News Broadcasting
Tony Lai new MediaCorp MD, Experiences and Outreach
New Delhi, 22 May: Tony Lai has been appointed Managing Director, Experiences and Outreach, for MediaCorp from 3 June 2013, according to the announcement in Singapore.
In his new appointment, Tony will report to MediaCorp CEO Shaun Seow, looking after events, out-of-home, retail and business-to-consumer businesses.
Tony started his career with the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and moved on to various public and private sector roles, before re-joining STB as its Assistant CEO in 2009. Prior to his re-appointment at STB, he was Managing Director of The Idea Factory, an innovation-focused strategy consulting business.
Earlier, MediaCorp’s Suat Jien Lim, Managing Director, Television, had resigned with effect from 7 April. Her resignation came a year after she assumed the MD role, increasing her portfolio of Channel 5 and okto to overseeing programming and promotions for the entire portfolio of free-to-air channels under the broadcaster – Channels 5, 8, U, okto, Suria, and Vasantham; with the exclusion of the news channel Channel NewsAsia.
