Our Leaders

Dennis Tan is the Chief Executive Officer of Prudential Singapore. At the Group level, he was also appointed Managing Director of the Strategic Business Group covering Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam since July 2022. In this role, Dennis is responsible for the business and operational results of the three markets.

A veteran banker, Dennis has 26 years of experience in consumer banking spanning product development, segment management, marketing and sales and distribution.

Prior to joining Prudential, Dennis was with OCBC Bank for 10 years, of which seven were spent leading a 3,100-strong consumer banking division as Head, Consumer Financial Services. Dennis also spearheaded the growth of OCBC’s Premier Banking business in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and China as Head of Branch and Group Premier Banking. He was also a member of OCBC Bank’s Management Committee.

He is also President in the Life Insurance Association’s Management Committee, Council Member at IBF Singapore, Multilateral Healthcare Insurance Committee Member at Ministry of Health Singapore, Board Director at the Council for Third Age and a Global Asia Insurance Partnership Advisory Council member.

Dennis is Singaporean. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business (Honours with Distinction) from Indiana University and has completed the Stanford Executive Programme at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He is a Certified Financial Planner.

Jackie Chew is Chief Risk Officer at Prudential Singapore. She oversees Enterprise Risk Management, Technology Risk Management, Compliance and Risk Analytics.

She is a trained accountant who has more than 21 years of work experience in insurance, asset management, investment banking and private banking.

Jackie joined Prudential in 2011 and has a distinguished career in various Prudential entities. Her most recent role was in Groupwide Internal Audit as Audit Director, Fund Management, Prudential Corporation Asia. Prior to that, Jackie was the Chief Executive Officer of Eastspring (Singapore) Investments. Her previous experience also includes roles at Merrill Lynch, ING Bank and PwC.

Jackie holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance (Merit) from the University of Leeds, UK and a Bachelor of Accountancy (Honours) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. A Singaporean, she is a certified public accountant and a fellow, Life Management Institute with Distinction, LOMA.

Goh Theng Kiat is Chief Customer Officer at Prudential Singapore. In his role, Theng Kiat champions customer-centricity across the organisation and is responsible for the delivery of a differentiated proposition and experience to our customers in both the retail and enterprise segments. He oversees Prudential Singapore’s customer strategy and initiatives, marketing and events.

Theng Kiat brings with him more than 26 years of marketing and business management experience across different industries, from FMCG to financial services. He is also Board Member at the European Chamber of Commerce in Singapore.

Prior to joining Prudential Singapore in August 2018, he was Chief Marketing Officer at the consumer arm of OCBC Bank Singapore, where he helped build its brand, product, customer segments and digital marketing practice. He has also held a number of regional and global responsibilities in marketing and innovation.

Theng Kiat is Singaporean and holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore.

Tomasz Kurczyk was appointed Chief Information Technology Officer of Prudential Singapore from 1 August 2022. He is responsible for the information technology functions of the company and leads our efforts to strengthen our digital capabilities.

Tomasz has over 17 years of experience across multiple industries and geographies building and growing business, products, and platforms to deliver tangible impact. He started his career in Poland as an entrepreneur before becoming a technology and strategy consultant. He has spent the last 10 years at AXA Group working across Europe, US and Asia with his last role as Chief Digital and Transformation Officer at AXA Insurance in Singapore.

Tomasz also actively participates in FinTech ecosystem development as Singapore FinTech Association’s Executive Committee Board Member and as Chairman of the Audit and InsurTech Committees.

Tomasz is Polish and holds a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, United States, as well as a Master of Science in Computer Systems from Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Neetha Nair is Chief Human Resources Officer of Prudential Singapore. She leads the people strategy and champions innovative people practices that drive sustainable performance for our people and business. She is passionate about building diverse high performing teams that are rooted in purpose and values, capability build and holistic wellbeing.

Prior to her current appointment, she was Head of Future Ready Workforce and led Prudential Singapore's efforts on acquiring and building future-ready skills, talent development and business partnering. She joined Prudential Singapore in February 2018 as Head, HR Centre of Excellence, and successfully led Talent Acquisition, Strategic Workforce Planning, Learning and Development, Talent Management, People Analytics, Total Rewards and Performance Management.

Neetha has over 19 years of experience as a HR practitioner and consultant across industries and geographies, specialising in large-scale business transformation, change management, embedding new and agile ways of working and talent management. Prior to Prudential, Neetha was a Director at PwC, Singapore and New Zealand, for 10 years and led the HR transformation practice.

Neetha is a Singapore PR and holds a Masters in Business Administration (Human Resources) and Bachelors in Sociology (Honours).

Andreas Rosenthal is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Prudential Singapore. He oversees Finance (Operations), Financial Reporting, Actuarial Financial Management, Actuarial Products and Advisory, Distribution Compensation and Analytics, Performance and Expense Management, Finance Projects and Transformation, and Procurement.

A finance and actuarial veteran with over 21 years of insurance industry experience, Andreas has held regional and local CFO roles in markets across Asia including Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines.

Prior to joining Prudential Singapore in January 2018, Andreas has served as CFO at AIA Philam Life and AIA Korea. He was also the regional CFO of Allianz till 2011. He is a Global Asia Insurance Partnership Board Member.

A qualified German Actuary, Andreas holds a Master’s Degree in Mathematics from the FU University of Berlin, Germany and a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Bielefeld, Germany.

Vikas Sinha was appointed Chief Operations Officer of Prudential Singapore from 1 August 2022. He is responsible for the life operations functions of the company including claims, new business and customer operations.

Prior to his appointment as Chief Operations Officer, Vikas led the Operational Excellence function within the Operations Division. As Head of Transformation – Customer Fulfilment, he was involved in delivering major operational transformation programmes including designing and rolling out the new Target Operating Model, digitalisation of operational processes through automation using AI and RPA and driving the culture of continuous improvement through Operational Excellence Academy.

Vikas has over 19 years of experience in the insurance industry working in various markets across Europe and Asia Pacific in the areas of Operations, Transformation and Digital. Prior to joining Prudential Singapore in 2019, Vikas was working with Generali Asia as Regional Head of Transformation and Operational Performance.

Vikas who hails from India, holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration in Finance and Bachelor in Computer Application. Vikas also holds a certification in Master Black Belt in Six Sigma from Indian Statistical Institute.

Ben Tan is Chief Distribution Officer at Prudential Singapore. In this role, he manages both agency and partnership distribution, driving performance, ensuring alignment of strategies across channels, and developing new partnerships to accelerate growth.

He is also Chief Corporate Development Officer and is responsible for Corporate Strategy, Change Management, Analytics, Business Assurance and Re-engineering, Enterprise Data Governance, Future Workplace as well as driving our innovation agenda.

Ben has more than 26 years of experience in the insurance industry, with roles spanning sales and marketing as well as channels development and management.

Prior to joining Prudential Singapore on 21 December 2020, Ben spent 13 years with Great Eastern Life (GE Life) where he was Head of Customer Acquisition, then Chief Distribution Officer and subsequently Managing Director. He was responsible for the development and implementation of the strategic plan and business initiatives for GE Life’s distribution channels in Singapore. He also provided governance oversight and regional support to the distribution teams in Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei.

Earlier in his career, Ben spent 12 years with AIA where he held multiple leadership roles in the General and Life insurance businesses, including being the Regional Director of Agencies.

Ben is Singaporean and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business from Indiana University.

John Chow is Chief Partnership Distribution Officer at Prudential Singapore. In this role, he oversees our partnership distribution business, particularly the strategic partnerships with UOB and SCB.

John has more than 16 years of partnership distribution experience in both the banking and insurance industry.

Prior to joining Prudential Singapore on 6 January 2021, John spent five years with Manulife, where he held various roles in regional partnerships, including leading performance management for the insurer’s regional DBS partnership. In his most recent role, John was based out of Kuala Lumpur as Chief Partnership Officer of Manulife Insurance Berhad (MIB) and Manulife Labuan International Limited (MILL). He was responsible for MIB’s exclusive bancassurance partnership with Alliance Bank Berhad and MILL’s omni-channel distribution strategy, including the exclusive bancassurance partnership with Standard Chartered Bank (Malaysia).

John was also with OCBC Bank for four years. In his last role as Head of Bancassurance, he developed and executed the strategies to grow the bancassurance business of OCBC and Great Eastern Life in Singapore.

John is Singaporean and holds a Master of Engineering in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College London as well as an Executive Diploma in board directorship from Singapore Management University – Singapore Institute of Directors.

Rom Lee was appointed Chief Agency Officer at Prudential Singapore from 1 September 2022. In his role, he manages our 5,000-strong agency force.

Rom is a Prudential veteran who has contributed to the company’s growth in both bancassurance and agency distribution since he joined Prudential Singapore in 2003.

He spent 12 of his 19 years in the company with the agency distribution team. Under his tenure as Head of Business Development and Head of Agency, the team has consistently attained high sales growth and increased agency productivity. He was instrumental in guiding the agency through the pandemic period, ensuring that digital technology such as remote advisory and servicing, new ways of working and safe management measures were adopted so our agency could continue to serve customers safely and effectively.

Rom joined Prudential fresh from school and has been with us ever since. Rom is Singaporean and holds a diploma in Mass Communications from Ngee Ann Polytechnic and is a SMU-AXSI Digital Finance Leader.

Liauw Lee Jiat is Chief Actuary at Prudential Singapore and was appointed the Appointed Actuary on 22 February 2021. In this role, she provides strategic direction and leadership across the Corporate Actuarial, Actuarial Pricing and Distribution Compensation functions.

Lee Jiat has held various roles in the Finance division since joining Prudential in 2013. As the Head of Distribution Compensation & Analytics, she led her team to revamp and implement the compensation structure for the Agency force to increase productivity. During her appointment as Head, Business Finance, she oversaw Finance Business Partnerships, Finance Performance Management, Distribution Compensation & Analytics and Finance Sales Reporting.

With close to two decades of experience in the Finance and Actuarial Field, Lee Jiat was previously the Head of Capital Management & MCEV Reporting and Appointed Actuary (HK) at Aviva, and the Head of Pricing and Product Development for Bancassurance Channel at Great Eastern Life.

Lee Jiat is Singaporean. A qualified Actuary, she graduated with a Bachelor of Business (Actuarial Science) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.