Mr Gerald Ong Chong Keng was appointed a Director of Metro in June 2007. He is a member of the Audit and Investment Committees.
He is currently the Deputy Chairman of the PrimePartners Corporate Finance Group and is The Honorary Consul for Liechtenstein. Mr Ong has more than 25 years of corporate finance related experience. He has held senior positions at various financial institutions including NM Rothschilds & Sons (Singapore) Ltd, the DBS Bank Group, Tokyo-Mitsubishi International (Singapore) Pte Ltd and Hong Leong (Malaysia) Group. During his time with these institutions, Mr Ong’s duties encompassed the provision of a wide variety of corporate finance services from advisory, mergers and acquisitions activities and fund raising exercises incorporating various structures such as equity, debt, equity-linked and derivative-enhanced issues.
Mr Ong has been recognised as an IBF Distinguished Fellow and is a Council Member of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. He is an alumnus of the National University of Singapore, University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School.