New ACS BOG head is Chairman of Parkway Holdings

THE newly-appointed Chairman of the ACS Board of Governors, Mr Richard Seow, is the Chairman of Singapore Exchange-listed Parkway Holdings Ltd, a leader in private Asian healthcare services.

Born in Singapore in 1962, he received his early education at Anglo-Chinese Junior School, Anglo-Chinese Secondary School and Anglo-Chinese Junior College.

A fourth-generation ACSian, he is the great-grandson of the late Mr Seow Poh Leng, who is well remembered as the ACS Old Boy who, in 1936, instituted the medal awarded to the top ACS boy at the Senior Cambridge/GCE “O” Level Examinations.   

The younger Mr Seow has two sons in ACS – an elder son in ACS (I) and a younger one in ACS (Barker Road), making them fifth-generation ACSians.

Prior to his involvement with Parkway, he worked in investment banking for 16 years. He headed the South East Asian Investment Banking franchise for Citigroup based in Singapore where he also established the firm’s Asian Technology Investment Banking Group.

Before joining Citigroup, from 1994 to 1999, he was with Goldman Sachs where he was Chief Operation Officer for Asian Investment Banking and Head of Investment Banking Services for Singapore and Malaysia. From 1992 to 1994, he was based in Hong Kong working in J. P. Morgan’s Financial Advisory Mergers & Acquisitions Group. From 1988 to 1992, he was with Security Pacific Bank with postings in Los Angeles and Hong Kong.

Mr Seow received his commission from the Singapore Armed Forces in 1984, where he was a Sword of Honour winner. He completed his undergraduate education with a BS Economics from the University of Oregon and received his MBA from the University of Southern California.

He and his wife Jacqueline have a daughter and three sons. He is currently worshipping at the ACS (International) Preaching Point.    

MR RICHARD SEOW:

A fourth-generation ACSian.