JASMMINE Wong, the chief executive officer of Inchcape Greater China and Singapore, will be leaving the company after a six-year stint.

Wong, 47, announced her departure from the company on Tuesday (Jul 4). According to people familiar with the matter, she will be taking on a new role with global responsibilities at a major multinational corporation.

A direct replacement for Wong has not been named yet. Ng Khee Siong, Inchcape’s aftersales director for Greater China and Singapore, will be the interim managing director for Singapore.

Wong was appointed as Inchcape Singapore’s first female managing director in July 2017, after a role at Nestle.

In 2019, she was appointed as chief executive of Inchcape Greater China and Singapore. Its parent company is London Stock Exchange listed Inchcape.

In that role, she also continued to head Inchcape’s motor business in Singapore as managing director, which included Borneo Motors (distributor and dealer for Hino, Lexus and Toyota) and Champion Motors (distributor and dealer for Suzuki), and the establishment of Inchcape Singapore’s pre-owned car business in 2021.

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Under her leadership, Borneo Motors took Toyota’s Triple Crown award for top sales in passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles, and taxis in Singapore from 2018 to 2022.

Outside her role as chief executive, she is also a board member of the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore, a member of the board of directors of Yellow Ribbon Singapore, and an independent non-executive director of Trust Bank Singapore.