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Janice Koh

Janice is a respected stage and television actor and a former Nominated Member of Parliament. 

She has an Honours degree in Theatre Studies from the National University of Singapore and graduated from the University of London’s Goldsmith’s College with a Masters with Distinction in Theatre Administration. 

Janice is an active volunteer who sits on various boards in the non-profit arts and education sectors.

Mary Ann Tsao

Mary Ann is the Chairperson and Founding Director of The Tsao Foundation, a Singapore-based – but regionally oriented – non-profit operational foundation dedicated to aged care and promoting the wellbeing of older people at policy and practice levels by catalysing constructive change. Previously, she was also its CEO and President.

Mary Ann serves on numerous boards and committees of government and non-profit organisations in Singapore as well as internationally. For her work on ageing, she received the Public Service Medal in 2000, Public Service Star in 2004, and Public Service Star (Bar) in 2015 from the Singapore government. She has also worked with numerous multilateral agencies, such as the World Health Organisation, UNESCAP and the ASEAN Secretariat. She was a board director of Family Business Network Asia and, as a member of its Ambassador Circle, continues to advocate for family businesses to put purpose into profit and be a force for good.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Mary Ann is a US-trained physician with a public health background, specialising in community and primary care planning and social medicine. She has extensive experience working with disadvantaged communities in the US and Singapore.

Choo Chek Siew

Chek Siew was the Group Chief Financial Officer at ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited where he was awarded the Best CFO at the Business Times Singapore Corporate Awards. Prior to that he served in various Head of Finance positions at Citibank N.A, Union Bank of Switzerland, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation and DBS Bank. He holds a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from the Australian National University and is an Australian Chartered Accountant.

He served on the Singapore Accounting Standards Board of ACRA; was Chairman of the CFO Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Singapore and served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Singapore Management University’s School Of Accountancy. He was a past President of the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped.  He is currently a member of the Board at the Community Foundation of Singapore.

In his spare time, Chek Siew enjoys food and wines, travelling and the visual arts.

Chong Chan Meng

Chan Meng is the Vice President for Organisation Transformation at Changi Airport Group.  He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Engineering Economic Systems & Operations Research. With 25 years of experience spanning the public and private sectors as well as start-ups, Chan Meng has taken on roles from software development to business management to digital transformation.

Dedicated to the arts, Chan Meng aids playwright and sister-in-law Stella Kon in managing her creative intellectual property, including Emily of Emerald Hill. He has been lindy-hopping since his university days, and met his wife on the dance floor. Two of their three children are active in the performing arts.

Pauline Gan

Pauline is a seasoned professional with a diverse background in law, education and the arts. After practising corporate law for several years, she joined the Nanyang Technological University, where she taught law at the Nanyang Business School.

Her passion for the arts eventually led her to pursue a Masters in Asian Art Histories and to co-found Plural, a leading online magazine dedicated to modern and contemporary Southeast Asian art. Through Plural, Pauline has made significant contributions to the promotion of critical discourse in the visual arts in Singapore and beyond. Her work with Plural, including collaborations with the National Arts Council and the National Heritage Board, reflects her desire to engage diverse audiences and facilitate meaningful conversations through the arts. 

Pauline is now a consultant with Catalyse, gender equality charity AWARE’s consulting and training arm, where she works with organisations to create safer, more inclusive and diverse workplaces.

Glen Goei

Glen’s substantial body of work encompasses a wide range of the performing arts, including theatre, film, parades and world expos. Highlights include his Olivier Award-nominated performance in the title role of M. Butterfly opposite Anthony Hopkins in London’s West End; and his critically acclaimed feature films, Forever Fever and The Blue Mansion. 

Glen has also made significant contributions to Singapore’s theatre scene. Since 2002, Glen has served as the Co-Artistic Director of Wild Rice, for which he has directed hits such as La Cage Aux Folles, HOTEL, Public Enemy, The Importance of Being Earnest, The House of Bernarda Alba, Cook a Pot of Curry, Emily of Emerald Hill, Family Outing, Blithe Spirit, The Magic Fundoshi, Aladdin and Boeing Boeing.

Shufen Goh

Shufen is the Co-Founder and President (Asia Pacific) of R3 – a leading global consultancy that works with twelve of the world’s top twenty marketers across the US, Asia, EMEA and LATAM. R3 is a MediaSense Company.

Shufen brings more than two decades of experience helping CMOs and brands increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their marketing through the optimisation of agency partnerships and measurement. Companies Shufen has worked with include Coca-Cola, P&G, L’Oréal, Unilever and Mastercard.

Committed to growing the positive impact of marketing in the Asia Pacific, Shufen has served multiple terms since 2010 in leading the Institute of Advertising (IAS), an industry association that has since merged with the local 4As into the Association of Advertising & Marketing Singapore (AAMS). During her tenure as president, she drove initiatives that reinforced Singapore as the marcoms hub of Asia and chaired the regional marketing effectiveness platform APPIES. Shufen currently serves on the boards of Singapore Turf Club and Kallang Alive Sport Management, and has offered mentorship to European startups venturing into Southeast Asia.

She is the co-author of three books on marketing leadership and digital transformation, a passionate champion of women, and founder of Women of the World (WoW) – an initiative to connect and elevate women in the marketing industry.

Harris Zaidi

Harris graduated with honours from NUS’ Theatre Studies programme. He first worked with Ivan Heng as the production manager for SRT’s Kiss of the Spider Woman, Ah Kong’s Birthday Party and Art. 

Harris has also dabbled in acting on TV and in theatre. While working with Ivan on Asian Boys Vol. 2 in 2004, Harris met – as fate would have it – the love of his life. 

After 12 years at the head of his own events management agency, Harris is tackling his biggest roles yet – fatherhood, and helping to build WILD RICE’s new home in Funan.

Ivan Heng

Ivan Heng is one of Singapore’s most prominent and dynamic creative personalities. In a pioneering career spanning close to four decades, Ivan has directed, acted and designed many landmark Singapore theatre productions, which have been performed in more than 20 cities around the world.

Ivan founded Wild Rice in 2000. Under his leadership, the company has reached out to an audience of more than a million people, and is today at the vanguard of creating theatre with a distinctive Singaporean voice. Together with Executive Director Tony Trickett, Ivan envisioned the company’s ground-breaking theatre complex which opened on 8 August 2019. 

In 2013, Ivan was awarded the Cultural Medallion, Singapore’s highest cultural honour. In 2024, he received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French Government. He has a law degree from the National University of Singapore.

Sam Kok Weng

Kok Weng is a partner with PwC in Singapore, where he leads the Business Recovery Services practice. With three decades of experience in professional services at PwC, he is an experienced Financial Services and Deals practitioner and has worked with many financial institutions and on many landmark financial services deals in the region.

A licensed liquidator, Kok Weng is involved in restructuring, investigating and liquidating businesses. He also previously led the human capital and clients & markets functions, as well as the financial services industry practice, within PwC Singapore.

Aside from Wild Rice, he is also a board member of WorkWell Leaders, Alexandra Health Fund, Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore Limited and Singapore Tyler Print Institute. Kok Weng was a board member of School of the Arts and the Advisory Board of SMU – School of Accountancy. He is also a volunteer docent with National Gallery Singapore.

Tony Trickett

Born in Liverpool, Tony moved to Singapore in 1997. Prior to joining Wild Rice, he worked as a management consultant, specialising in leadership coaching and team development for multi-national companies. 

Tony acted as a consultant in the establishment of Wild Rice and became a director of the company in 2001. In August 2002, he was appointed Executive Director, responsible for the overall management of the company. 

Tony is the producer for all Wild Rice shows, both in Singapore and abroad. This includes all editions of the acclaimed Singapore Theatre Festival, which he conceived together with Founding Artistic Director Ivan Heng.

Elaine Yew

Elaine is a Senior Partner in Egon Zehnder, the global leadership advisory firm, where she works with private and public companies on succession planning for CEO and Non-Executive positions, CEO development, top team effectiveness, organisational culture and board effectiveness. She is also an Executive Coach and a certified Mediator.

She has been part of the firm’s leadership team in various roles, including being the Managing Partner in Singapore and serving on the Global Executive Committee. Elaine also serves on a number of other Boards, including the Ministry of Health Holdings (MOHH), SPH Media Holdings, and The Majurity Trust.

While her career (so far!) has been in the business world, Elaine’s first passion was the theatre, and she has a BA with Honours in English and Drama from the University of Kent and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. She is delighted to be returning to the magical realm of theatre, to support the flourishing of Wild Rice.

Simone Lourey

Over the last 20 years, Simone has been involved in the visual and performing arts industries in Singapore and Hong Kong as a producer, marcomms consultant and philanthropist. 

In 1998, she took up the first Asialink Arts Management residency in Hong Kong, where she produced the Spotlight on Melbourne series as part of the City Festival. From 2013 to 2016, she was honoured with Patron of the Arts Awards for her contribution to Singapore’s arts and cultural sectors. 

Formerly a Director of Singapore’s The TENG Ensemble, Simone is patron of Asialink’s Singapore chapter and a Director of Wild Rice Ltd.

Anthonia Hui

A true graduate from the “university of life” who started working at the age of six to put herself through school, Anthonia went on to have a successful banking career all over Europe and Asia and co-founded a wealth management and multi-family office business with her husband. Through her journey of helping to manage her entrepreneurial clients’ family wealth, she came to recognise the importance of defining relationships in terms of “money” as well as the “purpose of wealth”. This kickstarted her personal journey in philanthropy.  

Anthonia is a passionate advocate of philanthropic causes, specifically those involved in all key stages of life: nutrition for children and women, ageing health research, assisted-living and dementia care. She also supports the performing arts as she believes in the power of the arts to nurture the soul and mental-health of modern societies; her work in this regard supports the creation of an ecosystem of community giving and collaboration. Her most recent project tackles the eradication of  human trafficking and modern slavery. She is a frequent speaker/lecturer on issues related to international private wealth management, compliance/regulatory and family office matters, and in philanthropic forums.

Chan Ying Lock

Ying Lock has enjoyed a rich, diverse career in and out of the world of finance. He first worked as an auditor in the UK and Singapore, before moving into corporate finance with stints at Hill Samuel Merchant Bank and KPMG. 

He has also served as Vice-President of Transpac Venture Capital, Group General Manager of Leong Hin and Chief Operating Officer of S.E. Hub. In 2015, he joined Garden Impact Investments as its senior director of investments. 

Along the way, Ying Lock has managed Insight Guides, a travel publication company, and now teaches part-time at Nanyang Technological University’s business school.

Randy Chan

One of Singapore’s leading architects, Randy has worked on architectural/design projects as diverse as stage design, private housing, cluster housing and master-planning. 

His work has been published in numerous local architecture magazines and international publications, including Robert Powell’s Singapore Houses. Randy’s projects have won several accolades, including the Building & Construction Authority’s Green Mark Platinum Award in 2014. 

Randy has worked as the principal set and stage designer for national and international events, including the National Day Parade (2004, 2008, 2009 and 2011), Singapore’s Supergarden Pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale, and the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010.

Bill Ang

Bill is an unusual blend of traditional brand strategist and modern-day creative storyteller. Passionate, collaborative, and innovative, he is adept at managing global brands and working with creative teams to develop powerful brand ideas. 

He has worked with multi-national agencies, like Ogilvy & Mather, and government agencies such as the Singapore Tourism Board. He has lectured at his alma mater, the National University of Singapore, and LASALLE College of the Arts. 

In his personal capacity, Bill has lent his expertise to organisations such as China National Tourism Institute and the Singapore Film Commission. In his free time, Bill sings jazz.

Deborah Barker

Deborah, the Managing Partner of Withers KhattarWong, has worked for more than three decades in the areas of civil and commercial litigation and has extensive experience in both trial and appellate litigation. 

She is instructed to act in various complex corporate and trust claims, property-related matters and international disputes. Her experience extends beyond commercial law. Notably, she acted in an appeal involving constitutional issues of public importance relating to Section 377A of the Penal Code. 

Deborah’s cases have been regularly reported in the Singapore Law Reports and international legal guides have named her as one of Singapore’s leading legal practitioners.

Tan Siok Sun

Born in an Indonesian town, Siok Sun was one of a few women working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the 1970s. 

After slaving at JP Morgan and Standard Chartered Bank for ten years, motherhood meant flexible hours as a headhunter, which afforded her the time to author Goh Keng Swee: A Portrait (2007). She retired from Singapore Management University after eight years in the President’s Special Advisor Office.

In Wild Rice, Siok Sun, a frustrated actress at heart, has rekindled her passion for the arts and will move mountain and earth to secure an iconic theatre for Singapore.