{"id":15894,"date":"2021-06-29T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/29\/era-singapore-appoints-marcus-chu-as-new-chief-executive-officer\/"},"modified":"2021-06-29T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T03:00:00","slug":"era-singapore-appoints-marcus-chu-as-new-chief-executive-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/29\/era-singapore-appoints-marcus-chu-as-new-chief-executive-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"ERA Singapore Appoints Marcus Chu as New Chief Executive Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               Jack Chua will remain as Executive Chairman of APAC Realty                             <\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media&#13;<br \/>\nOutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 29 June 2021 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.com.sg\/\">ERA Realty Network<\/a> (ERA Singapore) today announced&#13;<br \/>\nthat it will be promoting Mr Marcus Chu to chief executive officer (CEO) with&#13;<br \/>\neffect from 1 July 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/release.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/Images\/Thumb\/500x0\/159593\/ERA.jpg#image-159593\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>(From left to right): Mr Marcus Chu and Mr Jack Chua<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Marcus is currently chief operating&#13;<br \/>\nofficer (COO) of the leading real estate agency and has been with the agency&#13;<br \/>\nfor over 20 years. Current CEO Mr Jack Chua will continue to provide strategic&#13;<br \/>\nleadership and have overall executive responsibility for the company&#8217;s business&#13;<br \/>\nas Executive Chairman.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The separation of the Chairman and&#13;<br \/>\nChief Executive Officer roles will enhance APAC Realty&#8217;s corporate governance,&#13;<br \/>\nallowing for effective oversight by the Board of Directors of the business in&#13;<br \/>\nthe best interest of the Company and its shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Bringing over 25 years of real&#13;<br \/>\nestate experience to lead trusted advisers into a new ERA<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Prior to his current role as COO, Marcus&#13;<br \/>\nhad amassed extensive experience in real estate sales and team building. He&#13;<br \/>\nfirst joined ERA Singapore in 1996 and achieved stellar results by clinching&#13;<br \/>\nTop Achiever positions locally and internationally. With over two decades of&#13;<br \/>\nreal estate experience under his belt, he has been steadfast in driving&#13;<br \/>\noperational efficiency across the organisation, rejuvenating the sales teams,&#13;<br \/>\ninnovating products, and enhancing service levels to ensure that the business&#13;<br \/>\ndelivers on the ERA brand promise of service excellence and results. For his&#13;<br \/>\nnew role as CEO, he will be taking over the helm of the Singapore headquarters&#13;<br \/>\nand overseeing the business operations as well as day-to-day management of ERA&#13;<br \/>\nSingapore.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am grateful to serve at ERA,&#8221;&#13;<br \/>\nsays Marcus. &#8220;As CEO, I will continue to further the great work of my&#13;<br \/>\npredecessor, Mr Jack Chua. Standing on the shoulders of giants, I will set&#13;<br \/>\nforth to realise my vision for ERA Singapore \u2014 to be Asia&#8217;s leading Real Estate&#13;<br \/>\nAgency by providing evolutionary solutions and services to our clients. I will&#13;<br \/>\nalso seek to build a culture that attracts top-tier talents and one where every&#13;<br \/>\nERA trusted adviser can excel.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Jack will remain as the Executive&#13;<br \/>\nChairman of APAC Realty. His responsibilities as Executive Chairman include driving expansion and opportunities in the region. To&#13;<br \/>\nensure a smooth transition, he will provide guidance to Marcus, passing his&#13;<br \/>\ninstitutional knowledge and expertise on to the latter. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ERA Singapore is a strong believer&#13;<br \/>\nin succession planning,&#8221; says Jack. &#8220;The time is now ripe for me to step down&#13;<br \/>\nas CEO; and today&#8217;s leadership transition is testament to the success of our&#13;<br \/>\nstrategic succession planning programme which seeks to develop and elevate the&#13;<br \/>\nnext generation of leaders from our internal talent pool. A visionary in his&#13;<br \/>\nown right, Marcus is full of ideas on how to grow and strengthen the ERA brand,&#13;<br \/>\nespecially in a post-pandemic climate. Courageous yet humble, resilient yet&#13;<br \/>\nflexible, Marcus will certainly lead ERA Singapore to greater heights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Management Team of ERA Singapore\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Among the senior management team in&#13;<br \/>\nERA Singapore is Ms Doris Ong, who is COO of project marketing. Projects have&#13;<br \/>\nalways been an integral part of ERA&#8217;s core businesses. Under the leadership of&#13;<br \/>\nDoris, the team has planned and executed transformative marketing launches for&#13;<br \/>\nover 300 international and local residential projects.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Despite being the only female in&#13;<br \/>\nERA&#8217;s senior management team, Doris has led strategic partnerships and boasted&#13;<br \/>\nstrong relationship with developers while solidifying new opportunities to&#13;<br \/>\nexpand ERA&#8217;s market share. Graduating with a BSc in Estate Management from NUS,&#13;<br \/>\nDoris is also a licensed appraiser and a member of the Singapore Institute of&#13;<br \/>\nSurveyors and Valuers.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Among the many market-first&#13;<br \/>\ninitiatives spearheaded by Doris include Singapore&#8217;s largest virtual property&#13;<br \/>\ngallery Project 360 and the hosting of Singapore&#8217;s largest virtual real estate&#13;<br \/>\nconsumer show both in 2020 and this year, 2020 ERA Property Weekend and ERA&#13;<br \/>\nProperty Mega Show 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The COO designate of agency&#13;<br \/>\nbusiness is Mr Thomas Tan. On 1 July 2021, Thomas will officially join the management&#13;<br \/>\nteam to oversee the alignment of operations and to elevate the professional&#13;<br \/>\ncompetence of fellow professionals through impactful training and development programmes,&#13;<br \/>\nas well as digital initiatives. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>An accomplished leader in the real&#13;<br \/>\nestate industry, Thomas boasts 18 years of industry experience, going from&#13;<br \/>\nbeing a salesperson to Key Executive Officer of his own agency. He is very&#13;<br \/>\npassionate about training and has been providing training for the real estate&#13;<br \/>\nsalesperson and continuous professional development courses from 2011, sharing&#13;<br \/>\nhis knowledge to over 11,000 learners.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Thomas was also the President of&#13;<br \/>\nthe Singapore Estate Agents Association, where he worked closely with the&#13;<br \/>\nregulators, industry leaders and property agents to raise the bar of&#13;<br \/>\nprofessionalism in estate agency work in Singapore. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am honored to join an&#13;<br \/>\nexceptional management team at ERA Singapore, an organisation that believes in&#13;<br \/>\nthe importance of lifelong training and career development,&#8221; says Thomas. &#8220;I&#13;<br \/>\naim to empower our trusted advisers through rigorous and continuous training.&#13;<br \/>\nBy raising the overall competency of the agents, I hope to also bring&#13;<br \/>\nsignificant change to the real estate industry, one where every agent is&#13;<br \/>\nknowledgeable, honest and sincere.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that professional&#13;<br \/>\ncustomer service is a cornerstone of any successful business,&#8221; says Marcus. &#8220;Training&#13;<br \/>\nand development have always been the key to grooming our agents to become&#13;<br \/>\nprofessional trusted advisers. With his vast experience and network, I am&#13;<br \/>\nconfident Thomas will propel ERA&#8217;s training arm to a higher level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are delighted to bolster our management&#13;<br \/>\nteam with the addition of Thomas. We look forward to working closely with him&#13;<br \/>\nto improve our market position and elevate the calibre of our advisers, so that&#13;<br \/>\nthey can achieve even greater success,&#8221; adds Doris. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Press&#13;<br \/>\nkit link:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/ukutdelyi1h30dh\/AAC8DmNU0-zDrJw89JwAcbcBa?dl=0\"><img style=\"margin-right: 7px;vertical-align: middle;display: inline-block !important;width: 24px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/Release\/templates\/images\/socialMedia\/iconfinder_19_social_2609551.png\"\/>https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/ukutdelyi1h30dh\/AAC8DmNU0-zDrJw89JwAcbcBa?dl=0<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-06-29\/83895\/era-singapore-appoints-marcus-chu-as-new-chief-executive-officer\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Chua will remain as Executive Chairman of APAC Realty SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0Media&#13; OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 29 June 2021 &#8211;\u00a0ERA Realty Network (ERA Singapore) today announced&#13; that it will be promoting Mr Marcus Chu to chief executive officer (CEO) with&#13; effect from 1 July 2021. &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; (From left to right): Mr Marcus Chu and Mr &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}