SINGAPORE - Mr Ang Wei Neng, the chief executive of ComfortDelGro's taxi business, has resigned to pursue another career path after more than four years in the role.
His last day will be April 1 and he will be replaced by Mr Jackson Chia, 52, who is currently ComfortDelGro's group chief sustainability officer and chief executive of its private mobility unit, the Singapore-listed land transport group said on Monday (Jan 3).
Mr Chia will helm the taxi business concurrently with his existing portfolio.
Mr Ang, 54, who is also an MP for West Coast GRC, has been head of ComfortDelGro's taxi business since May 2017.
Before that, he was senior vice-president of SBS Transit's bus operations.
SBS Transit is a ComfortDelGro subsidiary.
Mr Ang said he decided to move on after more than 17 years at the transport company. "Seventeen years is quite a long time already," he told The Straits Times.
He declined to reveal where he was going to next, only saying that he would make his next career move known in due time.
His successor, Mr Chia, joined ComfortDelGro in 2017 after 28 years in the Singapore Armed Forces, where he held the rank of rear-admiral and was chief of naval staff of the Republic of Singapore Navy.
His first role at ComfortDelGro was deputy head of rail at SBS Transit.
Mr Chia was then appointed senior vice-president at ComfortDelGro's transformation office and following that, group chief risk and sustainability officer, before he took on his current roles in June last year.
According to his biography on ComfortDelGro's website, Mr Chia graduated from the University of Birmingham in Britain with a degree in economics and statistics.
He also has a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in the United States.
Mr Ang said: "I hope Jackson can build on the digital platform that we have developed over the years to benefit commuters and cabbies."
Separately, transport operator SMRT has also had a senior executive leave the firm.
Ms Dawn Low, formerly SMRT International’s executive vice-president, has joined the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) as a cluster director overseeing digital readiness. Ms Low, who was also chief marketing officer at SMRT, started her new role at IMDA on Monday.
At SMRT, her duties included developing SMRT’s international business and driving marketing plans for business growth.
At IMDA, she will lead the agency’s Digital for Life and Digital Readiness agenda to prepare Singaporeans for the digital future. Her job scope includes formulating strategies, developing programmes and overseeing operations.
She will also oversee the Singapore Digital Office, which seeks to drive the Government’s initiatives to accelerate digital adoption in the community.
- Additional reporting by Toh Ting Wei
