Ken Chew

CEO

Singapore, Singapore

About

Ken was the Deputy CEO of a Single Family Office + Licenced Fund Management Company which is evolving into a platform whereby we design and work with our partners to develop new products and offerings that we need. This may be a sign of things to come: Asian SFOs evolving to suit the needs of the current mega-trends as capital and good people gather into Singapore, in a way that is different from how family offices came to be in Europe and the US, etc. Since then, the platform has evolved to something newer, more exciting, and meeting the current trends and needs of this era; we took the opportunity to rebrand ourselves to IWC Management (f.k.a. XIN Fund Management) and Ken now helms it as CEO. Previously, Ken was a key executive in a Singapore-licensed digital exchange, assisting with license application, processes setup, initial projects/issuance, solving issues, etc. He also has Capital Markets-related structuring, fundraising & capital products, Real Estate-related market experience covering China, Japan, South Korea, India & Southeast Asia (ISEA) markets, etc. for multiple asset classes in Investment & Asset Management, in both Public Markets and Private Equity (PE) & Startup-related experience in Artificial Intelligence (AI), FinTech, Blockchain, healthcare, Internet-Of-Things (IOT), etc. He is versatile with good network in Private, Public & Government sectors. Ken is interested and invested in transgenerational, transformative and impactful (TTI) technologies in Healthcare, Web3 Blockchain, AI, FinTech, IOT, ESG/EV and Advanced Manufacturing. He is also active and interested in public welfare/charity and things that can contribute to the improvement of society.

Experience

  • IWC Management (Singapore)
    • Chief Executive Officer
      Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

      Formerly known as "XIN Fund Management Pte. Ltd.", we have rebranded from 1st January 2025 to "IWC Management Pte. Ltd." with a new vision and positioning. Check out our new website at: https://www.iwcmgmt.com/

    • Deputy CEO
      Aug 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Known as "XIN Fund Management Pte. Ltd." until 31 December 2024, we started with managing the Single-Family Office (SFO) fund of a famous UHNWI and progressed to receive an Accredited/Institutional Investor Licensed Fund Management Company (A/I-LFMC) status from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), managing tech-related funds, an art fund, etc.

  • Chief Operating Officer (COO) at DigiFT Tech
    Jan 2022 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

    DigiFT is the World's 1st decentralised security token trading platform in a regulated sandbox ("Regulated-DEX"), making it the Go-To for partners who wants to provide/create DeFi solutions using financial/regulated assets.

  • Sasseur Asset Management (4 yrs 8 mos)
    • Chief Operating Officer
      Sep 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Chief Investment Officer
      May 2017 - Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Listed on Singapore Stock Exchange on 28 March 2018, Sasseur REIT is a Singapore real estate investment trust (“REIT”) established with the investment strategy of investing principally, directly or indirectly, in a diversified portfolio of income-producing real estate which is used primarily for retail outlet mall purposes, as well as real estate related assets in relation to the foregoing, with an initial focus on Asia. Sasseur Asset Management is the REIT Manager for Sasseur REIT.

  • Fosun Group (Singapore)
    • Chief Representative, Singapore
      Apr 2016 - May 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

    • Managing Director, Southeast Asia Investments, Fosun Property Holdings
      2015 - May 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Vice President, Regional Investment & Asset Management at CapitaLand Limited
    2012 - 2015 · 3 yrs