Allen J Pathmarajah – Vistage Chair Profile

ALLEN is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and Fellow of the Marketing Institute of Singapore.

He has extensive experience in Financial Services, Industry and Management Consultancy in England, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia.

He was for over 22 years with the Oversea – Chinese Banking Corporation Group (OCBC). Initially, for over 10 years (May 1973 to September 1983) as Executive Director of Specialists Services Pte Ltd (Management Consultancy Company of the Group) and concurrently, Special Assistant to the Group Chairman. Thereafter for over 12 years (October 1983 to February 1996), he was with Great Eastern Life Assurance Co Ltd as General Manager and subsequently, as Managing Director. He continued as a Director until May 1998.

He is:
- Executive Chairman of AJP Advisers Pte Ltd (Business Advisers focused on Organisational Transformation through Leadership Development, Strategic and Financial Management) and Business Thinking Systems (Singapore) Pte Ltd (Business Coaching)
- Chairman of CSA Holdings Ltd, Eutech Cybernetics Pte Ltd, Medi-Projects Pte Ltd, Stewardship Capital Pte Ltd, Encore Technologies (S) Pte Ltd and Automated Systems Holdings Ltd (Hong Kong).
- Director of CSA Bhd (Malaysia)
- Adjunct Professor at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University.

He is Chairman of Singapore Professionals’ and Executives’ Co-operative (SPEC) and Member of:
- Marketing Institute of Singapore – Senate.
- Board of Governors, Sales Academy.
- Board of Advisors of the International Association of Business and Economics Students (Aiesec International).
- Income Tax Board of Review, Singapore.
- Resource Panel in the Government Parliamentary Committee (Finance, Trade & Industry)

He is Past President of the Life Insurance Association (Singapore) and former member of the:
- Board of Directors of the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association, Inc. USA (LIMRA) – first South East Asian.
- Board of Directors of Life Office Management Association, Inc. USA (LOMA) – first non-American.
- Asean Insurance Council.
- Board of Governors of Singapore Insurance Institute.
- Board of Directors & Governing Council of Singapore College of Insurance Ltd.
- Governing Council of the Singapore Institute of Management.
- Board of Directors of several Companies – Finance, Trustee, Property, Hotel, Industrial and Management Consultancy.
- MBA Advisory Committee, School of Accountancy & Business, Nanyang Technological University.
- Tribunal for the Maintenance of Parents, Singapore.
- Manpower 21: Singapore’s National Manpower Plan
- Member of Steering Committee.
- Chairman of Manpower Industry Committee.

He speaks on Leadership and various management topics to business and public sectors. He was a main platform speaker at conferences in several countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the United States of America, England and Ireland.

Allen has been associated with TEC since Oct 2003 as an accredited TEC Chair after having attended the intensive Chair training course.