Ian Chye

Ian Chye
Chief Corporate Officer and Company Secretary

Ian is the Chief Corporate Officer and Company Secretary of the SATS Group. He oversees the Group’s legal and corporate secretariat, ethics and regulatory compliance, enterprise risk and sustainability functions. Additionally, he is responsible for corporate governance and, as Company Secretary, plays an essential role in Board functions and meetings, facilitating interactions between the Board and management.

In leading these functional and practice groups, he works in close partnership with the business and functional leaders of the Group, providing counsel on strategy, commercial activities and business affairs. He also leads legal advisory and execution of M&A, divestitures and investments globally for the Group.

Before assuming his current role, Ian served as the Group’s Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary.

Prior to SATS, Ian was General Counsel at a private equity firm based in Singapore, covering legal, corporate governance, compliance matters, M&A and venture capital activities worldwide. His career includes experience in both legal private practice and in-house leadership roles, with a focus on corporate advisory, public and private M&A, competition law, and structured finance. Ian has also served as counsel at Cargill across various business segments, eventually overseeing M&A activity in the Asia-Pacific region among other internal leadership roles. Prior to Cargill, he was in legal private practice at Ashurst LLP, based in London and eventually, Singapore.

Ian qualified as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore and is a non-practising member on the Rolls of Solicitors in England and Wales. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from University of Leeds, UK, a postgraduate diploma in Singapore law from National University of Singapore and a postgraduate diploma in economics for competition law from King’s College London, UK.