Professor Bert De Reyck earned his BSc in Applied Economics, MSc in Information Systems Engineering and PhD in Operations Management from the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the Founding Director of the UCL School of Management at University College London. Before joining UCL, Professor Bert held positions at London Business School, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Rotterdam School of Management. He has also taught at Columbia University, Hong Kong University, and CEIBS. He has been the recipient of several teaching and applied research awards.

Mr Pek Lian Guan started his career at Tiong Seng Contractors upon his graduation from Loughborough University of Technology, United Kingdom, with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (First Class Hons) in 1989. In 1993, he was appointed as the Director of Tiong Seng Contractors and soon became the Deputy Managing Director in 1997. Mr Pek has over 22 years of experience in project management for civil engineering and building works in Singapore and entrepreneurial activities in the region.

Ms. Quek Lee Keng is Senior Vice President in UOB Wholesale Banking Group - Corporate Banking Singapore as Industry Banker for the Oil & Gas sector. Prior to this, she covers the Government Linked Companies in addition to her specialist role as the Senior Vice President in Specialised Asset Banked Financing involved in advisory and business origination for UOB Group's oil & gas project financing; vessel and marine-related financing; aviation-related financing and other specialised asset based financing (e.g. storage terminal projects).

Mr Lawrence Loh is Managing Director and Head of Group Business Banking and is responsible for UOB Group’s small business segment across its South East Asia markets.

In addition to driving growth of the markets under his coverage, he leads the beyond banking initiatives in UOB small business segment that drive strategic partnerships with government institutions and technology companies to help curate SME ecosystems, build SME digital capabilities so SMEs can benefit to operate more efficiently to scale their businesses domestically and regionally.

Mr. Eric Lian joined UOB on 21 September 2020.

He is responsible for the Group Commercial Banking of Wholesale Banking of the Group which include Corporate & Commercial Banking, Commercial Real Estate Institutions, Specialised and Commodities Finance as well as Special Asset Management.

Partnering UOB-SMU Asian Enterprise Institute, a partnership between UOB, SMU and other local enterprises, SPRING Singapore is making marketing and branding assistance more readily available via the SME Consulting Programme, in which project advisors and student teams provide high-quality marketing and branding advice to SMEs. A branding seminar for SMEs, Branding is not Rocket Science, will take place on Thursday, 15 November at the SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business.