Executive Management

Director, GIC Board

Dr Jeffrey Jaensubhakij was appointed as Group Chief Investment Officer on 1 January 2017. He joined GIC in 1998 as a Senior Economist covering the US economy. He has held asset allocation portfolio responsibilities as Co-Head of Asset Allocation Strategy in the Economics and Strategy Department, and from 2003 to 2011 was Head of Total Return Equities and the US Equities teams based in GIC’s New York Office. In 2011, he was appointed President, Europe, responsible for coordinating GIC’s investment activities in Europe across public and private asset classes. He was appointed President, Public Markets and Director of Public Equities in 2013, and Deputy Group Chief Investment Officer in 2016.

Dr Jaensubhakij holds a BA in Economics from Cambridge University, as well as a Masters and a PhD in Economics from Stanford University.

Tay Lim Hock assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) in July 2019. He joined GIC’s Asian Private Equity (PE) team in 1995, and was posted to London in 2000 as Head PE Europe and to San Francisco in 2003 as Head PE US. He became PE’s Global Head of the Funds and Co-Investment Group in 2008, Deputy President of PE & Infrastructure in 2010, and President in 2011. In January 2017, Mr Tay returned to London as President (Europe), and was concurrently Deputy Group Chief Investment Officer. Prior to GIC, he worked as an Aeronautical Engineer with the Republic of Singapore Air Force.

Mr Tay graduated from I’Ecole Nationale de I’Aviation Civile (ENAC) in Toulouse, France, with a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering in 1987, and completed the Stanford Executive Program in 2004.

Lim Kee Chong has been GIC’s Deputy Group Chief Investment Officer and Director of Integrated Strategies Group since April 2013, and is currently based in GIC’s New York Office. He is concurrently President (Americas). He joined GIC in 1987, and built his career in the Equities Department. He was appointed Head of global equities in July 2010. In his tenure at GIC, he has managed portfolios running the gamut of developed market equities, as well as global sector and global equities portfolios. As Director of Integrated Strategies, he heads a unit that looks at opportunities in both public and private companies.

Mr Lim graduated with an Economics degree from the University of Tokyo, where he studied under a government scholarship.

Dr Chia Tai Tee is Chief Risk Officer at GIC. Before his appointment in July 2011, he served as Deputy Chief Risk Officer and Director of Risk and Performance Management Department. He has held various positions in economics and strategy, foreign exchange, and quantitative investments. Dr Chia sits on the EDHEC-Risk Institute International Advisory Board, chairs the People’s Association Investment Advisory Committee, is a member of the Tote Board Investment Committee, Singapore Institute of Technology endowment fund Investment Committee as well as the Ministry of Home Affairs Pension Plan Board of Trustees, and its Risk and Audit Committee. Prior to joining GIC in 1994, he was a lecturer at the National University of Singapore.

Dr Chia graduated with a degree in Economics from the University of Adelaide and holds a PhD from Australian National University.

Wu Choy Peng was appointed Chief Technology Officer in August 2017 to provide integrated oversight for technology and data analytics. Before joining GIC, she was Group Chief Information Officer of Singapore Telecommunications Limited (Singtel). From 2006 to 2012, she was Group Chief Information Officer of Neptune Orient Lines Group. Prior to that, she held various senior appointments including the Singapore Government’s Chief Information Officer, Deputy Chief Executive (Industry) of the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) and Chief Information Officer of the Ministry of Education (MOE). She spent 10 years at the National Computer Board (NCB) upon graduation. Ms Wu is on the board and executive committee of the National University Health System (NUHS), and chairs its Board IT Committee. She is also on the board of Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA), and a member of its Board Risk and Audit Committee.

Ms Wu holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in Computer/Communication Science/Mathematics and a Master of Science in Computer Science/Engineering, both from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Deanna Ong was appointed Chief People Officer in April 2017 to oversee human capital strategy, talent management, leadership and organization development in GIC. She has been responsible for Human Resource & Organization and Corporate Governance since 2012. Ms Ong was Director, Finance from 2009 to 2014, during which she headed the Finance Group responsible for financial management across GIC’s portfolio, covering financing arrangements for assets, tax planning, investment holding structures, accounting and management of group revenue and expenditure. Prior to joining GIC in 1994, she was a tax accountant with Arthur Andersen. Ms Ong is currently a board member of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds.

Ms Ong holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, and has completed the Stanford Executive Program.