SIM PL Board of Directors

Mr Seah Chin Siong

Ex- Officio, SIM Governing Council

Mr Seah Chin Siong is currently the President & Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Institute of Management Group Ltd.

Prior to this, Mr Seah was the Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Pools (Pte) Ltd. He led the organisation as a trusted and responsible gaming operator in Singapore. In addition, he led the organisation in embarking on significant efforts to transform it into a modern and efficient entity. These included making Singapore Pools an online operator under the Remote Gambling Act, and launching Singapore Pools’ digital iShine Cloud in support of all charities and social enterprises in Singapore.

Mr Seah was also the founding Chief Executive Officer of IDA International, a subsidiary of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). He was responsible for crystallising and executing IDA International’s mission and vision to help public agencies deliver socio-economic outcomes enabled through public service infocomm.

In his earlier years, Mr Seah was the Managing Director of Accenture’s Public Service Operating Group for Asia-Pacific and the Country Managing Director of Accenture Singapore.

Professor Wei Kwok Kee

Provost

Professor Wei Kwok Kee is Provost at Singapore Institute of Management. As Provost, he is responsible for enhancing the intellectual climate, strengthening instruction and curriculum, fostering curricular innovation, recruiting and mentoring faculty at SIM.

Prior to his current appointment, Prof Wei was the Founding Dean (2016 – 2020) of the School of Continuing and Lifelong Education (SCALE) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He was Dean of the College of Business (2007 – 2012) and Head of the Department of Information Systems (2002 – 2007) at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU). He was the Founding Head of the Department of Information Systems (1998 – 2002) at NUS.

During his tenure as Business School Dean in CityU, its international UTD business school research ranking improved by almost 30 places, from 98 to 63; its success with the Hong Kong Government’s research grant awards doubled; SSCI/SCI publications have increased by 25%; and undergraduate admissions scores have climbed by 5%.

As Head of two major IS Departments in Asia (NUS and CityU) in the past decade, Prof Wei has developed a strong research culture and initiated major research efforts that resulted in both Departments being placed among the top 15 IS departments worldwide. He has also introduced major curriculum reforms that aligned the degree programmes in both Departments to AIS guidelines, thereby raising the international value of these programmes.

Professor Wei is a Fellow of the Association of Information Systems (AIS) and was President of that Association in 2003/4. He was awarded the AIS LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in Information Systems in 2015.

Professor Wei has served as Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly and Associate Editor of Information Systems Research. He has also played major roles in ICIS and PACIS. As an excellent educator, his doctoral students have attained placements in good universities worldwide. Prof Wei has published more than 200 journal and conference papers. Based on Scopus, his works have been cited over 8900 times and his h-index is 43 (as at 2 Aug 2019).

Dr Timothy Chan

Vice Provost

Dr Timothy Chan holds the appointment of Vice Provost at the Singapore Institute of Management and oversees all academic services.

Dr Chan has over 35 years of working experience in the education field. Dr Chan has taught IT and Accounting modules in Singapore Polytechnic, UniSIM (renamed as Singapore University of Social Sciences), RMIT University, and the University of London.  As a researcher, he has completed research projects funded by the European Union and China.  As an advisor, external assessor and consultant, he has provided services to institutes of higher learning in Singapore (Institute of Technical Education), Hong Kong (City University), and the United Kingdom (Middlesex University, Nottingham Trent University, Oxford Brookes University and University of Wales).  He is also the author of an Accounting textbook.

Dr Chan is active in the professional and youth communities.  He has served as an Executive Council member of the Singapore Computer Society and chaired the SCS Professional Development Committee (2009-2019).  He is a member of the Education Committee of CPA Australia (Singapore) and a member of the Advisory Committee of Youth Corps Singapore.

Before he joined SIM, Dr Chan held the appointments of Director, School of Digital Media and Infocomm Technology, and Director, School of Business, at Singapore Polytechnic.

Dr Chan holds a PhD in Higher Education from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.  He is also a fellow of Singapore Computer Society and CPA Australia.