Zee Yoong Kang

Chief Executive Officer

Zee Yoong Kang is the Chief Executive Officer of the National Trades Union Congress(NTUC) LearningHub (LHUB^®). LHUB^® is the largest training services providers in Singapore, and promotes lifelong employability for Singapore workers by providing innovative, high quality and affordable learning targeted especially at rank-and-file workers.

Since joining NTUC in 2003, Zee served as Director (JobLink) and Director (Job Re-creation Department).  He was also the founding CEO of NTUC's Employment and Employability Institute (e2i).

Prior to joining NTUC, Zee worked at Bain and Co as a management consultant, handling projects in the IT, Heavy Engineering, FMCG and Government sectors. Before that, he served in the Administrative Service of the Singapore Government in various capacities in the Prime Minister's Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of National Development.

Zee received his Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) (Honors) from Oxford University and has a Master of Business Administration (Finance and Strategy) (Honors) from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the Board of Governors for Temasek Polytechnic and the Institute of Technical Education (ITE). He is also a Board Member of Educare Co-operative Limited and 1st Deputy Chairman for Singapore National Co-operative Federation (SCF), and serves as Commanding Officer of the 700th Battalion, Singapore Infantry Regiment.

Dr Chan Mun Kitt

Director - NEXT U^®

Dr Chan is Director for Next U^®, NTUC LearningHub’s latest initiative, focusing on developing a new breed of professionals who possess deep skills in their specific area of expertise, as well as broad knowledge of horizontal skills in areas such as finance, business operations and project management. Prior to this appointment, Dr Chan led the Business Development Unit at NTUC LearningHub (LHUB^®) and has been actively involved in the setting up of new businesses and training entities both locally and overseas in China, India and the Middle East. Earlier, he was General Manager of the Workplace Safety and Health Training unit as well as Director of Corporate Services in LHUB® overseeing human resource, operations, facilities, finance and IT. 

Before joining LHUB^®, Dr Chan also worked at the NTUC Admin and Research Unit (ARU) for 10 years where he has been actively involved in union membership recruitment, customer service, skills development, human resource and industrial relations work.

Dr Chan was educated at Nanyang Technological University (BBus), Singapore; Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK (GradDipM); PSB Academy (Cert™); and the University of Leicester, UK (MBA). He attained his Doctorate in Education (EdD) from the University of Durham, UK.

Suresh H Punjabi

Director - Employability and Industry Skills

Suresh is responsible for the growth of the Industry Skills unit which includes Vocational and Technical Training (VTT) programmes such as WSQ Security and Manufacturing, NSRS Cleaning, Trades and Pharmaceutical training.

Prior to this, he was the General Manager for Business Development, helping to launch the first vocational training programmes for LHUB® while leading business development activities with strategic partnersand new clients. He was also General Manager for Continuing Education and Training (CET). Suresh was instrumental in the launch of the soft Skills offerings and Employability Camps as well as implementation of WSQ - Employability Skills system in LHUB^®.

He was educated at the University of Wales (BSc, Hons, Business Computing and IT), RMIT University (M Bus, IT) and Nanyang Technological University (MA, Education Management).

Cindy Tan

Director - People and Capability Management

Cindy spearheads both the Human Resource and Capability Management Departments. She is responsible for the overall provision of human resources services, policies and programmes. She also oversees the standards and policies pertaining to trainer management, curriculum development and the quality of the LHUB^® training delivery experience.

With more than fifteen years of regional human resources experience in the service industry, Cindy has held human resource management and development positions in various dynamic retail organisations. She has led various human resources initiatives with the objective to enhance the human capital performance of these organisations.

Cindy received a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from the National University of Singapore.

Terence Hoon

Director - Finance

Terence is responsible for the overall finance control of LHUB^®. His primary responsibilities involve managing the Financial risks and planning, as well as financial reporting of performance and forecast to our Board of Directors.

He has 16 years of experience in regional financial management across various industries such as the logistics, manufacturing and IT.  He had work in China for four years with JDEdwards.  In his most recent position, Terence was with Keppel Logistics as a Financial Controller covering various Asian countries in areas of controllership, enterprise risk management, financial due diligence and Merger & Acquisition. He was in the board of director for two of the subsidiaries, Transware Distribution and Keppel Logistics Malaysia.

Terence received a Bachelor of Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University and his MBA from Calstate University, Hayward.

Richard Yap

Director - Operations Excellence

Richard is responsible for leading the quality and excellence initiatives, and improving the business processes and operational efficiency of the organisation.

With over 20 years of experience in general management and manufacturing, Richard has held senior management positions in various public-listed organisations, managing entire plants and operations located both locally and in the region, and actively leading many business improvement and quality initiatives.

He holds an MBA from Nanyang Technological University (Strategic Management), a Graduate Diploma in Marketing from the Marketing Institute of Singapore, an MSc in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the National University of Singapore and a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sheffield.

Kenneth Choo

Director – China Operations

Kenneth heads the China operations at NTUC LearningHub. His China team is charged with pioneering NTUC LearningHub's expansion into the China market, with the first milestone achieved in the setting-up of its Representative Office in Chengdu, Sichuan in 2010.

Kenneth has been in the education and training industry for more than fifteen years, with the last ten spent managing operations in various cities in China. Prior to joining NTUC LearningHub, he was a General Manager and Vice-President at Singapore PSB Academy, overseeing its Sino-Singapore education and training joint ventures. He also held managerial positions at Raffles Education Corporation and IE Singapore, in addition to teaching Geography at Singapore Chinese Girls' School.

Educated at National University of Singapore, Kenneth holds a Bachelor of Arts & Social Sciences (Hons) and also attained his Post-Graduate Diploma in Education from Nanyang Technological University.