in Phileo Allied Securities Sdn Bhd in the late 1990's and Head of Equity Capital Markets in Aminvest Bank Berhad in 2003 - 2005.
Mr. Lim served as an independent non-executive director in WCT Holdings Berhad (listed in Bursa Malaysia) from 2013 - 2017. He is currently a private investor.
He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
Job Titles:
- Independent Director
- Founder and Chief Executive Officer of GM Capital Management Singapore
Mr. Moey is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of GM Capital Management Singapore, an investment management and principal investments firm in Singapore.
Over the last two decades, Mr. Moey has been investing in early-stage growth companies in the Asia-Pacific region (including Japan), advising and growing the businesses, investing through successful financing rounds and eventual public and private exits. He has also been active in commercial real estate in the UK and Japan and was previously with Salomon Smith Barney and Goldman Sachs in New York and Singapore before founding GM Capital Management.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Philosophy from the National University of Singapore.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Executive Director
- Chief Executive Officer of the Group
- Director of the Edge Media Group Pte Ltd
Mr. Tong Ian is the Chief Executive Officer of the Group. He joined the Group in 2012 and was appointed Executive Director in 2017 and Chief Executive Officer in 2020. He is also the Chairman of Taiga Building Products Ltd., which became a subsidiary corporation of the Group in 2017, and oversees the Group's interests in that company.
Mr. Tong Ian is a director of The Edge Media Group Pte Ltd that publishes The Edge Singapore, The Edge Malaysia. He is also a director of The Edge Property Pte Ltd which owns the property portals EdgeProp.sg and EdgeProp.my.
Mr. Tong Ian holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Trinity Western University and a Masters in Management from Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada.