Mr LIM Soon Hock

Managing Director / PLAN-B ICAG
Adjunct Prof / National University of Singapore
Mediator / SIMI / IMI / SMC / State Courts Singapore
Board Member / Director / Senior Advisor of Companies

Mr Lim Soon Hock has more than 30 years of experience as a board member, CEO, technopreneur and private investor, across various highly competitive industries in a global environment.

He is best known as the former Vice President and Managing Director of Compaq Computer Asia Pacific, for taking the company to US$1 billion from under US$30m – in just seven short years — in what was arguably the most difficult market in the world then.

Mr Lim is currently the Founder and Managing Director of PLAN-B ICAG Pte Ltd, a boutique corporate advisory firm. Post Compaq, he has been involved in taking companies public, M&As and consulting for several global MNCs and promising SMEs.

He continues to sit on the boards of several government agencies, public listed and private companies, as well as not-for-profit organisations.

Mr Lim spent more than 25 years in public service and community service in various appointments and chairmanships on a voluntary basis.

A Registered Professional Engineer and a Chartered Engineer, he is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers Singapore, Institution of Engineering and Technology UK, Academy of Engineering Singapore, Singapore Computer Society, Singapore Institute of Directors and Singapore Institute of International Arbitration.

Mr Lim received numerous awards in recognition of his work and public service. These include the Supercomputing Asia 2019 Singapore HPC Pioneer & Achievement Award, 2016 Outstanding Court Volunteer (Open Category as a Mediator), 2014 National Day Public Service Star; 2009 National Day Public Service Medal; 2012 President’s Award for Volunteerism from National Volunteerism and Philanthropy Centre; 2010 IES-IEEE Joint Medal of Excellence Award; 2010 Honorary Fellow of ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organisations; 2009 NUS Distinguished Alumni Service Award and 1992 NUS Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award.

He is the author of 3 books in the Vantage Views series, which is a collection of his thoughts on Contemporary Issues; Co-Editor and Author of “Golden Nuggets”, which is a collection of short stories by seniors based on their myriad life experiences and observations and author of “A Tortoise and The Mountain”, an allegory to inspire youths and adults on the virtues of toil, perseverance, humility and honour from the trials and tribulations of the tortoise in trying to conquer a mountain. All the proceeds from the sale of the 5 books were donated to charities”.