Co-founder & Board of Directors
Dr. Goh Wei-Leong
Co-Founder & Advisor
Dr. Goh Wei-Leong
Co-Founder & Advisor
Wei-Leong’s life mission is to be a Catalyst Bringing Life. He has a keen passion for social justice and investing in the younger generation by engaging with them.
A coffee lover, Wei-Leong is always exploring new cafes with legit coffee to get connected. His passion to serve the vulnerable led him towards co-founding HealthServe (an NGO serving foreign workers) and was awarded Singaporean of the Year 2017 for his pivotal work amongst the low-wage migrant communities.
Wei-Leong currently serves as a family physician at his clinic in a low-income neighbourhood and sits on the boards of National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre (NVPC) in Singapore and other international NGOs.
Chan Chia Lin
Chairman
Chan Chia Lin
Chairman
Chia Lin is director of investment holding company Lam Soon Cannery Private Limited. Chia Lin is also a Board director of Mapletree Industrial Trust Management Limited. She was previously the Chief Investment Officer of Fullerton Fund Management Company and Managing Director and Head of Currency and Strategy at Temasek Holdings. Prior to joining the Temasek Group, Chia Lin had also worked at ABN AMRO Bank and the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Chia Lin is active in the social service sector. She is Chairman of migrant worker charity HealthServe and a board member of mental health charity Resilience Collective and the NUS Mind Science Centre. She also serves on the boards of several charitable foundations. She was Vice President of the National Council of Social Service.
Chia Lin has a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University.
Chia Lin is married, with a son. She loves eating and cooking, appreciates Chinese tea and indulges in collecting old Indonesian textiles.
Dr. Jeremy Lim Fung Yen
Vice Chairman
Dr. Jeremy Lim Fung Yen
Vice Chairman
Assoc Prof Jeremy Lim (Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore) leads the initiatives in health systems strengthening, financing and universal health coverage. He brings diverse and unique perspectives having spent substantial time in public and private healthcare across Asia as well as in policy advisory with Singapore’s Ministry of Health, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and the World Health Organisation. Jeremy is also co-founder and CEO of AMILI, the region’s first precision gut microbiome start-up.
Outside academia, Jeremy serves on the boards of various for-profit and not-for-profit organisations in different aspects of healthcare including end-of-life care and digital health interventions. He trained in surgery and public health, attaining post-graduate qualifications in both the UK and US.
Jeremy is married to a fellow doctor, and they have 3 children. He enjoys long walks, good food and discovering new cities.
Choy Peng Wah
Director, Fundraising and Engagement Committee Chairman
Choy Peng Wah
Director, Fundraising and Engagement Committee Chairman
Peng Wah’s 38-year career in Finance spans across Singapore, New York and Hong Kong with Citibank, Deutsche Asset Management, Prudential Asset Management, Fullerton Fund Management and Harvest Global Investments. With a Master’s in Business Administration from McGill University, Peng has 38 years of sales and client facing in the Finance industry.
Peng Wah is married with 2 children.
Eugene Seow
Director
Eugene Seow
Director
Eugene is the Founding Lead of E3TWENTY, an Organisational Leadership Coaching Collaborative. He believes that one of the greatest impact we can make on the future is to invest generously in Next Generation Leadership. These values were shaped and grounded through his many years of engagement in the social service sector both locally and internationally.
Eugene was a practicing architect for ten years, before heeding his life’s call to be an “architect of lives”. In 1992 he helped set up TOUCH Community Services and served as its first Executive Director from 1992 – 2016. Following which he took up appointment as CEO TOUCH International from 2016-2020.
He contributes his time and resources to a wide range of Non-Profit Boards including The National Council of Social Services, The Majurity Trust and Transformation Alliance. He also serves as Board Advisor to The National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre and Radion International.
In recognition of his efforts in the community, he was conferred the Public Service Medal (PBM) National Day Awards 2005 and the Public Service Star (BBM) National Day Awards 2020.
Eugene and his wife Julie have 3 adult children, 2 daughters-in-law and 4 grandchildren.
Gail Lien
Director, Services Committee Chairman
Gail Lien
Director, Services Committee Chairman
Gail Lien has been active in the philanthropic and social sector for about 20 years. She is a governor of the Lien Foundation and a board member of Healthserve and Rainbow Centre. She previously served on the fund-raising committees of Dover Park Hospice and Vision Fund, the micro finance arm of World Vision Singapore.
Gail began her career as an investment analyst in Hong Kong, motherhood led her to give up full time work in favour of raising a family. Gail is a graduate from the London School of Economics and has post graduate qualifications in Education, Theology and Natural Medicine. More recently, she completed an executive programme on Women’s Leadership Development with the Oxford Said Business School. Gail is married, with three daughters. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, playing tennis and a good word game.
Serene Chee
Director, Finance Committee Chairman
Serene Chee
Director, Finance Committee Chairman
Serene has spent more than 20 years of her professional career in the Finance Industry – JP Morgan, ABN Amro, Coutts, Director at Credit Suisse and Senior Director with J. Safra Sarasin. She worked in the Treasury departments as well as the Wealth Management divisions of these banking institutions before moving on to a private fund management company.
She worships at a Methodist Church where she has helmed various roles as Treasurer, Finance Chairperson, Associate Lay Leader and Chairperson of the Local Church Executive Board. A graduate at the School of Leadership of Tung Ling Bible School, she is currently working towards a Masters in Theology. Her mission is to integrate vocation with ministry and social justice seamlessly.
She is adventurous and an avid traveller. A former school athlete, she still swims, cycles, runs, practices karate and takes part in various races. This she says, is to counter her penchant for cooking and good food.
Serene is married. The couple go on various mission trips together.
Susan Kong Yim Pui
Director, Audit Committee Chairman
Susan Kong Yim Pui
Director, Audit Committee Chairman
Susan is a practicing lawyer with more than 30 years and is recognized as a leading practitioner in the areas of Banking and Finance, Real Estate, Mergers and Acquisitions and Capital Markets by Chambers Global, IFLR 1000, AsiaLaw and Euromoney Legal Group Guide. She is currently the Managing Partner of Q.E.D. Law Corporation, a boutique law practice, which she co-founded in 2015.
On the corporate experience front, Susan has served as independent director in many public and private companies across sectors and in different jurisdictions, including banking, education and real estate and professional services. She is currently an independent director of Comfort Del Gro Limited and a non-executive director of SBS Transit Ltd.
On the non-profit front, Susan has volunteered with HealthServe periodically since 2014 and joined the Board in 2017. She was also the Chairman of the Board of STPI, an art institution under MCCY until 30 June 2024.
Dr. Tan Thong Kwan Benjamin
Director
Dr. Tan Thong Kwan Benjamin
Director
A/Prof. Benjamin is a Dental Specialist in Periodontics with over 27 years of clinical experience and adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in Periodontics and Dental Implantology.
He was previously Chairperson of the Dental Specialist Accreditation Committee in Periodontology (2012-2017), the examination board that conducts the exit examinations of candidates to qualify as a Specialist Periodontist in Singapore; and member of the Dental Specialist Accreditation Board of Singapore, which oversees the training and accreditation of all dental specialists in Singapore (2017- 2022).
He has served as Councillor of the Asian-Pacific Society of Periodontology (2014-2017); Chairperson of the Chapter of Periodontists, College of Dental Surgeons, Academy of Medicine Singapore (2009-2013); as well as President of the Society of Periodontology Singapore (2006 and 2007).
Benjamin has volunteered with the Medical Services sub-committee of HealthServe since 2018. He is presently also Chairman of Epworth Community Services.
Benjamin has been involved with Youth Ministry at church since 2003. In his free time, he enjoys a chill social game of tennis, squash or golf. He and his wife Michelle have 3 daughters.