Singapore's MediaCorp has appointed Shaun Seow as its Chief Executive Officer and Board Director with immediate effect.
Mr Seow has been MediaCorp's Deputy CEO since 2005, overseeing a range of business lines spanning television, radio, print, interactive and outdoor media.
Mr Seow's appointment followed an intensive executive search to fill the MediaCorp CEO position after Mr Lucas Chow resigned from that position in January 2011.
Mr Teo Ming Kian, MediaCorp Chairman, says, "I am very pleased that the new CEO is a homegrown talent from within the organisation. Having experienced and run the whole gamut of the media business, Shaun is a most worthy successor and I have every confidence that he will be able to harness the strengths of the company and work alongside the Board, Management and staff to steer the company to greater heights. The time for renewal of leadership is most appropriate as the company prepares itself for the move to a new campus at Mediapolis over the next few years. "
Mr Seow began his media career as a newspaper journalist at Singapore Press Holdings and Japan's Nihon Kezai Shimbun, before switching to Television Corporation of Singapore. There, he worked as a news director and TV host, and was instrumental in launching Channel NewsAsia internationally.
Mr Seow has been MediaCorp's Deputy CEO since 2005, overseeing a range of business lines spanning television, radio, print, interactive and outdoor media.
Mr Seow's appointment followed an intensive executive search to fill the MediaCorp CEO position after Mr Lucas Chow resigned from that position in January 2011.
Mr Teo Ming Kian, MediaCorp Chairman, says, "I am very pleased that the new CEO is a homegrown talent from within the organisation. Having experienced and run the whole gamut of the media business, Shaun is a most worthy successor and I have every confidence that he will be able to harness the strengths of the company and work alongside the Board, Management and staff to steer the company to greater heights. The time for renewal of leadership is most appropriate as the company prepares itself for the move to a new campus at Mediapolis over the next few years. "
Mr Seow began his media career as a newspaper journalist at Singapore Press Holdings and Japan's Nihon Kezai Shimbun, before switching to Television Corporation of Singapore. There, he worked as a news director and TV host, and was instrumental in launching Channel NewsAsia internationally.
An Eisenhower Fellow on US media studies, Mr Seow read Economics at Cambridge University in Britain on a President's Scholarship.
(Source : Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union)
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