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The Management |
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Tan Wearn Haw,
CEO
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Wearn Haw, 32, is a product of one of Singapore’s earliest junior sailing programmes under the then Optimist Dinghy Association of Singapore (ODAS). The first Singaporean to win the Optimist Asian Championships and multiple Asean titles, he subsequently progressed through the various youth classes to the Olympic 470 class. The Sydney 2000 Olympian garnered several Asian titles during the Olympic campaign, as well as an assortment of Asian and SEA Games medals.
His pursuit of sailing excellence saw him crossing over to windsurfing and subsequently returning to compete in one of sailing’s premier events, as a navigator and strategist onboard the Sino-French America’s Cup Challenger for the 32nd America’s Cup in 2007, being based in Valencia for over 2 years during the leadup. His wide repertoire of sailing expertise ranges from Optimist dinghies to double-handed 470, to adrenaline filled windsurfing, to match racing on 17-man crew 85 feet America’s Cup (version 5) yachts and even high speed Extreme 40 catamarans.
Awarded a Public Service Commission Scholarship by the Singapore government to pursue his undergraduate studies in France and United Kingdom in 1997, Wearn Haw graduated from Imperial College, London with a Masters Degree in Aeronautical Engineering. His diverse education and career background has provided him with opportunity of living in different Asian, European and Oceania countries over the past 12 years and has seen him involved in sports policy development with the Ministry of Community Development,
Youth and Sports (MCYS), compete as a professional athlete with an America’s Cup Challenger team as well as sports and education development with the Singapore Sports School. In his previous appointment with MCYS prior to joining the Federation, Wearn Haw was working closely with various stakeholders in Singapore sport to materialise and manage several key projects such as Olympic Pathway Programme 2012, development of Singapore Sports Institute, sports development funding as well as elite and youth athlete management programmes.
Fluent in English, Chinese and French and conversant in several other languages and dialects, Wearn Haw has also been involved with several volunteer projects. He was elected to the Federation’s first High Performance Sailing Committee in 2002 as the sailors’ representative and is currently an elected Executive Committee member of Olympians Singapore.
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Jason Lim,
General Manager
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Jason, 60, is a familiar face in the Singapore sailing community. Jason was part of the pioneer group that created the then East Coast Sailing Centre (ECSC) in the early 1980's. The ECSC was a hugely successful entrepreneurial windsurfing centre that grew to become the world's largest windsurfing centre by the late 1980's - it boasted 1,500 members, 800 boards, and had 20,000 people undergoing windsurfing courses each year. Apart from organising the Boardsailing World Championships in 1993, ECSC also hosted the inaugural Asian Optimist Championships in 1990 and the iconic Laser Asia Pacific Championships in 1992. Jason was also closely involved in reactivating the national Optimist sailing programme in 1989, setting the foundation stone of today's highly successful Optimist sailing programme.
Jason subsequently built on his club and events management expertise and moved into consultancy work for several clubs including Republic of Singapore Yacht Club, Nongsa Point Marina and Boats & METS Asia from 1997 to 1999. The avid windsurfer and sailor then revisited his sailing roots and spent an extended period in the United Kingdom to obtain his Yachtmaster qualifications from the Royal Yachting Association in 2003. Returning a year later, Jason then joined several clubs and marinas in Singapore in various senior management roles before he was scouted to manage the Discovery Bay Marina Club in Hong Kong in 2008.
Fresh from his stint in Hong Kong where he oversaw the management of the world's largest live-aboard boating community with over 500 residents at Discovery Bay, Jason was immediately approached to consult on the recently completed rejuvenation project at NSRCC Sea Sports Centre with the freshly minted new look beachfront enterprise during the past three months.
A former Secretary of the then Singapore Yachting Association (SYA) and also a former Vice President for windsurfing in the SingaporeSailing Executive Committee, Jason has been instrumental in developing the sport of sailing and windsurfing over the years. Jason served as the Secretary of the SYA under three different Presidents - Messrs Peter Lim, Ng Ser Miang, and Ong Siong Kai.
Having introduced his sons to sailing almost 30 years ago, the doting grandfather has been patiently waiting for his grandchildren to grow to 'sailable' age!
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Soh Se Yen,
Head of Finance, Administration and Human Resources
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Se-Yen joined Singapore Sailing on 15 May 2011 as Head of Finance and Human Resource.
She has obtained professional Accountancy Degree from Nanyang Technological University and Master of Business Administration from University of Adelaide.
She is a member of Institute of Certified Public Accountant of Singapore and has accounting and tax experience in Deloitte & Touch and industries such as petroleum, gas and IT.
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