The Singapore Shipping Association (SSA) announced that Michael Phoon has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the SSA as a result of the forthcoming retirement of Mr Daniel Tan after 29 years of dedicated service to the Association.
Phoon will formally take over the position on August 1. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business administration majoring in Finance from the Menlo College, School of Business in California from which he graduated in 1987.
He has subsequently enjoyed a highly successful career at Hewlett Packard where he most recently held the position of Director & General Manager of the HP Enterprise Networking Business Unit for Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Phoon is a certified master coach (he graduated in 2009 at the Graduate School of Master Coaches at the Behavioural Coaching Institute in California) and has won a number of top awards including the HP CEO President's Club in 2005 and 2007.