Vincent Chong
President & CEO, ST Engineering
Mr. Vincent Chong is President & CEO of ST Engineering, an integrated defence and engineering group with a global presence, specialising in the aerospace,electronics, land systems and marine sectors.
Before he assumed this role in October 2016, Mr. Chong was President & CEO (Designate) responsible for the Group’s four business sectors and the corporate functions. Prior to that, he was the Group’s Deputy CEO (Corporate Development).He joined the Group in 2014 as President of Strategic Plans & Business Development at ST Aerospace, the Group’s aerospace arm.
Mr. Chong brings with him 20 years of global business experience from his career at ExxonMobil where he spent more than half of this time located outside Singapore in Hong Kong, Japan, UK and the US. He held a wide span of positions from refinery process engineering, product marketing, industrial and retail operations to strategic planning. Among his appointments was Global Director, Marine Fuels (located in Surrey, UK) where he was responsible for ExxonMobil’s business in more than 200 ports across the world. As Downstream Senior Advisor, Corporate Strategic Planning (located in Irving, Texas), Mr. Chong was involved in the development of ExxonMobil’s global business plans.
Before joining the ST Engineering Group in 2014, he was Director of Asia Pacific Lubricants Sales at ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Private Limited, responsible for automotive and industrial lubricants business across more than 20 countries in the region.
Mr. Chong is a board member of JTC Corporation, the lead agency in Singapore to spearhead the planning, promotion and development of a dynamic industrial landscape. He is also a member of Ministry of Trade and Industry’s International Advisory Panel for Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering and he was a member of the Government-convened Committee on the Future Economy, which in February 2017 released its strategies and recommendations to chart Singapore’s next phase of growth.
He graduated in 1994 with First Class Honours in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore. He has also attended executive leadership programmes at the Thunderbird School of Global Management and the Columbia Business School.
