Educational Qualification

Mr Lee is a member of the ACCA professional programme.

Professional Experience

Mr Lee has ten years of extensive industrial experience in the area of accounting and finance. He was the Financial Controller of a Public Listed Company before heading the Department of Accounting for another Public Listed Company with an international education network. Ben was also the Training and Development Manager of an International Professional Accountancy Body.

Ben was also the Training and Development Manager of a large international professional accountancy body in UK before pursuing his teaching career

Lecturing Experience

Mr Lee is an associate lecturer with University of Wales, University of Bradford, Curtin University of Technology and University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology. He is also actively involved in corporate training, some of the companies that he had provided training are Siemens, Maxtor, Caltex, NTUC and Singapore Institute of Labour Studies. He specializes in the area of financial management, financial and cost accounting.

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Chan Chee Kin     BSc(Hons), Economics & M.S. in Fiance

Educational Qualification

Mr.Alex Chan graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Economics from University of London.. He obtained his Master of Science in Finance from the EDHEC Business School in Nice, France. His research interest lies in the field of time series analysis, volatility modeling and asset allocation.

Professional Experience

Prior to lecturing, Mr. Alex Chan worked for a brief period under the Futures and Options Brokerage team of a foreign investment bank and has valuable operations experience within the back-end office.

Lecturing Experience

As an active and enthusiastic learner, Mr Alex Chan conducted frequent informal class gathering to tutor his peers and prepare for examinations throughout his undergraduate and postgraduate days. Many of his peers developed strong understanding of the curriculum and benefited vastly from revising for examinations using his self compiled notes.

He has taught financial and managerial accounting and information technology subjects in the diploma, bachelor and master degree level. Programmes taught include SIM University, Murdoch University and University of London.

Being committed and patient, he is keen to help many students improve on their academic performance. While teaching full-time in UOL programme, Mr. Chung as a member of the dedicated team, helped produce first-class honours graduates over the years.

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Daniel Ho Chee Woon     BBA & MBA

Educational Qualification

Daniel graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the National University of Singapore and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Strathclyde, UK.

Professional Experience

Daniel Ho is the founder and director of Strategic Creative Group (SCG), a firm focused on the strategic and innovative application of Information Technology to improve business performance and competitiveness. Daniel is also the Director of People Trends, a 'People Solutions' company focused on creating and providing knowledge, solutions and services relating to People, delivered through its Media, Publications, Events and Conference business. Prior to founding these two companies, Daniel had a successful 15 years career in strategic IT planning and management covering the Asia Pacific region for four multi-national companies - Levi Strauss, PSA Corporation, Philips Electronics and SONY. During his overseas job posting with SONY, Daniel served as the vice-chairman of the Singapore Association in Hong Kong, which organised social and volunteer events and activities to foster a closer Singaporean community abroad.

Lecturing Experience

Daniel Lectures MBA subjects in Global Leadership, Organisational Behaviour, Information Technology and Business Diploma subjects in Marketing, Organisational Behaviour and Economics. Approved by NCC to lecture the Strategic IT management degree program.

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Educational Qualification

Elisa Noble graduated with a Bachelors of Laws from the University of Bristol in the UK. She is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Professional Experience

Elisa has over 9 years of experience in professional practice as an auditor, working for a medium sized firm in London and Singapore. As an audit manager Elisa also conducted in-house staff training and worked on technical and compliance projects.

Lecturing Experience

In addition to teaching financial management for the UOL programme, Elisa is also teaching financial management and financial reporting for the ACA programme in Singapore as well as some CPE seminars for auditors.

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Educational Qualification

Mr Goh is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants UK and is in public practice. He is also a Fellow Certified Public Accountant of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore. Mr Goh graduated from the ACCA examinations achieving top place for the "Advanced Accounting Practice" (a double paper) and ?ax and Tax Management. He was the Chairman of the Student's Section Committee during his studentship and served as a committee member of the ACCA (Singapore Branch) after graduation.

Professional Experience

Mr Goh is a sole practitioner in his own accounting firm for the past 20 years. He has more than 28 years of experience in auditing, fraud investigation, taxation, liquidation, corporate secretarial services and financial planning.

Lecturing Experience

Mr Goh is widely regarded as a pioneer lecturer of SAA-GE, the training division of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS). It is heartwarming to take note that many of his students are now lecturers in the ACCA, degree and professional programmes as well as public accountants.

He was an adjunct senior fellow with the National University of Singapore for more than 10 years. He has also been the examiner and moderator for various degree programmes. He has been an invited lecturer to the ACCA (Malaysia Division) for ACCA revision courses and has been lecturing on the ACCA programme since 1985.

He has taught numerous subjects for institutions such as the National University of Singapore, Singapore Institute of Management, Singapore Association of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators; and the ICPAS. He has also been a trainer for ICPAS on all three levels of the Structured Practical Audit Training Programmes which provides training for personnel of audit firms and other government and regulatory authorities.

Programmes taught include ACCA, Certified Accounting Technicians, Association of Accounting Technicians, Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance, Diploma in Management Studies (SIM University), Graduate Diploma in Financial Management (SIM University), Certificate and Diploma in Banking (Institute of Banking and Finance), Criminal Law (Singapore Police Force), various Australian degree units and the University of London degree units.

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Educational Qualification

Mrs Irene Tay graduated with a Master degree of Business Administration from Victoria University of Technology, Australia and a Bachelor of Arts & Social Science degree from the University of Singapore. She is a member of Singapore Human Resource Institute, Singapore Training & Development Association and Chartered Institute of Personnel Management & Development, UK

Professional Experience

As an Associate Consultant, Irene brings along her 20 years of experience with versatility and tenure in people management. She has facilitated human resources to meet organisations?vision and mission.

She has contributed to the organizations that she worked with to win the Asian Institute of Management Award for People and Development, Outstanding Newcomer Quality Organisation Award as well as the Singapore Quality Class status.

Lecturing Experience

Irene specializes in teaching the subject of human resource management, as well as organizational theory and business management from the diploma to master level at various institutions, polytechnics and universities.

She has been involved in lectures with local students and foreign students as well as matured adult learners.

The key educational institutions which Irene has been participating are: Singapore Management University, Singapore Human Resource Institute, SIM University, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Nanyang Polytechnic.

Other institutions like University of Leicester, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Northumbria University, Curtin University of Technology. Irene's training and lectures have been conducted in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, Hong Kong and China. She has been invited Guest Speaker in various seminars as well as on radio and television from topics relating to training methodologies to customer service management.

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Lim Tian Khoon    B.Math (Hons), PhD

Educational Qualification

Dr Lim graduated with PhD in pure mathematics from the University of Western Australia. His research interests lie mainly in the area of algebraic graph theory and he has published papers on the topic at various international journals.

Professional Experience

Dr Lim worked as a financial analyst and later, a fund manager. He is experienced in various aspects of fundamental analysis and equity valuations. He has written research articles and reports on companies under his portfolio as well as on market outlook and industry analysis.

Dr Lim has also provided his views on sector outlook (commodity supply chain sector) through quarterly seminars and talks. He was also invited for interviews in the Bulls & Bear segment (a program run by ChannelNews Asia) to speak on companies under his coverage.

Lecturing Experience

Prior to entering the financial industry, Dr Lim was a full-time lecturer for almost 3yrs at a local polytechnic, teaching engineering mathematics. He was also an expert mentor for the gifted programme at Rosyth Primary School.

While doing his graduate studies in Australia, Tian Khoon was a tutor cum residential adviser at Currie Hall, a residential college of the University of Western Australia. He was also a tutor for first year mathematics students at the University of Newcastle, NSW while doing his honours degree.

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Michael Lim    Bsc(Hons) in computing, MSBus(IT)

Educational Qualification

Mr. Lim graduated with a Master Degree in Information Technology from Curtin University (Australia), a Graduate Diploma in Management of Information Systems (Honors) from the Institute of Data Processing Management, UK (Validated by City University, London) and, a Bachelor’s Degree (Hons) in Computing from University of Greenwich (UK).

Professional Experience

Mr Lim is a Certified Reliability Engineer from the Singapore Quality Institute. He has 13 years of experience in defining the equations to mature new Storage Device Technology. He designs, develops and manages the reliability test activities from early product development to product maturity.

Lecturing Experience

Mr Lim has over 10 years Information Technology lecturing experience behind him. He was a full time senior lecturer at an institution teaching diploma to degree IT units from Java Technology and Computing, Object-Oriented Computing in C++, Database Design & Development, Logic Design, Data Communication & Computer Architecture, software Engineering to Project. Note that Mr Lim also has experience teaching the UOL programme. Mr Lim passion for teaching can be shown in the awards and recognitions he has won over his 8 years of lecturing experience such as the Best subject leader for Advanced Programming, Best subject leader for Object-oriented Programming and Best Lecturer Award.

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Educational Qualification

Mr. Alan Ng has a Master degree in Finance from the National University of Ireland. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants UK and a Certified Public Accountant of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS).

Professional Experience

Mr. Alan Ng brings with him more than ten years of experience in the accounting industry. His passion for teaching has turned him into a very dedicated full time accounting lecturer because his motor is: "Learning is opportunities and Teaching is rewarding career."

Lecturing Experience

Mr. Alan Ng has more than ten years of lecturing experience.

He has taught various accounting and finance subjects in the diploma and degree level. Programmes taught include the ICPAS Diploma in Professional Accounting, LCCI Diploma in Accounting, SIM University Degree and the University of London Degree.

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Educational Qualification

Mr Ong graduated with a BBA (Hons) from NUS in 2003 and also completed the CFA program in 2005. In 2006, Mr Ong went to The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, graduating with an MBA with Highest Distinction (Palmer Scholar).

Professional Experience

Mr Ong? professional experience is in banking and finance, particularly in the area of real estate financing and acquisitions. He previously worked for the Singapore government as well as in the banking industry with a leading commercial bank and a global US investment bank. Besides banking and finance, Mr Ong? professional interests also include business strategy for SMEs and family businesses. He is the award winner of the US-based Family Business Magazine with his article on the role of non-family executives in family businesses.

Lecturing Experience

Mr Ong previously taught financial accounting as a teaching associate at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Currently, he teaches Principles of Banking and Finance at Singapore Accountancy Academy to undergraduates reading bachelor degrees from University of London. He is also engaged by SIM University and Amity Business School to lecture corporate finance and managerial finance.

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Educational Qualification

Mr Wong graduated in 1980 from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland with First Class Honours in Production Management and Manufacturing Technology. In 1983, he earned a MBA from the University of Strathclyde Business School, made possible with a scholarship awarded by the Public Service Commission under the UNDP-ILO sponsorship programme. He is also a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. In June 2003, he attended the Stanford Executive Program. In Year 2003, was presented with the “Strathclyder of the Year” Award. This award is given out annually to a member of the Strathclyde community who has made an outstanding contribution to the University or society and consequently has enhanced the University’s reputation.

Professional Experience

Mr Wong was the Chief Operating Officer of the NTUC Healthcare Cooperative Ltd from 2004 to 2008. Up till the end of 2003, he held the appointment of Director, NTUC-Administration and Research Unit and was on secondment to the NTUC Dental Care Cooperative Society, Limited as its General Manager and concurrently the Executive Secretary to the INCOME Development Organization. Prior to this appointment, he was the Director of Skills Development in National Trades Union Congress. He began his career in the NTUC in 1990 when he was deputed to the NTUC to start up the Singapore Institute of Labour Studies, now known as the Ong Teng Cheong Leadership Development Institute.

Mr Wong has been deputed on numerous occasions by the Singapore Government, Asian Productivity Organization and the International Labour Office to provide technical expert services to countries in the Republic of Ghana, Republic of China, India, Thailand, Philippines, Pakistan and Western Australia. Most of these pertained to matters related to labour management relations, trade unionism, organizational change and productivity improvements.

Mr Wong served as a member on the Sub-committee on Manpower in the Committee for Singapore’s Competitiveness as well as the Manpower 21 committee. He has also served as Director in the Productivity and Standards Board, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore Quality Institute and as an Alternate Director to the National Productivity Council. He also represented the labour movement in numerous committees pertaining to workers’ education and training such as the Chinese Development Assistance Council, Yayasan Mendaki, Singapore Indians Development Agency, Singapore Confederation of Industries and the Institute for Technical Education

Lecturing Experience

He is currently a Visiting Lecturer to the Strathclyde University Graduate School of Business, an Associate Faculty of UniSIM and Curtin University of Technology. His academic interests are in the area of strategic management and employment relations.

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Educational Qualification

Pooveneswary NP graduated with a BSc (Maths and Computer Science) and a MBA, from NUS.

Lecturing Experience

Pooveneswary NP has had extensive experience teaching Mathematics and Statistics at the diploma and degree level. She teaches Engineering Mathematics at Singapore Polytechnic.

Her experience includes teaching Mathematics, Computing Mathematics, Operational Research and Statistics to undergraduates reading for degrees from University of Bradford, University of Wales and University of London. Her experience also involves teaching PhD students (doing their thesis in social science) how to analyse data using software packages like SPSS.

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Educational Qualification

Mr Quek graduated with a Bachelor? Degree in Business Studies (Marketing) from Nanyang Technological University. He also holds a Master of Science (Real Estate) from the National University of Singapore

Professional Experience

Mr Quek brings with him over 11 years of industry experience and partakes in the rollout and marketing of various programmes and initiatives for his company.

Lecturing Experience

As an in-house trainer, Mr Quek has conducted many sessions of trainings to his peers. He specializes in teaching principles of marketing for the UOL programme.

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Educational Qualification

Mr Tan graduated from the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore in 1989. He is a member of the Singapore Academy of Law and a Family Court mediator with Eagles Mediation. He is also an advisor to the Association of Legal Executives in Singapore.

Professional Experience

Mr Tan is currently a practising lawyer with the law firm of Peng Kwee & Company, in Singapore. He has been an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore for more than 10 years and in practice for more than 10 years. He has recently also became a Commissioner for Oaths. He has diverse exposure in various aspects of legal work, both civil and criminal. He is also the managing consultant of Bird's Consultancy and a director with Manth Consultancy Pte Ltd. He had also served as a regular officer at the Singapore Police Force.

Lecturing Experience

Mr Tan has taught as a full time lecturer in the then Diploma in Legal Studies at Temasek Polytechnic for two years and a part-time lecturer on several of the part-time Diplomas and Specialist Diplomas. He conducted lectures in Commercial Law with the Singapore Human Resource Institute as well as criminal law in the Senior Officer's Basic Course at the Police Academy. He has also conducted seminars with Multi-national Corporations as well as continuing professional education seminars with the Singapore Accountancy Academy and the Singapore Human Resource Institute. Amongst other institutions, he has lectured in are the Singapore Hotel Association Training and Education Centre (SHATEC) and the Commercial Affairs Department. Mr Tan has also participated at various forums, both as a speaker and a panellist.

Mr Tan is experienced in conducting training programmes to a wide range of audiences, from students with no work experience to professionals from the industries. He has also conducted seminars in English, Mandarin and Hokkien. His wide experience ensures that participants are given a good understanding of the fundamentals of law without sacrificing the practical aspects of law in the light of the environment the law operates in. He also leverages on technology to facilitate his lectures where such is applicable. Participants have always found his approach to various topics both refreshing and enlightening, sometimes even entertaining.

Mr Tan is the author of the Paper 2.2 (SGP) Corporate and Business Law Study Manual and Revision Kit, published by SAA-GE.

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Tay Eng Huat     BAcc, MScFM, CPA Singapore

Educational Qualification

Mr Tay graduated from the Faculty of Accountancy & Business of the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore in 1993. He is a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore since 1997. He is also a member of the Singapore Association of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (SAICSA). Mr Tay obtained his Master of Science in Financial Management from University of London.

Professional Experience

Mr Tay is currently the managing director of corporate advisory firm, NFG Capital Partners. He is a financier to many local and overseas companies in fundraising and advice them corporate financial engineering. He has been a banker in the financial industry for more than 13 years and has diverse exposure in various aspects of banking and corporate finance works.

Lecturing Experience

Mr Tay is a lecturer with the Singapore Association of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators (SAICSA) in their degree certification professional programme, lecturing on the subject of Corporate Financial Management and Business Accounting. He also teaches the subject of Capital Market at a local University.

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Educational Qualification

Mr Teo graduated with a Master degree in Economics from the National University of Singapore. He is also a member of the Economics Society of Singapore and his research interest lies on the feasibility of monetary integration for East Asia countries.

Professional Experience

Mr Teo professional experience is in post banking mergers consolidation. Interestingly, he has also taken part in the research of our country? gifted education programme at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University and is now deeply entrenched in the educational industry.

Lecturing Experience

Mr Teo is the examiner for two universities?subjects. He has also conducted economics seminars to professionals outside the financial industry.

He has taught economics subjects in the diploma and degree level. Programmes taught include the ICPAS Diploma in Professional Accounting, SIM University Diploma in Management Studies, Curtin University of Technology, University of Queensland and the University of London Degrees.

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