Singapore - StarHub unveiled changes to his core leadership team, announcing the appointments of the new StarHub chief financial officer, chief marketing officer, as well as the newly created role of chief strategic partnerships officer.
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These appointments will be filled respectively by Dennis Chia, Howie Lau and Jeannie Ong. The new appointments will be effective from July 8, 2015.
Dennis Chia is currently the Senior Vice President and CFO of STATS ChipPAC (Worldwide), a provider of advanced semiconductor packaging and test services.
Prior to joining STATS ChipPAC, Mr. Chia was Vice President of Finance, Asia Pacific Operations in the NYSE Fortune 500 company, Lear Corporation, where he oversaw 26 manufacturing and administrative locations across Asia and 250 regional finance staff.
In the span of his career, Mr. Chia also led Frontline Technologies Corporation and Behringer Corporation to successful listings on the Singapore Exchange.
Over and above Marketing functions, Howie Lau will also oversee StarHub’s Entertainment & SmartLife and Media Business Unit divisions which respectively comprise StarHub’s Pay TV and Broadband Lines of Business, and its Content and Local Production teams.
StarHub’s Mobility business will continue to be under the charge of its Chief Commercial Officer, Kevin Lim, who also oversees all customer touch points.
Mr. Lau is currently the Vice President, Corporate Development of Lenovo's Worldwide Finance Organisation, where he oversees Lenovo's end-to-end Post Merger Management and related Merger & Acquisition matters.
Previously, he was Lenovo’s Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Emerging Markets Group, and was responsible for the strategy and execution of marketing and communications in China, Eastern Europe, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Latin America, Middle East, Russia, Taiwan and ASEAN markets.
Mr. Lau is also President of Singapore Computer Society’s Executive Council, and is on the management board for NUS Institute of System Science and advisory committees for Nanyang Polytechnic School of IT and Anderson Junior College.
Jeannie Ong is currently the CMO of StarHub. Under her leadership, StarHub was named Brand of the Year and Jeannie was named Client of the Year (Brand Steward) at the prestigious Hall of Fame Awards 2014.
She and her team also secured Gold for Marketing Campaign of the Year – Internet/Telecom at the International Business Awards 2014 and Best Partnership in Loyalty Programme at the Loyalty & Engagement Awards 2014. ■