KEY MANAGEMENT
alan lo
SVP Corporate Development
Appointed in October 2014, Alan is our Senior Vice President, Corporate
Development and he is responsibe for the Group’s corporate affairs and expanding
our strategic business alliances. Working at various well-known financial institutions
in Singapore and Hong Kong (including Maybank Kim Eng Securities Pte Ltd,
Deutsche Securities Asia Limited, Morgan Stanley Asia Limited among others), Alan
has accumulated more than 20 years of capital markets experience and corporate
finance-related knowledge.
Alan holds a Master of Business Administration from the Columbia Business School
in New York, NY, USA. During his course of studies at Columbia Business School, he
was in the Dean’s List as well as the Beta Gamma Sigma for his outstanding academic
achievments. Alan also obtained a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering (cum laude)
from Yale University CT, USA.
LUCY CHER
Finance Director
Appointed in November 2015, Lucy is our Finance Director and is responsible for
the Group’s accounting, finance, tax, and compliance. She is a Chartered Accountant
and a finance professional with more than 25 years experience across Asia Pacific
covering audit, accounting, sales financing, credit management, treasury, forecasting
and controls. She worked in Caterpillar, Aegion Corporation, PriceWaterHouse
Singapore and was the Group CFO for New Toyo International Holdings Limited
prior to joining SMI.
Lucy gained her Six Sigma and Lean certification and experience during Caterpillar
and uses it effectively to imrpove processes and increase profits. She is a Chartered
Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales
(ICAEW) and the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA). She holds
a Masters of Applied Finance from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and a
Bachelor of Accountancy from the National University of Singapore.
JOHN PIKE
General Counsel
John has been our General Counsel since May 2015, and is responsible for the
Group’s legal affairs. He graduated with a Masters degree in philosophy, politics and
economics from Oxford University. He is a barrister called to the Bar of England and
Wales in November 2003. John has had a career in shipping, commercial banking,
invesment banking, law and agriculture in London, Tokyo, Frankfurt and Phnom
Penh, doing business in most parts of the world.
He moved into banking with the Citibank Group, and later moved to Tokyo where
he was active in providing trade and project finance for major Japanese corporations
and trading companies as well as developing flag of convenience ship financing in
various jurisdictions. As director of investment research for a major German bank,
he advised on USD 140 billion of assets. After 15 years working in Japanese and
German investment banking, John qualified as a barrister. More recently, John has
been residing in Cambodia, involed with both NGOs and legal work.
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