Ho Jia Jun Stephen
General Manager, Operations
Wing Tai Asia
BIOGRAPHY
Mr Stephen Ho holds a MBA (High Honours) from the University of Chicago Booth
School of Business, a Masters and a Honour’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from
the National University of Singapore. He started his career with the Housing and
Development Board as an electrical engineer in 1998 and was subsequently
seconded to the Ministry of National Development. As Assistant Director of
Corporate Development there, he was responsible for driving the innovation and
organisational excellence effort of both the Ministry as well as the various statutory
boards under the Ministry’s purview, with a total staff strength in excess of 12 000.
Stephen subsequently joined Surbana International Consultants Pte Ltd (SIC). At SIC,
he held numerous leadership positions. This included Director (Consultancy) and
Director (New Technologies) at Surbana Technologies as well as Country Director
(United Arab Emirates), Senior Vice President (Business Development), and Regional
Director of Middle East, Africa and Latin America of SIC. As Country Director (UAE),
he spearheaded Surbana’s expansion into the Middle East and was responsible for
setting up Surbana’s Regional HQ in Abu Dhabi. In his role as Regional Director
(MEALA), he was responsible for the full profit and loss of Surbana’s operations in
those regions.
Stephen joined Keppel Land International as their head of international investment
in 2010. In this role, he was responsible for seeking out and structuring real estate
investment opportunities internationally outside of China. Stephen subsequently
relocated to Shanghai as part of the newly formed Keppel Land China, spearheading
Keppel’s business development’s effort in China. He was later appointed City Head
(Shanghai), in that role, Stephen was responsible for the full profit and loss of Keppel
Land’s operations in Shanghai, comprising five on-going developmental projects and
an investment asset; ranging from high end condominiums, Grade A commercial
buildings, large scale townships and a retail mall. He was also the Chairman and
Legal Representative of the project companies.
Stephen joined Wing Tai in 2014 as General Manager, Operations. As GM (Ops), he is
responsible for the streamlining and enhancement of systems and processes in Wing
Tai’s property arm, across its development projects in Singapore, Malaysia and China.
Stephen is also overseeing the implementation of the Enterprise Risk Management
framework across Wing Tai’s property development business.
On the professional front, Stephen is a member of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and
Institute of Engineers Singapore (IES) as well as that of the Beta Gamma Sigma
Honour Society, and has held international leadership positions in IEEE and IET.