Alpina Holdings Limited is led by a management team which is experienced in our industry. The founders of our Group, our Executive Chairman and CEO, Mr. Low Siong Yong, and our Executive Director, Mr. Tai Yoon On, each has over 25 years of experience in our business activites.
Over the years, under the leadership of Mr. Low and Mr. Tai, Alpina Holdings Limited has grown to having over 400 employees.
Executive Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Low Siong Yong is our Executive Chairman and CEO and was appointed to our Board on 8 November 2021. He is primarily responsible for the overall management and formulation of business strategies of our Group.
Mr. Low has over 25 years of experience in the building engineering and maintenance services industry in Singapore, specialising in providing IBS, M&E works and A&A works.
Mr. Low completed his secondary school education in Malaysia in 1991. In July 1995, Mr. Low obtained a module certificate in M3 industrial installation (National Technical Certificate Grade 3 in Electrical Installation and Servicing) from the Institute of Technical Education in Singapore. In October 1998, Mr. Low obtained a Skills Evaluation Certificate in Electrical Wiring Installation from the Construction Industry Development Board in Singapore, and he obtained a Building Construction Supervisors Safety Course Certificate from the Ministry of Manpower in 2004.
Executive Director
Mr. Tai Yoon On is our Executive Director and was appointed to our Board on 8 November 2021. He is responsible for the management and supervision of our Group.
Mr. Tai has over 25 years of experience in the building engineering and maintenance services industry in Singapore, specialising in providing IBS, M&E works and A&A works.
Mr. Tai completed his secondary school education in Malaysia in 1994. In October 1998, Mr. Tai obtained a Skills Evaluation Certificate in Electrical Wiring Installation from the Construction Industry Development Board in Singapore.
Non-Executive,
Lead Independent Director
Mr. Ong Beng Chye is our NonExecutive Lead Independent Director, and was appointed to our Board on 30 December 2021.
Mr. Ong has more than 27 years of experience in areas such as accounting, auditing, public listings, due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, and business advisory. He is currently the director of Appleton Global Private Limited (a business management and consultancy services firm) and the independent non-executive chairman of Hafary Holdings Limited and ES Group (Holdings) Ltd. He is also an independent director of other listed companies in Singapore, and shareholder and director of several private companies.
Mr. Ong is a fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, a Chartered Financial Analyst conferred by The Institute of Chartered Financial Analyst and a non-practising Chartered Accountant (Singapore). He obtained a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from City, University of London in 1990.
Non-Executive,
Independent Director
Mr. Chan Jer Hiang is our Non-Executive Independent Director and was appointed to our Board on 30 December 2021.
Mr. Chan has been working in various law firms since 1985 and is currently the partner of a law firm, Chan Jer Hiang & Co, since 1989. Mr. Chan was employed as a legal assistant in the litigation department of Lim & Lim, Tang & Co, and Wong & Partners between 1985 to 1986, assisting with matters involving family, insolvency, personal injury, property damage and probate and succession planning. During his time as a salaried partner in Rayney Wong & Company from 1987 to June 1989, Mr. Chan handled conveyancing and corporate matters, on top of the type of matters he had previously assisted with as a legal assistant. Presently, in Chan Jer Hiang & Co, Mr. Chan acts as a legal advisor on the foregoing matters as well as building and construction issues.
Mr. Chan graduated from National University of Singapore in 1984 with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and has an existing practising certificate issued by the Supreme Court of Singapore. He currently has an active membership with the Law Society of Singapore and Singapore Academy of Law. In addition, Mr. Chan is currently appointed as a Commissioner for Oaths and Notary Public under the Singapore Academy of Law.
Non-Executive,
Independent Director
Mr. Marcus Woon is our Non-Executive Independent Director and was appointed to our Board on 30 December 2021.
Mr. Woon commenced his career in December 1995 as a technical assistant at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd and led a team of manufacturing operators in meeting the production volume targets. Thereafter, between July 1999 and September 2009, Mr. Woon took on various roles involving auditing, accounting and/or managing financial matters of companies.
In October 2009, Mr. Woon took on the role of financial controller in Dynamic Colours Limited, a company listed on the Main Board of the SGX-ST, where he remained until September 2011.
Since October 2011, Mr. Woon has been the financial controller and director of Eaton Industries Pte. Ltd., responsible for managing the company’s financial matters, annual statutory accounts, and compliances. Eaton Industries Pte. Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a multinational company in the United States of America and is in the business of manufacturing electrical machinery, apparatus, appliances and other supplies.
Mr. Woon obtained a Third Level Group Diploma in Accounting from London Chamber of Commerce & Industry in 1999. He became a member in 2003, and a fellow in 2008, of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
Ms. Gan Wan Ni joined our Group as Chief Financial Officer in February 2021. She is responsible for our Group’s finance and management reporting, accounting, and taxation matters, and oversees the operations of the finance team of our Group. Ms. Gan has more than 10 years of experience in auditing, accounting and finance.
Ms. Gan obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Accounting and Finance) from Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom in 2011 and an Advanced Diploma in Commerce (Financial Accounting) from Tunku Abdul Rahman College in Malaysia in 2011. Ms. Gan has been a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants since March 2015 and a fellow since March 2020, and a qualified Chartered Accountant of Singapore, since June 2016, of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.
Mr. Low Choo Khee joined our Group as Project Director in April 2019. He is in charge of our Group’s engineering department, leading a team of more than 200 staff. His scope of work includes performing cost planning, executing, managing and monitoring the capital and operation cash flows, and assisting with preparation of tender documents. Besides assisting with the talent acquisition department to ensure that the engineering staff undergo proper and continuous training and keep up-to-date with the current industrial requirements, Mr. Low also provides mentorship to potential staff talents.
From June 2002 to August 2008, Mr. Low was employed by the Republic of Singapore Air Force as an aircraft maintenance engineer. From October 2008, he took on the position as a material coordinator at aerospace firm ST Aviation Services Co Pte Ltd, where his scope of work included purchasing parts and raw materials and coordinating with relevant parties on such materials requested.
From September 2009, Mr. Low worked in SP Group, a utilities services provider, as a technical officer and subsequently as a senior engineer, and was responsible for, among others, managing properties and facilities in the grid network, utility building services, and maintenance thereof. He was also involved in preparing various tender documents, reviewing M&E services designs, and project management including collaborating with company stakeholders, tenants, consultants, contractors and government authorities on various projects.
Mr. Low graduated from Nanyang Polytechnic in 2000 with a Diploma in Mechatronics Engineering and graduated from Nanyang Technology University in Singapore in 2014 with a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering).
Mr. Zhang is the Contract Director of our Group, and is responsible for tendering, contracts management and business development.
Mr. Zhang commenced his career as a Tender Executive in Xi’an XD Switchgear Electric Co Ltd in the PRC, and was responsible for tendering for various overseas projects. In August 2012, Mr. Zhang joined Nanyang Language & Business School as an Operations Manager, and subsequently assumed the role of a Sales Executive in SVS Valves Pte Ltd in November 2012, where he was involved in preparing and tracking quotations, purchase orders and delivery orders. In February 2013, he worked as a Quantity Surveyor in a company which undertook civil construction projects, before joining our Group as a Quantity Surveyor in June 2013. In Digo Corporation, he was subsequently promoted to Contract Manager in March 2016 and further promoted to Contract Director in January 2019.
Mr. Zhang graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the Xi’an University of Architecture & Technology in 2010. He obtained a Specialist Diploma in Building Cost Management from the BCA in 2015, and a Certificate in Contact Administration from the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers in 2016. In 2019, he obtained a Certificate in Electrical and Energy Management from the BCA.