Mr Chia Lee Meng Raymond PBM
Executive Director and
Group Chief Executive Officer
Mr Chia Lee Meng Raymond has helmed the role of Group Chief Executive Officer since February 2016. On 5 May 2016, he was appointed as Executive Chairman of the Company. With effect from 11 October 2018, he was re-designated from Executive Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer to Executive Director and Group Chief Executive Officer.
He is responsible for the Group’s overall operations, strategic planning and investment decisions. Starting out as a project manager back in 1994, Mr Chia rose through the ranks and was appointed as director of the Company in 1999. He served as Managing Director of the property development division in July 2006, before being appointed Group Chief Executive Officer in June 2007 and Executive Deputy Chairman in January 2013. Outside the Group, Mr Chia was Chairman of Seacare Properties Pte Ltd from October 2003 to October 2019, and Director of Seacare Holdings Pte Ltd from September 2006 to September 2019.
Mr Chia is currently President of The Singapore Scout Association and Board Member of Ren Ci Hospital. He is also a patron of the Nee Soon South Citizens’ Consultative Committee. Mr Chia was awarded The Public Service Stars PBM in 2013 for public service rendered to the nation. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Finance from Curtin University and a Master’s degree in Finance from RMIT.
Mr Michael Ng
Executive Director of CEL Development Pte Ltd
Mr Michael Ng joined the Group in January 2017. He is responsible for the Group’s Property Development and Investment Divisions.
Prior to joining Chip Eng Seng, Mr Ng was Group General Manager of United Industrial Corporation Limited and Singapore Land Limited where he managed the diversified real estate investments and developments of the group in Singapore, China and UK.
He was Managing Director of Savills Singapore from 2005 to 2010, where he spearheaded a turnaround of its operations. Mr Ng was Managing Director of UK owned Hamptons International in Singapore from 2001. He subsequently led a management buyout of the Singapore office and expanded the business successfully before selling the operations to Savills Singapore in December 2004. He was also a founding shareholder of Huttons Real Estate in 2002. From 1995 to 2001, Mr Ng headed the property arm of COSCO Singapore, a China state-owned maritime group, handling its real estate development, investments, acquisitions, project management and asset management. Some of the projects included commercial, retail and residential developments and investments in Singapore, other parts of Southeast Asia and China. The early part of his career was with Richard Ellis (now known as CBRE) from 1988 to 2004 where he honed his acumen in asset management, real estate investment advisory and marketing.
He was a panel member of the Strata Titles Boards, under the Ministry of Law from 1999 to 2008. Mr Ng holds Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in Estate Management from the National University of Singapore and has been in the real estate industry for over 30 years.
Ms Lim Sock Joo
Executive Director of CEL Development Pte Ltd
Ms Lim is the Executive Director of the Group’s property development and hospitality divisions. Her responsibilities include the day-to-day management of the divisions’ operations as well as their sales and marketing needs.
In 1993, Ms Lim first joined the construction division as an administrative and finance executive responsible for accounting, administration and human resource matters. In June 2006, her role was enlarged to include the sales and marketing of the property development division following her appointment as Director of the division until June 2012. Ms Lim holds a Bachelor Degree in Business (Accounting) from the Curtin University of Technology, Australia.