Straits Trading Company strives to unlock value, boost returns
Executive chairman Chew Gek Khim believes the company is fairly well-cushioned amid geopolitical tensions and threat of a global recession
RADIATING pragmatism from every pore, Chew Gek Khim is down to earth, thanks in part to her late maternal grandfather, pioneer banker and philanthropist Tan Chin Tuan.
"I was brought up to be a very practical person," the petite executive chairman of The Straits Trading Company Ltd - one of Singapore's oldest firms established in the 1880s - said with a laugh.
In the late 1980s, after three years with law firm Drew & Napier, the National University of Singapore law graduate joined family investment vehicle Tecity Group, founded by her grandfather. From him, Ms Chew gleaned many valuable life lessons.
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