Tan Soo Nan

Biography: Tan Soo Nan, Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Pools (Private) Limited.

Mr Tan Soo Nan is the Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Pools (Private) Limited, a subsidiary of the Singapore Totalisator Board. Singapore Pools was incorporated by the Singapore Government to provide a legal avenue for betting. Operation surpluses from Singapore Pools are channelled towards worthy causes that serve the needs of the community. Through its comprehensive community funding programme, Singapore Pools have contributed significantly to community welfare.

Before joining Singapore Pools on 1 August 2002, Mr Tan was the Chief Executive Officer of Temasek Capital (Private) Limited looking after all direct investments, both locally and overseas for Temasek Holdings, the investment holding arm of the Singapore Government.

Prior to the period at Temasek Capital (from June 2000 to July 2002), Mr Tan was the Senior Managing Director of DBS Bank. In this role he was overseeing the Institutional Banking, Individual Banking, Enterprise Banking and the Private Client Group businesses of DBS Bank. He was also a member of the Bank’s Policy Committee, which was the Bank’s most senior communications and decision-making forum. In his 29 years with DBS Bank, his career spanned the entire spectrum of commercial banking, investment banking, asset management and venture capital.

He was on the board of many companies including DBS subsidiaries and associated financial companies in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. Besides his directorships, he had over the years served on many committees including committees of the Stock Exchange of Singapore (now known as Singapore Exchange Ltd), Public Sector Divestment Committee and Legal Services Review Committee.

Mr Tan is presently a trustee of the Singapore Totalisator Board SCO Trust and is a member of the Income Tax Board of Review and Goods and Services Tax Board of Review. He also sits on the board of several private and public listed companies.

Mr Tan graduated from The University of Singapore with Degree of Bachelor of Business Administration with Honours (Second Class Honours, Upper Division) in 1971 and became an Associate of The Chartered Institute of Bankers in 1976. He completed the Harvard Business School’s Program for Management Development in 1982. Mr Tan is married and has two children.